THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ACEHNESE LIBRARY POST-TSUNAMI

Abstract

Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) is one of the provinces in Indonesia that have a good uniqueness culture, the nature, the biological diversity, and also the nature resources. The community is friendly, well-mannered and have fighting spirit that made NAD is one of the province that was counted successful in the development programm. However the very horrifying tsunami disaster that happened on Sunday morning, on December 26 2004 had caused destruction almost in all the lines, one of them was the library. The Library province of Perpustakaan Daerah Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) in Banda Aceh that carried out the task of the management of the library in the Province of Nanggroe Aceh Darusalam experienced means damage of the infrastructure and lost various resources, so the library and the centre of the documentation and information, was distroyed by the tsunami. Post the tsunami, the community and the NAD government began to rise up, and also the library. Because the government and the community believed that the library is the source of information, the series link of the history of the past, as the space of now and was the guide in planning and bringing about the better future. The development of the Library in NAD in accordance with the international standard became the step in the development and the beginning of the community of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam that are smart, advance, just and prosperous. This paper describe about the Aceh history, the condition, the development of the library post tsunami, the problem of the library in NAD, and strategic steps that better be carried out by the NAD government.