IQRA': JURNAL PERPUSTAKAAN DAN INFORMASI

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Authors: Imran Benawi

The main consent of library is an information center for which it bears its functions of education, recreation, and research. In this article, the author explains that to carry out its function the library works in managing and organizing all resources of information of any format. He also underlines the importance of making a network among libraries and other information centers to cooperate their resources for the purpose of providing a wider unbound access to the community. He maintains that this is especially true in the information and globalization era of today if one does not want to be isolated from the information society. However, given the various kinds of library, each library has to work in line with its main function to keep up with the new development of information technology.

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Authors: Nuromas Hasibuan

Reading is an activity of searching for information. Through reading we can dig into an understanding of world life. Reading habits begin when one starts his or her schooling. In the following chapters the author explains how reading habits can be a way of overcoming depression of living in 21st century.

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Authors: ABDUL KARIM BATUBARA

Information society evolved from the development of mass communication. TV, radio, newspaper, to mention some have played a great role in teaching the society to be information literat. Although there is a reciprocal influence between the society and the mass communication, both take merits each other in which the society learn from the mass communication while the mass communication develops from the social change. In the following topics, the author will discuss this subject from various perspectives.

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Authors: Triana Santi

Library has long been known as a non profit organization in which it is not supposed to raise any income to support its services. However, facing the fact that most library need financial support to proceed some activities that are not covered by government funding, library needs to generate its own income to act more freely. In this article, the author offers a modern business strategy to carry out the library. She suggests that library need to apply a marketing strategy to publicize its services to the community. While introducing it with the history of marketing in the library context, she also elaborates in more detail the scope of services in the library that can be marketed and raise a profit. Emphasizing on the term of not for profit, however, she affirms that the profits earned should be used to support library services or collection development, not for personal income

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Authors: M. Dahlan

Reading, without question, has been believed as the way of opening the windows of the world. Therefore, it must be nurtured from very early age as it is not a given talents brought from birth. Along with this, there have been a lot of efforts to improve one’s interest in reading to make it as a habit. Many articles and researches from different fields of study have been written to find out the best way of developing motivation to read. In this article, the author would like to emphasize the role of library in the efforts of improving reading interest of its users. To do that, library should consider some aspects that might influence one’s interest in reading. Although this topic has long been introduced, the discussion remains interesting as lack of motivation in reading is still prevalent in many people, including students.