Perpustakaan Sebagai Public Relations dalam Mendukung Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi

Abstract

This research was conducted to offer a concept for the implementation of higher education libraries, where we know that the higher education library is one of the units whose existence is to support the implementation of education organized by tertiary institutions. The role and function of the library towards the Tri Dharma of Higher Education so far seems to be limping, that is because the new ones that are running support education and even then it is not optimal, while research and community service seem to be separated from the role of the library. Here the author offers that the management and organization of the library can pay attention to academic culture, what needs to be built is the academic cultural infrastructure and making Public Relations a strategic step in manipulating the habit of neglecting the library in the implementation of the Tri Dharma. The type of approach used is comparative qualitative with a qualitative approach. Data collection was used with data collection techniques in the form of articles, books, regulations, websites and other sources related to the problem under study. The collected data is studied by linking the phenomena that occur so as to give birth to an interpretation or view then arranged systematically so as to produce a view or concept that can be applied by managers in organizing libraries, especially in supporting the implementation of the Tri Dharma of Higher Education