Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) Information Resource Centre nicknamed IRC was established in July 1997 as a support centre for academic activities of the university. Housing an approximately 210,000 volumes of items, the collection comprises of a wide variety of printed and non-printed materials ranging from books, periodicals, in-house reports, audiovisuals and multimedia. The collection also includes an expanding range of electronic resources such as interactive CD-ROMs, e-books, e-journal and online databases. With intent focus on the field of engineering and technology, IRC aims to provide adequate and up-to-date knowledge and resources to cater for the increasing demands of the clientele, which has different levels of information needs either for their research, self-teaching or multi-learning environment. In line with the rapid IT development, IRC is committed to incorporate high-tech and up-to-date IT infrastructure. At present, IRC is equipped with integrated library system known as Symphony by SirsiDynix which promote efficient retrieval of information thus enables users to explore not only resources at IRC but also from all PETRONAS Group-wide Resource Centres.
