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Kajian Dalam Bidang Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi: Filosofi, Teori, dan Praktik

articles show that the interior, layout of the library space and furniture
should be arranged in such a way as to make the user interact for a long time
because the convenience library makes the visitor feel at home. Because
the library is also designed to for everyone, the users feel that the library
is the a «home», so there is no feeling of hesitation when doing activities
in the library. In this phase, the library no longer functions as a place for
people to read and borrow collections, but as a center of interaction (now
known as the «public sphere»).

Librarians as User Interactions Companion
In contrast to interactions in other places, interaction between library
users is always intended to achieve a goal, whether it>s exchanging
knowledge and experience, finding a shared knowledge, finding new ideas
or finding ways to solve problems together to be followed up with actions.
Therefore, interactions in libraries are never «empty» interactions, are not
interactions without provision or interaction objects. The idea that has long
emerged from library activists is that when the library users are discussing,
the library can provides material and provisions for them as references so
that every idea, knowledge exchange and problem solving always has a
reliable source of reference and can be justified.
When information sources are available in digital form that can be
accessed quickly through the Internet with gadgets that each user has, the
provisions and materials no longer only come from the library, or even totally
not in the library. Yet, not many users are able to choose and determine the
information that they need from the millions of information available. This
is where the presence of librarians is needed. Librarians with knowledge,
and skills to find, to choose, to sort and determine the right information, will
help the library user determine the most appropriate information to become
the main reference for ongoing discussion. With the presence of librarians,
many benefits are obtained when the library user conducts discussions,
among others, librarians will only choose information whose sources can
be accounted for, qualified and reputable, thus it is impossible for the
discussion to be provided with a source of «hoax». Another advantage of
his ability in knowledge management, librarians will process all discussion
material that is usually not properly stored by the users, into a sequential
record and then managed to become knowledge that will be utilized by
the users themselves. The next advantage is the presence of librarians, the
passage of discussion, the exchange of experiences, knowledge exchange
or problem solving will be more directed and orderly because the librarians
have the knowledge to organize and sort information from the beginning
until finally forming the goal achievement.

128 Library as A Center of Social Interaction in the Digital Era