Challenging the Profiles of a Digital Library: A Survey on Empowering Creators to Increase Creativity Regarding an International Interdisciplinary Conference

Abstract

This paper examines the EFL presenters' perception of viewing using digital library profiles on empowering creative presenters to an international conference. The data was collected for 4 months, starting from compiling three times surveys in October 2018 up to January 2019 in some conferences presenters. IAIN Tulungagung, UM, UNS, UI, and UNDIP campus in the sense of data collection, through the interview, and questionnaire. This study involves 30 Indonesian undergraduate students and 25 graduate students who were majoring in English, agriculture, literature, library, teaching language, Arabic and joint presentation in international interdisciplinary conferences. The presenter used and empowered the profiles of digital library in writing articles in some international conferences, held in some cities, namely East Java, Central Java, West Java, Indonesia. The data was analysed using a qualitative approach. The finding revealed that there were various presenters' perspectives in using the profiles of the digital library. The study also showed the benefits of using the digital library profiles such as online public access catalogue, links, feed display, category, E-resource; file E-book, LibX, Search box, management master file, web designer, proxy server, FTP server, mail server, database server and network administration. In addition, the profiles of the digital library encourage them to join the workshop of writing international article technique, know the ethic and strategy, fulfil the requirements of template paper, apply academic integrity, to be a member of research gate, and have ORCID ID. The results of this study proved that 76% of people give good feedback; most of them claimed that the digital library eases people into finding the desired book, saves time and effort; 28% felt challenged to be creative writers; while 54% chose to read literacy by digital library to add motivation to write or to be an author, writer or presenter.