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discussion place. Since the frequency of students' attendance at that time was
not significant, the corner was merged with the reading room for other readers.

Networking

As a distance education institution, UT library does not operate by itself.
Networking is a key success for UT library. Therefore, since the beginning , UT
library has established networking with other state higher education institutions

all over Indonesia. Consequently, UT students can have access to the library
near to their places. It has also established networking with the national library

collections in regional areas.
As a state higher education institution library, its activities have referred to
library programs conducted by Directorate General of Higher Education.

Therefore, UT library was involved when the Directorate General of Higher
Education worked on Project for Higher Education Development funded by foreign
aids in 1988. One of the important components of the Project was Coordinating

Unit for Library Activities (Unit Koordinasi Kegiatan Perpustakaan or UKKP) . This
Unit has been established as government effort to develop a library network for
state higher education institutions in Indonesia. Through the network, there is

possibility to jointly use the state higher education institution libraries, and then
Pusat Layanan Disiplin 1/mu (Pusyandi) or Centre for Scientific Services has

been established. Through Pusyandi, it was expected that the library service can
be optimized. Students from different higher education institutions can get
similar services available through this library networking. The collection

development center is managed in accordance with Pusyandi center. Other
higher education institution libraries can use the collections developed by
Pusyandi libraries.

There were eight state higher education institutions to be developed as
Pusyandi, while others were expected to be members that can use the collections

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