Redefining Library Organizational Cultures

Abstract

This article discusses about redefining library organization culture through the implementation of ICT in a university library. The implementation of ICT through the program and project between state and World Bank and Nagari library as a state university library emerge the inspiration to overview librarian cultures in the library bases on communication in organizations. It is a study of microcospic within the macrocospic perspective in a global system. The resistance on ICT of university librarians is an important topic as it makes resistance significant to the meaning of ICT in library for librarians; and the implementation of ICT to the librarians build up and preserve the individuals and the members of library as a community. The objective is to explain the dynamic of librarians in a library as a complex organization that have been abruptly urged by ICT implementation. The strategic actions are using symbols they have already known and taken advantage of throughout their working life experience. The methodology of the research focused on 60 librarians observed and  interviewed. The finding is that the symbolic behavior, as a form of resistance of the staff and librarian to the implementation of ICT in university library, does not only mean to aim the domination. It means significantly as bonding of the relations between staff and  librarians. The bonds strengthen the spirit of all to reach the goal of the library.

Keywords: Resistance, librarians, strategies, symbolic interactionism.