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Jumlah mahasiswa disebuah perguruan tinggi adalah seiring sejalan dengan tuntutan penyediaan jasa layanan informasi dari pengguna perpustakaan. Kebutuhan akan informasi bisa datang dari siapa saja dan kapan saja. Perpustakaan akhirnya diminta untuk senantiasa siap menghadapi pertanyaan dari penggunanya. Akan lebih baik pula apabila perpustakaan dapat menyediakan sebuah media yang cukup mudah dan sederhana yang dapat digunakan mahasiswa untuk menghubungi staf perpustakaan. Media telepon atau penyediaan meja referensi adalah hal yang umum ditawarkan perpustakaan untuk berhubungan dengan penggunanya. Namun kini dijaman serba digital ditengarai mulai banyak mahasiswa yang memanfaatkan menggunakan sumber-sumber informasi yang tersedia di dunia web. Fenomena online adalah fenomena menarik yang dapat dimanfaatkan oleh perpustakaan untuk berinteraksi dengan penggunanya. Salah satunya dengan cara chat online atau chatting. Aplikasi chatting sudah digunakan di beberapa perpustakaan univer...

As a manager you need to have a mission and vision for your organisation. Therefore you need to have strategic planning to achieve those goals. It is the responsible of manager to design all of that stuff and make sure everything are running as expected. Clare asked us to read sample of strategic planning of Brisbane state library, UQ library, and Ports Philip library before class begun. They're all come from different type of libraries therefore they have different mission and different strategic planning depend on the users they serviced. Class were divided into groups of 4 and each of them discusses articles given. I myself chose UQ library which is an academic library. The second topic discussed by Clare was Organisational Culture. As many diversity in a organisation or company or institution a manager need to understand the organisation by applying local culture in the organisation. Strategic planning articles: 1. McNicol, Sarah (2005) "The challenge...

Kim invited Julienne, a Document Delivery Service of QUT Library. She was our guest lecturer last night and she talked about document delivery service as a general and also specifically in QUT library. She started her presentation with the history of doc delivery and information searching which using card catalogue and the the document was books or journal asticles. In conclusion the class believe that the document delivery service will be exist in future times even library users can searching an information online because not all information will be online as not every books will digitized. The next activity was reflecting game. We were grouped into 4 and each group have a piece of paper or two with topics we've been discussed such as Metadata, digital library, access subsystems, etc. Each topic has key point and uncertainties and each groups should put anything that need to be discussed whether in 'key point' or in 'uncertainities'. Reading : Tedd, L. A., ...

The purpose of the view had been given by the guest lecturer was to give an overview about the reference job in the library  and how could it be achieved. The next session, Jenny, our lecturer lead an activity and fire up ideas about what is reference jobs and how we could illustrate the reference librarian. Four groups in the class illustrated the reference librarian as a person who is user friendly, accessible 24/7, my group wrote www.reference.com, while the other drawed a person with earth in his mind. A reference librarian is the one who know about their resources well in order to give a correct info to their clients. This activity lead us to ideas what we should prepare and do to be a competent reference librarian. Another activity given by Jenny was discussing job description of librarians from some unis and institutions. Many are high level position, people here call it Band 4 or level 5. It's very usefull to know and analyse the job description and requirements from pa...

I have been here in oz for 2months. But the real adventure has just begun this week. First, my course has been started on Monday Feb 25th, continued yesterday in a big lecture class. It was attended more than hundred students at that time!. My first class was a bit shocking to me. They're all bule, and for me it seems different with the IAP. I felt more confident at IAP.I think that because we're all international students and English is not our first language. The tutors were also speak not in their normal speed. But in Monday class, when only 3 asian students, here they are, the real English was came to the surface. My second day of lecture was a bit different. I felt better on that day. This might be I was in big class and lots more international students. The second reason is I know some people already. It feels good when you have friends in a new place, I discover. And today, another day exciting day is started. I bought a new bike last week. After struggling bringin...

Have been there in oz for 2 months. But the real adventure has just begun the week after. My first lecturer actually was started on Monday Feb 25th. The 2nd one was a big class. Attended more than hundred students!. My first class was a bit shocking to me. They're all bule!!... and for me it seems different with the IAP. I felt more confident at IAP.I think that because we're all international students and English is not our first language. The tutors were also speak not in their normal speed. But in Monday class, when only 3 asian students, here they are, the real English skills appear to the surface. My second day of lecture was a bit different. I felt better on that day. This might be I was in big class and lots more international students. The second reason is I know some people already. It feels good when you have friends in a new place, I discover. And today, another day exciting day is started. I bought a new bike last week. After struggling bringing my bike to be ...

Mendesain events untuk Study Centre, perpustakaan dimana saya bekerja, bukanlah hal baru. Ini sudah kami lakukan sejak tahun 2004 dimana saya mulai bekerja. Events yang berjalan secara berkesinambungan selama ini adalah Movie Night dan Discussion Club . Kami biasanya sibuk mencari English native speaker alias bule untuk memfasilitasi acara Discussion Club (DC) ini. Dan ini bukan pekerjaan yang sulit, karena para native speaker cukup kooperatif untuk diajak bekerja sama.  Namun khusus term ini peraturan yang kami bikin beda. Fasilitator tidak harus seorang bule, tapi staff Study Centre pun juga bisa (atau wajib) menjadi salah satu partisipan. Dan kemaren malam adalah bagian saya untuk memfasilitasi DC dengan topik "Is Indonesia's Traditional Culture under threat?" Topik yang menarik kah?.....hehe....bisa iya bisa tidak... Pertama kali yang saya lakukan adalah memberikan tontonan tentang kekayaan alam dan budaya Indonesia yang saya download dari Youtube. Video ...