Various Health Services In Mataram Will Be Equipped With A Read Corner

Health services in Mataram will be equipped with a reading corner (Doc. ANTARA)

The latest innovations are being prepared by the Mataram City Archives and Library Office, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Province. Various health service centers such as health centers and hospitals will be equipped with books in the reading corner.

Head of the Mataram City Archives and Library Service (Diarpus) Jemmy Nelwan in Mataram, Sunday, said that the provision of reading corners at the health service center was an effort to increase literacy and public interest in reading.

"In addition, reducing the saturation of visitors while waiting in line. While waiting in line, visitors can read the collection we are preparing," he said, quoted from ANTARA, Sunday, December 22.

It is said, the existence of reading corners in health service centers is considered a priority because it can be an effective means of providing access to visitors and employees in reading books.

Books will be prepared in the reading corner in the form of children's reading, health science, benchmark works containing information or descriptions about various things in the arts and science (ensiclopedi), and other types of books.

Therefore, to implement the program, in the near future his party will coordinate with the Health Office which oversees 11 health centers throughout Mataram City and Ruslan Mataram Hospital.

"We start from government health services, if it goes smoothly, then go to private health services. Hopefully in early 2025, it can be realized," he said.

The Mataram City Diarrpus also intensified activities to socialize the innovation of digital e-Book Mataram Digital Library (digital library) services to facilitate access to reading anytime and anywhere.

To be able to access digital libraries, people download e-Book applications, then follow the steps that have been prepared.

It is said that digital library services are a place to digitally or online borrowing collections of books and other educational sources.

In the digital library, Mataram City Diarrpus prepares a collection of digital books as many as 490 titles 980 copies.

By having an e-Book application, digital libraries can make it easier for people to access electronic sources with fun tools, anytime and anywhere.

"The city of Mataram is the first regency/city in NTB to implement a digital library," he said.

On the other hand, Jemmy added that the total number of reading book assets in the library since the founding of the Library Office was recorded at 42,653 titles or 61,846 copies.

"However, because some have been transferred to the community's reading park, damaged, lost, and others, the current collection of books is 14,727 titles or 28,481 copies," he said.