Date: 24-25 July 2025 

Venue : STT Sangkakala, Salatiga 

Description: 

The Indonesian Christian College Library Communication Forum (FKPPTKI) organized a lokakarya (seminar-workshop) with the theme "The Golden Compass: Finding Leadership Direction in the Vortex of Change" on July 24-25, 2025 held at STT Sangkakala, Salatiga. This activity aims to equip libraries and librarians to face today's reality, which is described by the term VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity), and is introduced to participants during a series of activities in the form of seminars and outbound games. 

Dr. Linda Ariany Mahastanti, SE., M.Sc., opened the workshop session with a brief introduction to the concept of VUCA as an introduction to each outdoor game session held and led by Dr. Dhama Gustiar Baskoro, S.S., M.Pd. This activity is also expected to develop new skills in participants as a response to the VUCA phenomenon, such as decision-making skills, emotional resilience, strategies related to prediction and planning, agility, adaptation, learning orientation, mindset change, clarity, collaboration, and networking. 

At the end of each day, a reflection session was held on the various activities participated in by the participants, along with an exploration of relevant biblical values to equip librarians with God's truth in both their personal and professional lives. 

Date: 18 July 2025

Venue: Zoom Online 

Speaker: Dr. Johan Jang
 

ScienceDirect and ONE UPH Library held an intitial training session as well as an introduction to the latest databases subscribed by the Library. The training session focused mainly on introducing the workarea and the various interesting tools and functions available in the database such as:

1. Filtering and advanced search features that help to improve the focus of article discovery according to the input data included.

2. Integration with Mendeley Reference Manager that helps in the process of inputting articles to this related reference application and simplifies the citation process

3. Anti-hacking feature that minimizes the potential for massive downloads using robots or systems.

4. Comparison of available journals to support the consideration process in selecting journals for article publication.

5. Informationabouttheprocessofpublishingarticlestojournalsavailableinthe ScienceDirect database which also contains information such as the length of waiting time until sending further information to the time span between the article submission process and the publication of articles in related journals.

At the end of the session, Pak Johan Jang expressed ScienceDirect's desire to be able to facilitate the academic needs of the UPH academic community, a similar vision is also shared by ONE UPH Library in educating and providing the latest information that can be used to support the ever-evolving academic needs.

Date: 08 July 2025 until Further Information 

Venue: The Johannes Oentoro Library, Lippo Village 

Description: 

Due to the ongoing renovation on C2, we would like to share the following information regarding changes on services of The Johannes Oentoro Library. 

1. Co-working area on the 4th floor will not be available until further notice 

2. The Johannes Oentoro Library will be closed on July 11, 2025 (Friday) due to the rearrangement of library collections from C2. 

3. Starting from Saturday, July 12, 2025, The Johannes Oentoro Library operational hours will be temporarily adjusted as follows until further notice: 

• Monday–Friday: 07.30–16.00 WIB

• Wednesday: 09.00–16.00 WIB 

• Saturday: Library Closed 

The library's digital collections remain accessible via : library.uph.edu

We kindly ask for your support in informing students within your departments about this temporary adjustment. 

Thank you for your attention and cooperation. 

Best regards, 

One UPH Library 

Date: 03 July 2025 

Venue: The Johannes Oentoro Library, Lippo Village 

Description:   

Today, July 3, 2025, Johannes Oentoro Library had the opportunity to receive a visit from Pelita Bangsa University Library. In his speech, Pak Hendra Thamrindinata as the first Vice President of Universitas Pelita Harapan expressed his hope for the library as a unit that is able to increase the understanding of the academic community (teaching lecturers, academic staff, and students) towards literacy while encouraging a love of books in the campus environment.  

Pak Dhama in the discussion also emphasized the paradigm shift of libraries and librarians from a passive role as information and collection managers to a more active role through active learning of various technologies including artificial intelligence-based technologies that emerged as the spirit of the 21st century so that libraries and librarians are still relevant and needed in society.  

During this visit, the two libraries exchanged ideas, experiences, and knowledge with the same goal of improving the quality of library services not only in the campus environment but also bringing bigger dreams, namely to contribute to advancing libraries in Indonesia. 

Date: 02 July 2025

Venue: MYC 2nd Floor, Lippo Village

Description: 

The rapid development of technology has introduced various artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to support the academic writing process, making it more effective and efficient. In response to this, ONE UPH Library, in collaboration with UPH HRD, organized a workshop focused on introducing AI tools that can assist in different stages of academic writing. 

The session covered several AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Elicit, Perplexity, Consensus, and Scispace for generating ideas and drafting articles more efficiently; ResearchRabbit and Connected Papers for discovering academic literature relevant to research topics; ChatPDF, PopAI, and DocAnalyzer to assist in reading and analyzing scientific papers; as well as Grammarly and Quillbot for improving grammar, structure, and overall writing quality. 

This workshop aimed to equip participants with the practical skills to utilize these AI tools for idea generation, literature discovery, article analysis, and enhancing writing accuracy and style. 

Participants showed great enthusiasm throughout the session and left with not only new knowledge and skills but also increased confidence and motivation to integrate AI tools into their writing process, enabling them to produce academic work more effectively and efficiently.