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Every year, UT allocated funding to increase human resource quality, usually in
the form of internship, seminar, or workshops.

However, until 2001 , UT did not have functional librarian staff. Those who
have formal education in library science, since they have background as
academic staff, tend to choose their career in functional academic position while

those administrative staff who have had participated in library science (Diploma
or S1) choose their career in administrative positions.

In 2001 , UT library had four formation for librarian functional positions, two

person for S1 and three for 03. However, after selection process, those from S1
were not accepted, therefore only those from 03 were accepted as new library
employees to fill librarian functional positions. Those were the first librarian UT
has ever had. In 2004, again it has a formation for librarians (S1 and 02). The

applicants from S1 were not accepted since they were the same applicants who
have been rejected before. Finally, UT library only accepted two applicants from

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