Proceedings of the 2nd Yogyakarta International Conference on Educational Management/Administration and Pedagogy (YICEMAP 2019)

The Ability to Manage Information among Librarians of Senior High Schools in Bantul Regency to Support Information Literacy Program

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Tina Rahmawati
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Tina Rahmawati
Available Online 22 December 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201221.049How to use a DOI?
Keywords
information utilization, information literacy program
Abstract

The rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) demands an active role from librarians to obtain, utilize and to meet the user’s information needs. Consequently, the librarians should be equipped with information literacy. This study aims at describing the librarian’s ability to utilize the information needed by users in the senior high schools of Bantul Regency. This research can be categorized as quantitative descriptive. The population in this study was the school librarians in Bantul Regency. The questionnaire was distributed to collect the data, while the content validity was used to test the validity of the data. The data were analyzed descriptively with percentages. The research findings showed that the librarian ability in utilizing information gained the percentage of 89.96% which can be categorized as “very high” or “very good”. The activities of information utilization consisted of processing, accessing, clarifying, sorting, classifying and summarizing information needed by users. Meanwhile, to optimize the school information literacy program, the librarian should be completed with hard skills (technical knowledge and information technology) and soft skills (interpersonal and communication skills.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd Yogyakarta International Conference on Educational Management/Administration and Pedagogy (YICEMAP 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
22 December 2020
ISBN
978-94-6239-308-0
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201221.049How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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