UNAIR NEWS 鈥撀聽held a seminar on 鈥淪trengthening Digital Libraries in Improving Library Services鈥 on Thursday, October 6, 2022.聽聽librarians聽at Dharmawangsa-B Campus, was a manifestation of UNAIR Library鈥檚 commitment to transformation in the digital era.
The Head of UNAIR Library, Suhernik SSos MSi, opened the seminar with a warm welcome. Then, it was continued with a presentation by Hendro Margono SSos MSc PhD, a lecturer in Information and Library Science FISIP UNAIR and Dr. Taufiq A Gani SKom MEngSC, the Head of Data and Information Center of Indonesian National Library.
Looking at Digital Library development
Technological disruption encourages changes in people’s perspectives on accessing information. One of them is related to the use of library services which are now turning to digital forms.
Taufiq said that nowadays, people, especially the millennial generation, prefer to read聽e-books聽rather than printed books because there is a聽quick reference聽feature that can make their work easier.聽Other changes also include reader preferences for the type and content of books, publishing methods, and use of library applications.
鈥淒igital library services must transform its collection provision, including web archiving and聽e-resources.聽Now library materials are obtained through interoperability, so developing library collections does not have to be from physical books or聽e-books聽we have, but from interoperability how we get the metadata and know where the books are,鈥 he said.
Taufiq believed it is a challenge for libraries to initiate new innovations and for the librarians as the manager.聽“Not only聽managing聽collections, librarians need to be able to聽manage聽knowledge and knowledge transfer activities,” said the lecturer of Syiah Kuala University.
Utilization of Data Science
The development of digital libraries can take advantage of big data scientific data to identify user needs patterns. According to Hendro, data science is multidisciplinary because it combines statistics, mathematics, and other sciences with specific expertise.
He also explained various kinds of data science techniques that can be used to find data patterns and attain new information. Scientific data is utilised in digital library services, for example, in an open-source system.
In addition, there is an聽association rules聽(AS) analysis method that can be used as a library dataset.聽“You can use any methods, the important thing is that the聽user聽must know what to do and the flow of thinking from analyzing big data,” he said.
Author: Sela Septi Dwi Arista
Editor: Nuri Hermawan
