THE FUTURE OF BOOKS READERSHIP: BAGAIMANA BUKU DI MASA DEPAN?

Kemajuan teknologi yang sangat cepat, pesat dan tidak akan pernah ada habisnya melahirkan berbagai macam kelebihan serta kekurangannya dari teknologi-teknologi canggih itu sendiri. Dewasa ini kita tidak bisa mengelak dari kemajuan teknologi karena memang pada dasarnya semua teknologi yang terlahir diperuntukkan agar memudahkan kita sebagai pengguna. Namun, lahirnya teknologi baru juga mengundang dampak bagi penggunanya. Salah satunya yaitu penulis akan memfokuskan kepada bagaimana masa depan dari readership buku. Hal ini memancing penulis untuk menulis dan mengulasnya karena, saat ini pembaca buku mulai beralih kepada bentuk media elektronik yang terkoneksi dengan internet, sehingga dalam penggunaan media baru ini akan sangat memudahkan penggunanya dalam membaca. Pada tulisan ini, penulis akan memfokuskan bagaimana prediksi serta pro dan kontra terhadap tingkat jumlah pembaca (readership) khususnya buku. Tidak menutup kemungkinan memang generasi sekarang dan yang akan datang, akan mengubah cara membaca mereka dari buku manual menjadi buku yang telah tedigitalisasikan. Adapun dalam tulisan ini, penulis akan mencoba memberikan pandangan – pandangan kedepan dari buku yang mana nasip nya juga sangat dipengaruhi dari berapa jumlah pembaca dari buku yang secara manual, dengan melihat beberapa kasus yang telah terjadi pada media cetak lainnya, seperi koran/ newspaper.ABSTRACT Technological advances that are very fast, rapidly and will never endlessly bear a variety of advantages and disadvantages of the advanced technologies themselves. Today we cannot escape from the advancement of technology because it is basically all the technology that is born destined to facilitate us as users. However, the birth of new technology also invites impact for its users. One of them is the author will focus on how the future of the book readership. This provokes the author to write and review it because, now the book readers are turning to the form of electronic media connected to the internet, so in the use of this new media will greatly facilitate users in reading. In this paper, the author will focus how the predictions and pros and cons on the level of the number of readers (readership), especially books. It is possible that present and future generations will change the way they read from manuals into books that have been digitized. As in this paper, the author will try to give forward views of the book which his destiny is also greatly influenced by how many readers of the book manually, by looking at some cases that have occurred in other print media, like newspapers / newspaper

Kecenderungan topik penelitian di bidang ilmu perpustakaan dan informasi dengan pendekatan kaidah zipf

Introduction. This research aims to obtain the mapping of research in the field of Library and Information in Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi(BIP) published by Universitas Gadjah Mada.  The Research Method.This was abibliometric analysis using Zipf (frequency spread of word) with research samples of 20 jurnal articles published by BIP in 2017.Data Collection Method. Every article was examined by the highest word frequencyresulting keywords and subjects for each article. Further analysis was conducted to classify subject grouping based on Hawkins theory.Results and Discussions. The results indicated that research topics in Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi UGM in 2017 were classified into two categories: (1) There were, 16 articlesrelated to the topic “Librarians”, (2) There were 4 articles related to the topic“Information Science”. The result is the tendency of research topics in the field of the IPI entered into a group of librarianship.Conclusion. The research topics in the field of Library and Information Science is more likely to enter the librarianship group. Future advice is that researchers are expected to develop research by raising other topics