1. Central Library University of Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
Revitalization of Academic Libraries in the Achievement of World-class Universities
INDONESIA
Central Library University of Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
Mangestuti Agil
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2. Library of Universitas Airlangga

3. Established in 1955
27 professional librarians: grad, master
28 supporting staffs

4. Opening hours: ± 105,5 jam/week
days
A campus
B campus
C campus
Monday-Thu
8.00 – 19.00
Jum’at
, – 18.30
Saturday
8.00 – 16.00
Sunday
9.00 – 13.00

5. Library of Universitas Airlangga
conducting a program to revitalize performance more seriously since 2013 (IT-based library)
especially in giving more awareness to their role in helping researchers as a strategy to achieve the world-class standard of the university
They are expected to become good and reliable partners of researchers able to promote the scholarly outputs of the university
Priority is given to the enhancement of the skill and performance of librarians:

6. Present situation Universitas Airlangga: research universities
13 faculties (undergraduate 34 study programs, master 44 study programs, doctorate 13, vocational)
AUN –QA certification: Faculty of Medicine
25,000 students
1-2% foreign students (mostly Malaysian)
Financial support (university and government): limited

7. Traditional vs Specialized Role
Librarians are demanded not only able to conduct traditional roles as catalogers, system specialists, references
become more specialized, such as domain specialist and data curators.

8. Conditions and efforts
Conditions/problems
Solutions
Librarians do not aware on their future role, especially in information literacy
intership/benchmark activities to broaden mind
Do not aware of the importance to help researchers
Collaborations with researchers
Do not fully aware their role as subject experts
Conduct classes/workshops for practicing

9. conditions
Researchers do not know about the role of librarians in a research work
Solution:
Persuade researchers (professor) to help them in finding out latest information
Persuade in creating a personal library

10. Condition of Academic Libraries
Present situation of academic libraries in Indonesia vary:
ability to improve and enhance their performances depend on the support of administrators.
Library of Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Universitas Gajah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, have been started conducting many efforts to enhance its responsibility for some years now.

11. Collaborations: Academician, Business, Government
Libraries must be able to work with:
domain specialists, computer and other information scientists to anticipate collaborations with industries and governments sectors through the rapid development of information and technology

12. Improvement
Improving the role of librarians to enhance their scientific quality is the only way in the optimum utilization of libraries.
In the era of global ASEAN community: improvements could be reached through exchange programmes arranged by AUN ILO, such as internship conducted throughout academic libraries within ASEAN countries.

13. Internship
Previous benchmark activities have been conducted by some librarians of the Universitas Airlangga, and it is concluded that internship is necessary to improve their performances.
Through such efforts, librarians are able to enhance their skills and broaden their mind.

14. Responsibility of Research Libraries
realization of the vision and mission of the universities, institutes and other higher education institutions
Most of are members of some library associations, and therefore each other has good collaborations

15. Librarian in a Research university
In giving support to achieve the goal of the research universities, libraries must be able to get involved in disseminating the research products, which include collecting, preserving and recording.
Librarians demand to help researchers in every process of a research work, from assisting with citation management, assessing research impact through bibliometrics and citation analysis, to finding relevant published literature

16. Collection Number of collection Condition of the collection Notes
titles
( copies)
Ideal number: 463,095 title
( number of students x 15 title)
- 2.13% : last 2 year
-4.14% : 3-4 year of publication
-93.73%: 5 year of publication
4000 copies of final assignment, thesis, dissertations
subscription of e-journals

17. THANK YOU