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Bureau) moved to General Building (Gedung Umum) . In 1988, the Library moved
again and it was broaden to become a half of the first floor.

In 1991 , the Learning Materials Distribution Center (now called Learning
Materials Service Center) moved to a new place. UT library was placed in the
formerly Warehouse Building of the Distribution Center, which at that time had
been developed to have the second floor. It occupied a half of the first floor in

the area of 450 m2. In 1997, UT was allocated a project by the Directorate
General of Higher Education (Ditjen-Dikti) for library building in the area 2000 m2

(four floors) . However, the monetary crisis in Indonesia made the building
development was ended abruptly and it then continued in 1999. In 2000, it moved
again to a building which was designed specially and permanently as a library

building so that it was easier for it to focus on developing library programs,
especially in order to support the achievement of UT vision and in accordance

with its name, Pusat Layanan Pustaka (Library Service Center) .

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