Quoting from Indonesian Reading Ambassador, Najwa Shihab, “The importance of reading, in addition to increasing knowledge, it also stimulate our mind to keep it open. Reading is not just seeing words, but getting meaning from what you read. when we read more, we will grow to understand various things (“the universe”) and certainly, we won’t become “superficial minded” people “.
Because of the importance of reading, this culture must be nurtured and improved. Just like what was done by SMA Negeri 1 Gresik, in order to increase knowledge about the Library and providing motivation to read, Yesterday (25/03) 40 students who are also reading ambassadors of Camusa SMA Negeri 1 Gresik visited the ITS Library.
At 10.00 am students from SMA Negeri 1 Gresik came to the 2nd -floor Library seminar room. The program began with remarks from the ITS Library representatives and SMA Negeri 1 Gresik. After the speech, continued with the presentation of ITS Library as well as an introduction before they were invited to tour the library.
“According to the information, this SMA Negeri 1 Gresik has the highest number of students who pass SNMPTN, and that is something to be proud of. Hopefully, it will give spirit to the students to read more, and the enthusiasm to pursue their dreams. “Said Edy Suprayitno as Head of ITS Library when delivering his speech.
The main agenda of the library tour began after delivering material, remarks, and giving souvenirs from SMA Negeri 1 Gresik to ITS Library. The Library Tour participants seemed very excited, and couldn’t wait to see around what had been said in a presentation before. Not only seeing and taking pictures, the tour participants (that divided into two groups) also enthusiastic to ask.
“We are very grateful to the ITS Library, for receiving our visit well. Hopefully, this visit can motivate our students to improve their reading enthusiasm and motivation so they will be more diligent in pursuing their dreams, one of them is studying at ITS, “explained Mitsaliya Safira.,A.Md (librarian from SMAN 1 Gresik) (nrl/rei)
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