REKONSTRUKSI PERAN PUSTAKAWAN DI ERA GLOBALISASI

Talking about the increase in human resources, substantively library occupies a very urgent role. However, more library serves as a storage pile of books deserted from literacy activities, let alone research and development activities. This article examines how should the role of librarians in globalization era. In this globalization era, there are four important role librarians, that is collecting and providing access to information and knowledge and sources scattered around the world in multiformat, add or put a value on information and knowledge (adding value), provides online service for 24 hours, and provide varied and dynamic services, included the whole cycle of knowledge, from creation, recording and publication, dissemination, use, and re-creation of knowledge. With these four librarians role, expected to libraries in globalization era not merely as “noun”, that is a place to store a collection of books and a variety of other collections, but the library is able to transform a “verb” or process, that is nursery places and dissemination of knowledge.