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developed by Pusyandi. The state higher education institution libraries
developed as Pusyandi are expected to deliver the information of new collections

they have developed. UT library , which is not a member of Pusyandi networking ,
can use the collections developed by those eight Pusyandis , either through the
internet or facsimile. The purpose of this networking is to have opportunities to

develop a service system among libraries. The eight Pusyandis are describe in
Table 1.

Table 1. The Pusyandis

No. Higher education institution Subject matter developed

1 University of Indonesia, Jakarta • Law
• Arts and Humanity
• Library, Computer, and
Information
2 Bogor Agricultural Institute Agriculture
3 Institute Technology of Bandung Technology
4 Bandung Institute for Teacher Training and Education
Educational Science
5 Gajah Mada University, Yogyakarta • Social Science
• Basic Science
• Economics

6 Indonesian Arts Institute, Yogyakarta Culture and Arts

7 University of Airlangga, Surabaya Medical and Health Sciences

8 Institute of Technology, Surabaya Marine technology

UT library along with other five higher education institution libraries were
among the first libraries to be the member of Pusyandis networking (Directorate

General of Higher Education, 1991 ). Those libraries were Padjadjaran University
Library, North Sumatra University Library, Hasanuddin University Library, Jakarta
Institute of Teacher Training and Educational Science (now State University of

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