Friends of The Library

Friends of the Library or commonly abbreviated as FLY was built by the Universitas Multimedia Nusantara Library in 2011. FLY was developed to establish synergies between UMN students, staff, and lecturers, form a community that plays a role in strengthening the position and role of libraries inside and outside UMN, and conducts various activities such as seminars, book reviews, workshops and exhibitions to promote the library.  

FLY started when several students did some projects with the library. As time goes by, FLY grows and develops into a community and a forum for library activities. FLY volunteered to help developing libraries. This activity is often referred to as social works. This social works program often helps to run contrivances in the library service division and collection development division.

Since its establishment in 2011, FLY has undergone numerous leadership changes. The first time it was founded, FLY was led by Christian Orvin, the then-Computer Systems year of 2012 student. Every student outside FLY who wants to join is allowed to become an active member. Read terms and conditions below:

Conditions for becoming a member of FLY:

1.    Active students of UMN

2.    Join all stages of FLY candidate selection, conducted by UMN Library annually

3.    Attend members' meetings at the library

4.    Contribute to FLY programs in particular and the library in general

Benefits of being a FLY member:

1. Act as the UMN library ambassador

2. Exlusive access to new books (prior to non-FLY members)

3. Get closer to all library staff

4. Many opportunities to gain experience, knowledge, and network!

     5. Get SKKM Point and Ceritificate by the end of membership year

 FLY Activities: 

1.    FLY Regular Meetings

FLY meetings can be conducted once or twice in a month, with various agendas such as fun games, sharing session, movie night, and mentoring. Members will get insight through intensive discussions with multipe experts, while also expanding their network with fellow FLY members from different faculties of UMN.

2.     UMN Literacy Week

A dinamic series of event with an ultimate goal - to nurture the academias' awareness about information and digital literacy. Programs such as talkshow, workshop, seminar, movie screening, treasure hunt, quiz and challenges are conducted during the week, and FLY members have an exclusive access to not only join all events, but also to become a commitee (worth one extra SKKM Point).

3.     Information Literacy Training

Every year, UMN Library conducts Information Literacy Training for UMN's freshmen and selected mentors would be chosen to assist students taking the course. Priority seats would be given to FLY members should they are interested to be a mentor. By the end of the program, an extra SKKM Point would be given for all mentors.