PENGADAAN PERPUSTAKAAN RAMAH ANAK (PARA) SEBAGAI PENINGKATAN SARANA PEMBELAJARAN DI DESA PASIR JAYA, KABUPATEN BOGOR, JAWA BARAT

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Abstract

Pasir Jaya Village is one of the villages in Cigombong Subdistrict - Bogor Regency that has 22.52% of the school-aged children of the population in the village. Even though the number of schools is relatively sufficient, educational infrastructure such as children's libraries for public are not yet available so this has an impact on low interest in reading. Seeing the residents' activities which are often held routinely and usually done with children, related to the preparation of education and knowledge of these children, the community service program undertaken is the procurement of a Child Friendly Library (PARA) in Pasir Jaya Village. The methods of implementing this community service program include surveys of supporting facilities for children's libraries, Procurement of shelves, book library chairs, providing training and coaching for prospective library managers namely mothers who are members of the PKK and teenagers in Pasir Jaya Village. For this reason, the provision of a child-friendly library in the village can be carried out, and attracts children's interest in reading, as well as providing expertise and busyness that is beneficial for mothers in the village.

                                                                                                               

Keywords: Child friendly library, interest in reading, library management

 

Abstrak

Desa Pasir Jaya merupakan salah satu desa di Kecamatan Cigombong - Kabupaten Bogor yang memiliki anak-anak usia sekolah dini sebesar 22,52% dari jumlah penduduk di desa tersebut. Meskipun jumlah sekolah  relatif mencukupi, namun prasarana pendidikan seperti perpustakaan anak untuk umum belum tersedia sehingga hal ini berpengaruh terhadap minat baca yang masih rendah. Melihat kegiatan penduduk yang sering mengadakan pertemuan rutin dan biasanya membawa serta anak-anak, Sehingga terkait dengan persiapan pendidikan dan pengetahuan anak-anak tersebut,maka program pengabdian masyarakat yang dilakukan adalah pengadaan Perpustakaan Ramah Anak (PARA) di Desa Pasir Jaya. Metode pelaksanaan program pengabdian masyarakat ini antara lain survey ketersediaan fasilitas penunjang perpustakaan anak, Pengadaan rak, buku,permainan anak serta kursi perpustakaan, memberikan pelatihan dan pembinaan kepada calon pengelola perpustakaan yaitu ibu-ibu yang tergabung dalam PKK serta remaja di Desa Pasir Jaya. Hasilnya, pengadaan perpustakaan ramah anak di desa tersebut dapat dilaksanakan, dan menarik minat baca anak-anak, serta memberikan keahlian dan kesibukan yang bermanfaat bagi ibu-ibu di desa tersebut.

 

Kata kunci : Perpustakaan ramah anak, minat baca, pengelolaan perpustakaan