INTRODUCTION
The establishment of the Publishing and Printing Centre is the result of the restructuring of the Educational Technology Centre and the Publishing Office in 1999. In its early days, this centre was known as the Publishing and Educational Technology Centre and was later renamed as the Publishing and PRINTING centre in 2003. This centre consists of five divisions, which are Editorial (UKM Publisher), Printing, Multimedia, Corporate and Marketing, and Development and Training. However, in 2005, it was decided in the University Management Meeting to reorganise these five divisions into three divisions, namely the Editorial Division, the Multimedia Division and the Printing Division.
Roles of the Centre
- To plan and establish the university publishing and printing rules.
- To function as the academic and university printing centre.
- To provide filming and video production as well as official affairs photographic services to the university.
- To publish items such as books, periodicals, souvenirs, proceedings, promotional and publicity items as well as a variety of other publications.
- To market and display academic and university publications.
Mission
To form an organisation that channels and disseminates a corpus of aboriginal knowledge and the established and effective Bangi way of thinking that are appropriate to the current challenges of globalisation through publishing.
Vision
To be the leader in academic publishing and university publishing in the world of academic communication
Aim
To reinforce Malaysiana aboriginal knowledge as well as the Malay Language as a language of knowledge through its academic and university publications. |
