Back in January 2008 I was asked by the Chief Librarian of the International
Islamic University Malaysia Library (IIUM Library) to head the Law
Information Section of the Library. Up to that year, which was my twelfth
year as a librarian, law had been one of the subjects that I had avoided
learning. I knew the complexity and specialization of the subjects and its
multitude of collections. I felt that if I did not use the subject on a
regular basis, I would easily forget what I learned. Even though skeptical
of my own ability to head the department, I took the job to challenge
myself, to learn more about the subject and above all to prove to myself how
wrong I was about the subject.