IQRA': JURNAL PERPUSTAKAAN DAN INFORMASI

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Authors: Siti Zubaidah

Nowdays , its not era that library is claimed as “place of book warehouse”,dusty and discard place for people who incurred by punishment. Library have the very meaning role,if it is managed and developed better will give the positive impact for intellegence and life of the Nation. The availability of knowledge in library with the modern form, giving opportunity to customers to develop their intelligence by themselves. A library will be able to properly if managed according to method going into effect. That method is according to library science, and other similar science like management

22-30

Authors: Abdul Karim Batubara

Today, in the 2090s, no individual scholar or research group can work without a librarian as a collaborator. Library science is now a track of the advanced degree in every discipline. It is a track taken by people very much like those who once migrated from academic fields into librarianship, but the name librarian now designates not so much a separate profession as a type of scholar. While every scholar and scientist learns how to use information in the creation of new ideas and new information and while each masters a very substantial body of information, the librarian-scholar or scientist is the discz~linary information specialist. [The librarianj is the eyes and ears of the research community, constantly surveying and mapping the information universe for colleagues. Librarians are the ones who know how to find and use the most up-to-date version of scholarly resources, how long these resources are likely to maintain their current shape and content, and how the process of change works. the corps of librarians . . . live in departments and research laboratories and have absorbed many of the duties that used to be performed by computer consultants as well as reference librarians. Their names are to be found among the authors of most publications.”

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Authors: Muhammad Irwan Padli Nasution

It’s clear that taking the information and data by using the internet can facilitate the mankind to communicate with others around the world fastly. This development of technology had an effect on society in their socio-cultural and ethic. One of the biggest problem of using internet as a medium of information is the security of it’s informations and data. This problem can take the priority when it’s related to current needs. And it’s very necessary to secure internet data and information from bugging, stealing, and damaging.

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Authors: Fatimah Zuhrah

Islam has a big attention toward science and knowledge. It’s shown in Islamic library in the golden age. Historically, Islamic library in Islamic golden age much contributed to European world. In this Era, Islamic library not only as center of information but also as center of excellent around the world.

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Authors: Dedi Irawan Tsabit

In most of university, a Library known as “a central of the information”. Because all of the library materials can inform many news, data and information. And so that library called as a part of educational facility. As the center of the information, library not only provide the facility and process, but library also can give the support and motivation in improving educational quality.

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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.