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The work program of the National Library (NLI) is ready to make many changes to maximize the benefits for the Indonesian people through IPusnas. Speaking after the national working meeting 2020 themed Innovation and creativity of librarians in strengthening the literacy index to realize Superior HR Towards Advanced Indonesia in the pepembnas building in Salemba, Jakarta, Head of the National Library, Muhammad Syarif Bando expressed the readiness of the National Library to provide millions of book titles in digital form.

"There are lots of changes in terms of the old paradigm to a new concept. The first is that the library is no longer a book of books on a shelf that is kept by librarians until they are rotten. But it changed to how to manage collections, how to manage knowledge, how to transfer knowledge. Therefore, don't ask me again as the head of the library, how many visitors you have, how many books are read, ask me how much digital access you provide at any time and the ability of the National Library can. God willing, can be twenty thousand per second and I can provide 20 million every day and 3 billion scientific journals available at the National Library are ready to be accessed free of charge by anyone and at any time as long as you have a mobile phone. Secondly, you might ask what about the latest books, please enter the application, install IPusnas, you will find millions of new book titles to read, you don't need to be a member of the library, and it's free. The third may be historians, researchers who want to know the history of Indonesia hundreds of years ago, you can enter kastara there all manuscripts, rare texts have entered there" Syarif said.

Syarif added that the National Library must focus on what is received by the community. Therefore, for all the rupiah spent by the current state budget, the parameter is to create what benefits the Indonesian people receive. // (VOI/​​NK/AHM)