Perpustakaan Masjid Gedhe Kauman (The Library of Masjid Gedhe Kauman)

Cinta Buku, Cinta Ilmu, Cinta Perpustakaan

(Love Books, Love Knowledge, Love Library)

BRIEF HISTORY

The establishment of Perpustakaan Masjid Gedhe Kauman was initiated in 1982 by the Takmir¹ of the Masjid. Housed by a Pajagan² building that is located in the complex of the Masjid, in 1995, the Library was awarded as the best Masjid Library in the Province of Special Region of Yogyakarta.

As the time went on, because of its limited number of staff, the library was closed from 2005 to 2015. Along with its newly set vision, the Library started to open again to serve people in February, 2015.

VISION

Making Perpustakaan Masjid Gedhe Kauman a center for Islamic Civilization Literature.

MISSIONS

1.      Providing premium service, i.e. an easy access to Islamic literature, so as to make it interesting for people to study about Islam scientifically.

2.        Improving people’s literacy by organizing various interesting and educating programs.

3.        Expanding cooperation with various boards/offices for its programs’ development.

4.        Creating the best environment for the librarians and readers to work and make achievements.

STAFF

Staffs are librarians that are in the system of Perpustakaan Masjid Gedhe Kauman management and fully responsible for the Library.

¹ the management of a certain Masjid

^{2 a building for guards (of the Masjid) in which they do their duties}

VOLUTEERS

Volunteers are volunteer librarians that are actively involved in running the Library’s programs and are active members of library communities. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, please do not hesitate to contact the management.

COLLECTION

1.        Religion

2.        Science

3.        Islamic Social and Culture

4.        Islamic Philosophy and Development

5.        General Law and Politics

6.        Al Quran and its Related Studies

7.        Hadits and its Related Studies, etc.

OPEN

Monday – Saturday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

FACILITY

1.        Air-conditioned room

2.        Free Wi-Fi

3.        Free mineral water

4.        Reading spots

5.        PC

PROGRAM

1.        Perpustakaan Keliling Kauman/Kauman Portable Library (every Monday, 4 – 5.15 p.m.)

2.        Muallaf guiding at Muallaf Center Yogyakarta (late afternoon Sunday)

3.        Free book borrowing (Monday – Saturday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.)

4.        Book Wakaf Movement (Monday – Saturday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.)

5.        Supplementary lesson for primary students (Wednesday – Thursday, 6.30 – 8.30 p.m.)

6.        Arabic Course (Tuesday night, Friday night and Saturday afternoon)