PERANAN PERPUSTAKAAN SEKOLAH DALAM MENINGKATAN MINAT BACA SISWA SMAN 1 KINTAMANI I Gede Anto 1 , Made Kastawa 2 , Richard Togarata Ginting 3 FakultasIlmuSosialdanIlmuPolitikUniversitasUdayana Email: putraantora95@gmail.com 1 ,made.kastawa@gmail.com 2 ,richardtogaranta@unud.ac.id 3 ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to determine the role of school libraries in improving interest in reading high school students I Kintamani. The benefit of this research is expected to be a useful input for improving the quality school library function as a learning resource center in SMAN 1 Kintamani in the future. Library is a room used to store books and other publications that are usually stored according to a particular arrangement called the classification of grouping a book or other obiects into a class or a particular class. The school library is a library in the school as a means of education to support the achievement of preschool goals, primary education and secondary education. Collections in the library of SMAN 1 Kintamani are good enough, have supported the academic community in the field of education, but the new books must be updated and old books in the library needs maximum care because it is still in need by pemustaka as a means of information and refrensi. The results of this study found that the visit to the library (70 respondents = 27 %) the time to the library (75 respondents = 28.8%), the collection of interest (69 respondents = 26.5%), the number of collections in the read (79 respondents (21.9%), library influence on reading interest (107 respondents = 41.2%), students reading reading (74 respondents = 28.5%), collection utilization (99 respondents = 38%), reading interest (131 respondents = 50.4%) librarian helped find the collectonn (90 respondents = 34.6%), librarian gave guidance (109 respondents = 41.9%). Keywords: School Library, Collection Utilization 1. PENDAHULUAN Perpustakaan adalah suatu sistem informasi yang menyediakan berbagai aktivitas pengumpulan, pengolahan, dan penyajian data yang berkaitan dengan ilmu pengetahuan yang dapat menambah wawasan atau informasi yang baru. Perpustakaan pada saat ini di pergunakan sebagai tempat untuk mencari informasi, sebagai media pembelajaran siswa, penelitian, rekreasi, pelestarian khas budaya bangsa indonesia, serta memberikan berbagai macam manfaat. Pada umumnya orang-orang berpendapat bahwa perpustakaan merupakan suatu tempat yang hanya menyediakan berbagai macam jenis buku tanpa mengetahui pasti manfaat atau fungsi dari perpustakaan tersebut. Oleh karena itu, factor-faktor tersebut dapat berpengaruh terhadap kemajuan atau perkembangan suatu perpustakaan. Kemajuan perpustakaan sekolah sebagai salah satu tolak ukur keberhasilan prestasi belajar karena perpustakaan sebagai penyedia informasi, khususnya bagi para