The Court’s Center for Research, Case Review, and Library Management (Puslitka) disseminating the use of library system, e-books, and National Library services, Monday (11/28/2022). Photo by MKRI/Panji.

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Monday, November 28, 2022 | 17:08 WIB

JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court’s Center for Research, Case Review, and Library Management (Puslitka) disseminated the use of library system, e-books, and National Library services on Monday, November 28, 2022 both on site and virtually from the Court’s library on the third floor of the second building. Around eighty staff members joined the event, where the National Library’s (Perpusnas) head of the Center for Library Information Service and Management of National Manuscripts Agus Sutoyo, intermediate librarians Atis Taufik Abdul Rahman and Faizal Ardyanto, and computer officer Didik Pribadi delivered their presentations.

Head of Puslitka Kurniasih Panti Rahayu said in her opening remarks that in 2003 the Court already had a library as a learning facility for all employees. Since 2006, the Court has been developing library services through supporting applications.

Kurniasih hoped that this event would help optimize the Court’s library’s services, which are not only geared for expert assistants to constitutional justices but also for the general public who need literature on law, the judiciary, the Constitution, and constitutional rights. 

Literacy More Than Just Reading

The head of the Center for Library Information Service and Management of National Manuscripts Agus Sutoyo explained in his presentation that literacy awareness should be able to change the people’s paradigm. Initially only understood as only relating to reading habits, literacy should be understood more broadly to include its impacts on improving social welfare. In other words, library must be able to provide benefits to the community beyond its collections, by teaching skills.

“The National Library has a role as a community learning center and a national library center, so it must improve its function in transforming digital literacy services, for example, by visiting villages and networking with the Ministry of Communication and Informatics so that services can run quickly,” he explained.

He also hoped the Court’s library collections will not only used by the employees but also the general public. This, he said, is the point of improving literacy awareness, which can also produce goods and services that can motivate people in all walks of life.

“High literacy helps us filter hoaxes and be more responsible in searching for information on the internet,” he explained.

Agus revealed that membership registration of the National Library can be done 24 hours a day online via through its website. Currently, its membership is based on NIK so member card holders throughout Indonesia can take access collections of other libraries that are members of the SAKTI card program. As such, members of the National Library do not need to re-register with those libraries as they need only to register with the National Library or those libraries.

Digital Collections

Next, Atis Taufik Abdul Rahman explained how to use the public digital collections in the National Library. He also revealed the National Library’s digital services such as K-OL (online membership); Ipusnas mobile digital library services; IOS (Indonesia One Search by the National Library); and E-RES (subscription of digital collections).

“Through the National Library membership, members can make physical loans, use various existing facilities at the National Library, access digital collections, and can even be awarded best library user annually,” he explained.

In the second session, there were presentations on the Constitutional Court’s library services, system (Inlislite), and e-book use, as well as an announcement of the library’s best user. In between the presentations, quizzes were given to refresh the participants’ memory of the information they received. 

Writer        : Sri Pujianti
Editor        : Nur R.
Translator  : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

Translation uploaded on 12/8/2022 10:56 WIB

Disclaimer: The original version of the news is in Indonesian. In case of any differences between the English and the Indonesian versions, the Indonesian version will prevail.

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