Pengaruh pemutaran musik instrumental terhadap kenyamanan membaca pemustaka di Perpustakaan Universitas Muhammadiyah Sukabumi

Introduction. Library of Universitas Muhammadiyah Sukabumi (UMMI) plays an instrumental music on Tuesdays and Fridays morning to create nicer atmosphere of  reading activities. The paper aims to describe the effects of instrumental music toward users’ reading comfort.Data Collection Method. This research used a descriptive quatitative approach with Likert scale in the surveys. The 54 respondents were gathered by using random sampling.Analysis Data. The data was analyzed by statistical descriptive to show user’s’ perceiveness toward playback of instrumental music (variable Y) and user’s’ reading comfort. The data was analyzed by using SPSS 20  .Results and Discussions. The user’s’ perceiveness toward the playback of instrumental music and the reading comfort were 1.816 and 1.972 and considered “good”. The playback of instrumental music showed a positive effect toward users’ reading comfort with R Square 16.3 %, and thus H1 was accepted.Conclusions. The playback of instrumental music in library has positive effect toward users’ reading comfort. Librarians should vary the music playlists

EVALUASI IMPLEMENTASI REPOSITORI INSTITUSI DI PERPUSTAKAAN UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH SUKABUMI

Technological developments encourage libraries to go with the flow, one of which is through an open access repository in supporting the dissemination of scientific work by academics to achieve high utility. In its application, open access repository requires clear policy support in writing. Writing this article aims to identify the alignment of institutional repository policies in the UMMI library with user needs and the constraints they face. The results found that the access restriction policies applied were quite in contrast to the views of service users who needed unrestricted access. This can be seen from the performance of the top 10 pages on downloadable pages and the large number of service users accessing scientific papers during a pandemic. There is concern that the practice of plagiarism in the framework of protecting academic works is an issue that is considered as open access is still limited. Therefore, it is necessary to harmonize views regarding open access repositories between policies, technical implementers, and service users