PENGUATAN KOMPETENSI PENGELOLA PERPUSTAKAAN MADRASAH DAN SEKOLAH MELALUI DIKLAT BERKESINAMBUNGAN

Abstract

Education and training for madrasah and school library managers in the city of Padang to manage existing
libraries should have an educational background in Library Science. In fact, the head of the library is a
teacher in the field of study and the library manager is still honorary. Lack of attention from the leadership
so that library managers are not creative because there is no continuous education and training. The
questionnaire was distributed by the service team to 74 schools and madrasahs in the city of Padang and
only 30 returned questionnaires, where the average school library accreditation score was very low and
below the standard value of accreditation issued by the Jakarta National Library. This research-based
service method is Participation Action Research (PAR) which involves parties from the Head of the West
Sumatra Provincial Education Office, West Sumatra Provincial Archives and Libraries, the Head of the
Ministry of Religion of Padang City is invited as a speaker. From the results of the education and training
activities, it is not clear that the policies that will be carried out by leaders and decision makers to advance
the library in a better direction.