National Library of Indonesia work together with Batam Authority

Batam Island - Director of National Library of Indonesia Dady P. Rachmananta signed an MoU with Chairman of Authority of Industrial Development Batam Island Mustopa Wijaya, on Friday (8/8) at Marketing Center Batam Authority Office. According to Head of Secretariat Bureau Gani Lasa, the signature of MoU was aimed to strengthen the cooperation being built, since authority is preparing a representative library."Currently we have 2052 collection which were collected from some units within the office," he said. Furthermore, Gani lasa said that by this agreement with National Library of Indonesia, we hoped this library could become a gateway to develop human resources at Authority office, and in the future become a public library to serve all Batam Island people. "We intentionally made an agreement with National Libraryh since library experts are there, so library standard could have minimal error" he added.

Chairman of Authority Mustopa Wijaya very grateful of library development in his office, since library will contribute more variation to the duty and function of authority office in broaden the horizon and other information needs. "In line with this library development, I also instructed to all officers and staffs who have an offsite visits out of town, must bring some books, 2 minimal to be stored at the library," he reminded. Mustopa also hoped at the 37th anniversary of Batam Authority on 26 October 2008 the library has been established.

Meanwhile Director of National Library of Indonesia said that through this agreement library standard will comply with the regulations."since cataloging has its own standard, for example catalog card, the standard size is 12.5 cm x 7.5 cm in all country", he said. so National Library very grateful with the agreement initiated by the authority office and fully supporting the development of library in this island. "this is in line with the movement which was inaugurated by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on 17 May 2006, i.e the movements of library empowerment in the society," he revealed. Beside that, Dady hoped in the future the Authority`s library could become a public library, since public library has a wider service scope, because a special library will only serving the authorities` employee. "I also hoped after the library has been established, the book acquisition would be faster, since we know that library users expecting new books, just like a book store. it`s just according to President decree No.80, books are assets so the acquisition must through a bidding. where in fact books are the blood of library just like medicine for hospital or ammunition for soldiers.

the MoU signature was continued by a presentation of library policy by Deputy of Library Resources Development Supriyanto, and a presentation of information technology for library by Head of automation sub division Joko Santoso. The signature of MoU was attended by Head of Center of Library Development and Reading Interest Research T. Syamsul Bahri, Head of Division of Special and Public Library Development Sri Sumekar, Head of Division of Library Cooperation and Automation Dina Isyanti, Head of TU Deputy II Sub Division Markus Tendean and Head of Public Relation sub division Agus Sutoyo.