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02 library graduates. Therefore , until now UT library has only five librarians

(three of them from 03 and two of them from 02) . The rest was administrative
staff and academic functional staff who based in the Faculty.
Besides that, UT library also have human resources who has developed
special skills in journalism. UT library which at the beginning was called

Educational Production , Informatics, and Data Processing Centre, has a task to
publish a magazine as communication media between students and UT. For the

task, UT coordinated with Yayasan Himpunan Masyarakat Pecinta Buku
(Himapbu), an NGO which has activities in reading interest development. At
first, the magazine was called Mandiri, however since the permission from

Ministry of Information was not issued, therefore it was published temporarily
under the name of Paket, or camouflaged as "Paket Be/ajar Mandiri" in order to
be available for UT students . It was published in May 1985 and had a good

response, as it was proved by the reprinting of the first and second editions with
the publication volumes of 15.000 copies.
In 1985, Himapbu was dismissed and some of its staff became UT staff

who was placed in library. Paket experienced ups and downs. Production cost
was not covered by UT anymore and consequently it was not published regularly .

In 1987 Paket tried to have partner. The management of Kartini magazine then
became partner in order to keep it published . By having partnered with Kartini
magazine , the name of Paket was changed to become Kampus and used as

student magazine which was broadly published not only for UT students but also
for other conventional campus students . Paket staff that had been the UT library
staff moved to Kartini office in Jalan Garuda, Jakarta Timur.

The publication of Kampus was similar to Mandiri. Ministry of Information did not
issue the permission . The cooperation with Kartini was over, Paket finally was
ended in 1988. Paket staff who had been working at Kartini office was moved

back to the UT library.
The need for communication media was still felt important, therefore Suara

Terbuka magazine was published as an internal communication magazine among

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