Kegiatan Penataan Koleksi Bahan Pustaka Tercetak pada Layanan Umum Dinas Perpustakaan dan Arsip Provinsi Sumatera Utara

Abstract

The objective of this research is to find out how library collection is managed at the Public Service in the Libraty and Archive Agency of North Sumatra Province. As a form of information stored Jo meet library users' needs for needs information, each existing library collection needs to be properly managed by paying attention to their shelving in the libra,y. library collection arrangement or shelving is the activity of compiling library materials along the shelves according to subject and classification number. A well­ managed collection oflibra,y materials will facilitate the process of retrieving information quickly and accurately. The writing of this paper uses methods of observation, inlerviews with three Public Service staff, literature studies and documentation conducted at the Libra,y and Archives Agency of North Sumatra Province. The results demonstrate that the shelving of libra,y collections at the Public Service in the Library and Archive Agency of North Sumatra Province has several priorities in the process of arranging them into shelves, namely, new library collections, ready-to-read collections, collections ready to be borrowed and collection management results. In addition, the shelving of the library collection also has references to the shelving. namely, by type, guided to the 23rd edition of Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) nd arranged according to sequences. Libraty collections that are feasible to compile are library materials that have gone through the data collection process in Jhe Literature processing division.