LIBRARY TOUR IN INDONESIA

a small sample of mobile library in Indonesia

 

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Iftar with book

   

                           

 Monday, 22 JUNE 2015. Library science park community events, read the title on the afternoon before iftar. In the event read the title this time is fully supported by COMPASS community sidoarjo lovers who also held an event to share love, namely ta'jil distributed to road users passing through the town of Sidoarjo.

Read the title of the event and share the love of Ramadan is located right in front of the former crown, or next to the square sidoarjo, highly strategic as downtown Sidoarjo. The event sharing this love, will be implemented during the whole month of Ramadan father said firmly as chairman sidoarjo lovers community.

Tit for tat, while waiting for the time to break arrives, people are spoiled with various books that exist in the mobile library tricycle belonging to the community library science park Sukorejo Buduran sidoarjo. Read the title aims to get closer to the people in the book, which is oriented in order to increase interest in reading culture in the community and society at large, especially sidoarjo general.

While the reader with asiknya, there appears also street children who choose the desired books. Truly incredible sight to me where they help each other to achieve what they want by raising his little brother to a closer look at the books that are available.

Disore read the title, a first-time experience for me. But here I get a lot of valuable lessons, which in fact our society still has enthusiastic enough, even if they are street children who notabennya of the lower classes. And read the title of this kind we need mothers said yayuk day become one of the readers in libraries around that time.

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Herbs That Want poison sellers buyers with Books

    Monday (05.18.15) at around 06.00 pm, Muhammad Fauzi (23) was busy filling medicinal packaging plastic bottles of mineral water. Assisted by his wife, Imroatul Mufida (28) he compiled a bottle of herbal medicine into a wooden shelf that is mounted on the bike seat.

    The man who is familiarly called Fauzi is already more than ten years of selling herbs. However, Fauzi not just selling herbs. Men's junior high school graduates free share knowledge through books.

     The shelves of his herbal medicine, he accidentally insert a variety of types of books. Fauzi deliberately brought dozens of used books that, while around selling herbs.

He hopes, customers can read books while enjoying herbal formula.

      "If the selling of herbal medicine since childhood. My mother is selling herbs. But if selling herbs around while carrying the book around 2011," Fauzi said when met at his home.

     The father of two children was admitted, since childhood he was a hobby of reading books. And he wants to transmit it to the customer's hobbies and residents who live around the house.

      He is a great desire for the book as a source of knowledge to be able to easily read by anyone. Fauzi belief, a lot of people who love to read books, but not all of them can easily get it. Just as he was at the time still small.

The first child of ten siblings told, he was raised from poor families. Father and mother divorced when he was a child.

In addition to selling herbal medicine, his mother worked as a greengrocer to live it and nine siblings. For that reason, his childhood was not happy as children in general. He had to help his mother sell herbs.

       Because of the condition of his family, he was only able to finish formal education up to junior level. In fact, he has a great desire to continue their education in order to gain knowledge and read more books at the time.

     Experiences in his childhood that made him determined to make the library and lent free of charge to anyone. Including, by way of selling books while bringing books to be loaned free of charge.

      "I do not want kids can not enjoy reading a book as it used to when I was a kid. I'd love to read books, but my parents could not afford," said Fauzi.

       Currently he has a library in his home, at Jalan Sukorejo RT 9 RW III, Sukorejo, District Buduran, Sidoarjo. The library was constructed from grant money from friends and a number of benefactors.

    Public Library of Science Parks or abbreviated Perpustim was built in a former clinic building village that has been unused for about two years. Fauzi dared to ask permission from the village chief Sukorejo to use the building as a library.

   Lucky village head gave him permission. "This used to be the former polindes, but has not been used two years. Finally I was asked to pack the village heads to be used as a library," he explained.

     Fauzi told, at first Perpustim only contains some of his used books. Religious books and textbooks by the time he studied at the boarding school. He was stacking books on a wooden shelf that he makes his own using scrap wood.

     "I believe that time is only about 30 books. It also used books when I was studying at the cottage," admitted jelasnya.Ia not strong enough to buy books in large quantities at once. Understandably, he had to support his wife and two children from selling herbs. Income is not necessarily a day, sometimes Rp 30.00 to Rp 50,000.

    Fortunately, a lot of friends who support its goals to build a small library in the village. Apparently, the photos on facebook Fauzi featuring a library and kegiatann seen her many accomplishments.

    Some of her friends also gave a positive response, and contributed to books bekas.Ada also, who donated some money to add to a collection of books in Perpustim.

"At that time, my friend who contributed Rp 950,000. I bought used books and paint. Finally, the book adds a lot," he explained.

    Started since then he increasingly eager to raise the library and add to the collection of books in it. Lucky few years later, there was a generous man who felt sorry after reading his column in the Daily Citizen Reporter Surya which contains about Perpustim.

     "Starting around 2013 finally many who want to help. Includes pack Jimy from Surabaya who helped donate books and buy some equipment. He is interested in helping, after reading my article in the newspaper," he explained proudly.

     Gradually the collection of books in Perpustim it manages increased. According to Fauzi, currently there are about 6000 books. The antarnya book, about health, computer tutorials, how berteranak, gardening, entrepreneurship, law, novel, short story, school lessons, and a variety of other books.

     He said, it is not all the residents in the village are interested to come to Perpustim and read a book. Nevertheless, almost every day there are dozens of children who come to Perpustim to read a book.

"It was not until hundreds every day. We do not need a lot, a little but they come here is serious to read the book, I've been happy," Boston men's skinny.

      Most visitors Perpustim is among housewives and children. The bias mothers borrow cookbooks or health books. While the kids more to borrow textbooks and science books.

       Now, whenever he sells herbal beerkeliling he brings to participate books from perpustakaanya. Every two weeks she changed the books he was carrying. Sometimes, the customer herbal medicine accidentally ordered the book you want to read. With pleasure, Fauzi find him and take him to his customers.

    Fauzi said, every Monday through Saturday he sells herbs in front of the factory of PT Multi Prawn Indonesia (MPI). The customers are employees of shrimp processing plant in the village of Karangbong, District Gedangan, the Sidoarjo regency. He usually sell in front of the factory started around 06.30 until 09.00.

      After that he shifted to move forward Karangbong Village Hall. In that place he was waiting for a customer pelanggannya.Seorang herbs Istiqiah Sofi (45) said he was happy to read the book for free. Once a week, usually borrow one to two books. "Yes happy, I do not need all the way to the local library to borrow a book," said the mother of four children.

Factory employees who familiarly called Sofi said, usually in addition to buying herbs he always took time to borrow health books. The books he read at home, sometimes he read during recess at the factory.

     "Sometimes in the factory, sometimes read at home," he explained while carrying a book entitled 'Stroke and Handling' newly borrowed.

Fauzi transmit not only a hobby of reading books while traveling peddling herbal medicine. However, he also sent the books to a number of stalls in the village Karanbong. He accidentally left some books diwarung-stall it in order to read the buyer at the shop. Understandably, in the village there are many boarding and the rented house where the factory workers lived.

     "There are about 10 stalls. I helped my friend sellers crackers to distribute the books to the stalls. Every two weeks we replace the book," he said.

     

    He said, it is not easy to entrust the book to a number of stalls. Though he did not charge at all for the shop owner. The shop owner reasoned, the books will take place at the table, so to disturb the customers shop. But not all stalls refused.

      Hofa (20), a shop manager in front of the factory actually glad when the governor left the book. Therefore, many customers in his stall who likes to read books. "Yes, okay. Do not disturb, even many who are happy to have breakfast and drink coffee while on the books," he said.

      Meanwhile, on Sunday, usually he is often invited to come to a number of orphanages to bring his books, or in activities in the district. "Sometimes if there are activities such as fitting an exhibition or festival I was invited," he added.

      Thanks to the efforts and enthusiasm, Fauzi several times awarded and assistance for the development of the library. One of them from a motorcycle company based in India. He is regarded as inspiring youth. Most recently, he was also elected to represent District top ten in the race village library Sidoarjo East Java province level in 2015 that hosted the Library and Archives of East Java Province.

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