Utilizing Motive of Children Literature Collection in Children Reading Room

摘要

Children reading room in West Java Regional Library and Archives Agency (BAPUSIPDA: Badan Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Daerah Jawa Barat) is an agency library service that provides children books collection. The collection frequently used by children in the agency children reading room is a collection of literary books. This study looked for to investigate the motive of the use of literature collection by children in the agency children reading room. The purpose of this research was to know the utilization motive of the collection in the agency children reading room that refers to the action in the future and the past. This research was based on the theory of phenomenology. This research is qualitative research with phenomenology approach. This research selected five children librarian in the agency children reading room who were still elementary students (SD: Sekolah Dasar). The results of this research were (1) the motive of the utilization of children literature collection in the children reading room related to future actions are to increase knowledge and utilize the collection as reference for school and exam, the ease in comprehending the collection of fiction books and the desire to explore the inspirational values contained in the reading and character of fiction books; (2) the motive of the utilization of children literature collection in the children reading room related to past actions are the completeness of the collection that makes the children have more choices of reading material, to actualize the hobby in reading, the passion in reading the collection with varied illustrations and colors and the comfort of the room that makes the children become comfortable.