Era kemajuan teknologi seperti sekarang ini, anak-anak cenderung lebih suka bermain-main dengan telepon pintar ketimbang membaca buku, padahal buku merupakan jendela dunia. Dimana melalui buku, kita dapat mengetahui banyak informasi di dunia luar. Memang tak dapat dipungkiri sekolah pun saat ini menggunakan telepon pintar dalam pembelajaran, namun peranan buku tentu tak dapat dilupakan begitu saja. Anak-anak saat ini menjadi asing dengan buku karena adanya hal tersebut. Penulis ingin menghidupkan kembali budaya literasi melalui revitalisasi perpustakaan. Revitalisasi perpustakaan dilakukan di MI Muhammadiyah Jambangan. Revitalisasi ini menggunakan metode difusi ipteks. Difusi ipteks yang dimaksud ialah membangun kembali perpustakaan MI Muhammadiyah Jambangan yang telah lama tidak aktif agar dapat memberikan manfaat bagi peserta didik khususnya dan warga sekolah pada umumnya. Perpustakaan MI Muhammadiyah Jambangan didukung dengan buku penunjang seperti buku pelajaran, cerita atau buku lainnya yang berhubungan dengan pendidikan. Dengan adanya sarana dan prasarana tersebut, kegiatan membaca di perpustakaan menjadi lebih menyenangkan. Peserta didik sangat antusias dengan adanya perpustakaan ini. Setiap hari selalu ada peserta didik yang berkunjung ke perpustakaan untuk sekedar membaca buku. Hal ini tentu dapat mempengaruhi peningkatan minat baca peserta didik di MI Muhammadiyah Jambangan. Peningkatan minat baca diperlukan agar peserta didik mampu menyerap pengetahuan sebanyak-banyaknya sehingga mampu bersaing di kancah nasional maupun internasional.

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This research aimed at analysing teenagers' character education through motivating sentences and further identifying the themes of motivating sentences composed by the teenagers. The study belonged to qualitative research. Objects of the study consisted of the texts of motivating sentences written by the teenagers. Data cellection was done through documentation of the students' writings related to motivating sentences. Method of the data analysis was carried out through descriptive technique and a content analysis was applied to examine the data collected. The findings show that the motivating sentences arranged by the students or teenagers contained some character educations theme such as struggle, education, ambition, family, divinity and care.

The newspaper enables the readers to obtain enlightenment, particularly moral values. Moral values can be obtained through obituary writing in newspapers. This study aimed at elaborating the reference, author’s perspective, the technique of collecting material, role assertion, contribution to writing biography, and motive in the obituary. The data were obtained through a documentation technique; while the data source was attained from printed newspapers called Kompas Indonesia in 2015–2017. The data source is only drawn from the newspaper Kompas since Kompas is the only newspaper that gives a special column on the issue. This study applies a referential identity method and marker reading technique.  In analyzing the data, this present research applied referential method, marker-reading technique, and pragmatic identity method as well as pedagogic and hermeneutic approach. Based on the analysis of the data as presented in this article, the obituary texts are potential to become a learning material in Indonesian language education, particularly in elementary school. The inspirational figures can further impact on students’ character building. Keywords: obituary, character building, motives, reference, Kompas