IMPROVING READING CULTURE IN THE COMMUNITY CAMPUS LIFE

Reading. What comes to mind when they hear that word? Some there are who think reading is a tedious activity. Others say that reading just takes time, energy and thoughts. Some even assume that reading is not a useful activity because it does not produce the material. In fact, if we want to think critically, we will find so many benefits of reading. By reading a passage, a person can receive information, deepen knowledge, and improve intelligence. Understanding of life would be even sharper because the reading can open up the minds to think critically and systematically. Only by seeing and understanding the content written in the book of knowledge and learning, reading can be a simple activity that requires little capital, but reap so many benefits.

The habit of reading is a skill acquired after a person is born, not an innate skill.Therefore, reading habits can be cultivated, nurtured and developed. For a country â € "developing countries in general reading activity is to benefit directly. For the purpose of reading is to meet the academic demands of school or university curriculum. The book as a medium of transformation and dissemination of knowledge across the barrier â € "the geographical boundaries of a country, so that science can be communicated and deployed quickly in different parts of the world. The more reading books, increasing our insights to the problems in the world. That's why the book is referred to as windows to the world.

Benefits Library

One of the most important supporting element in the world of higher education is the existence of a library. The existence of a library as a provider of facilities needed primarily to meet the needs of academic community (Lecturer, Staff and Students) will be greatly felt by the community college itself. In writing this article, the authors wish to specialize the discussion to one part of the campus community of students.

As we all know, one of the main learning activities in universities is to create quality human resources, not merely meet the minimum number of credits which are charged and then get the diploma and academic degrees or professional. Someone would say if he had quality and depth of insight and responsive to developments in science, especially in areas that they do.

A student who wants to achieve success in their studies must have a specific strategy in utilizing the time to learn as much as possible and always predicts five or six years, at which point he left the university and apply their knowledge in the field. Keep in mind that, self-learning (self education) is the hallmark of learning at the university, this means that the initiative to learn more actively prosecuted in the students, one of them by utilizing the remaining time in the library.

The benefits of the library is very important to hone analytical skills and pendalam lecture material. The library has a wide range of library materials type. The books should be read as much as possible, both books are recommended lecturers and other books that are not recommended. It is recommended that students should not limit yourself to just read a book that recommended a lecturer but read books about the same phenomenon as much as possible, because the view of many experts by reading means expanding our horizons about the object of study we learn.

Reduce Oral Tradition, Tradition Increase reading

In the era of globalization with technological advances, most people tend to hear and speak instead of seeing followed by reading. In the agency â € "any educational institution to dominate the oral tradition of teaching and learning process so that the interest in reading and want to have books of science is not a priority or not at all functioned efficiently. The fact indicates the existence of two choices alternativ ie when people are confronted with books of science and the movie interesting, people will tend to be exhausting sense of sight (eyes) to watch movies for hours â € "hours rather than reading books of science.

Read books of science writing is accompanied by very significant because it reduces the memory burden our memory. Science can only be created by those who are totally absorbed with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. In the reading public, where they have always contained the idea that people have read and mastered the content of science, people often assume has already become a great scientist or researcher. One of the moral ethics of a scientist is conscious that he only learned some of that knowledge. Being a scientist is not to be omniscient, but a person who is required to learn on a continuous â € "constantly by lots of reading books of science.Swami Vivekanda a figure well-known scientist says science and religion will meet and shake hands, poetry and philosophy will become friends. If we can mewujudkanya, we can be sure that it will happen during the â € "old and for all.


Subtract the oral tradition, listening to the reading and writing, redeem the purchase of goods which do not give meaningful input by buying books of science, take a moment to read in the library because our future is determined during the day today and this is determined during the past. All are expected to actualize the meaning of Saraswati with wise and prudent so as to bring a positive impact in the direction of progress.Therefore, and teach the culture of reading part of our lives that can not be separated .*