Exploring the Utilization of Museums for Academic Purposes among UIN Lecturers

摘要

The purpose of this study is to explore the phenomenon of the lecturers in utilizing information resource centers, especially museum for academic needs. As the cultural heritage center, museums have a very significant role in providing comprehensive information to meet the lecturer academic needs. This research was conducted at the UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta by using the phenomenological approach of qualitative method. The techniques of data collection are observation and interview. Informants of this study are lecturers of the faculty of Adab and Humanities. The research findings revealed that all the lecturers tended to agree and stated that museums have significant role to meet their academic needs, they complement other resources such as libraries. This study found out the activities that are usually carried out by some lecturers utilizing the resources of museums for the academic purposes: collecting teaching materials, giving student tasks, writing journal articles and conducting research report. Unavailability of university budget for museum academic visiting is the main reason for the lecturer not utilizing museum as the information resources.