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UT staff in Head Office and in Regional Offices . The first edition of the

magazine publication in March 1989 was completely used as media for dialogue
among UT staff. Through this media, UT staff can give critics and have dialogue

with UT decision makers openly. Since 1994, Paket staff, apart from publishing
Suara Terbuka , has had a new task to publish Komunika magazine, acronym from
Komunikasi Universitas Terbuka . The magazine, which was first published in

1994, has served as communication media among UT students and between UT
and the students. To increase the knowledge of library staff who manage the

magazine, UT library has sent its staff to attend various training programs in
journalism. In 1999, both magazines was no longer managed by the UT library.
However, some library staff stayed as the management for the two magazines.
Apart from the publication of some communication media managed by UT

itself, in order to improve services to students, UT has also developed
cooperation with several local and national newspapers. For instance, UT has

cooperated with Harian Umum Pelita , either to publish written tutorial materials
and or to deliver information to students. For the same need, at the beginning of
1990, UT cooperated with Tabloid Mitra Desa in Bandung . Among local

newspapers which have cooperated with UT, Mitra Desa has been the most
effective media of communication , either among students or between UT and
students. This magazine has regularly contained both news of UT and written

tutorials given by UT staff to students.

Development of Library Collections

As mentioned above , UT library at first was designed to support the
availability of library materials for course writers and UT for staff in designing
distance education system which at that time had no model to replicate in

Indonesia. At its establishment, UT started to develop several study programs
which were in great demand by the society. The development of library
collections focused either on subject matter in these study programs developed

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