Analysis of Reading Interest of Santri Madrasah Aliyah Pondok Pesantren Ummusshabri as an Effort to Improve Information Literacy in Kendari City

This study examines the Analysis of Reading Interest of Santri Madrasah Aliyah Pondok Pesantren Ummusshabri as an Effort to Improve Information Literacy in Kendari City. This research approach is qualitative by using research methods or in-depth interviews. This research was conducted in depth and detail on a particular institution with objective observations, in this case the researcher wanted to see how the development of the interest of the students of Madrasah Aliyah at the Ummusshabri Islamic Boarding School as an effort to increase information literacy in the city of Kendari. Qualitative descriptive research is a method in the status of human groups, an object with the aim of making descriptive, systematic, factual and accurate pictures or paintings about the facts or phenomena being investigated (Sevilla, 1993). Based on the results of the study showing the development of reading interest in Madrasah Aliyah students, the Ummusshabri Islamic boarding school as an effort to increase information literacy in Kendari City, the Ummusshahabri Islamic boarding school has a literacy program that is run especially in Madrasah Aliyah, which has a special day to read books and twice a week to visit library, this is done to increase the reading interest of the students, where the reading development of the students of Madrasah Aliyah Ummusshabri Islamic Boarding School from year to year has not yet increased, this is in accordance with the results of the informant's perception that quantitatively or counting numbers check more deeply but from time to time.