Penguatan Jaringan Perpustakaan (Network Library) Sebagai Unsur Potensial dalam Meningkatkan Akses Layanan Perpustakaan Bagi Mahasiswa Universitas Terbuka

Abstract

Open University (UT) as a college long distance education has special characteristics within the learning system. Students and faculty are not intensively meet face-to-face every day. Assisted students in learning systems through a wide range of media that contains the lecture material. Variety of this medium as a means of learning includes, program computer assisted instruction (CAI), cleaning lib, audio-video, program-lbs sky tv channels, tv feature, radio feature. As a college concept Newspapers, there are different characteristics also in library services. Conventional college students can directly visit the library chooses, borrow library collections, but it also students can access all the collections atupun book collection over the internet. Conventional statistical data library visitors also showed a very high rating. While UT as distance education, students have limited access to the library collection off line / direct physical visits to the library. Because students are scattered throughout the country, and some live in other countries, practical collections that can be enjoyed direct visits by students who were in the location of Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi (Jabodetabek.). Descriptive study with qualitative approach aims to identify the strengthening of the network library as an effort to improve access to library services for UT as a student library services for students Newspapers. With source data from UT students, librarians, and secondary data sources in the form of documentation and access to the collections of statistical data shows that the strengthening of the UT library network is indispensable for students. Among strengthening FKP2TN library network, Aspika (Association of organizers of Higher Education Library and Information Science Indonesia). This is to overcome the limitations of off line student access to the UT libraries while improving the quality of learning.