Minat Pustakawan dalam Meningkatkan Kualitas Sumber Daya Manusia Melalui Sertifikasi Uji Kompetensi (Studi di Perpustakaan Perguruan Tinggi Negeri di Propinsi Bengkulu)

The study discusses certification of competence test for professional librarians as efforts to improve the quality of human resources in the library. Method of the study is descriptive analytical. The result of the study showed that librarians at state academic libraries in the Province of Bengkulu had interests in improving their quality through certification of competence test. Fifty percent (50%) of librarians agreed on the importance of certification to improve quality of library human resources. Yet, some others considered that certification was not yet important because it was just a formality, as a condition for promotion and rank. Their actual purpose for joining certification was to get certification allowance. Since regulation on certification is not yet clear in terms of allowance and enforcement, some librarians were not very enthusiastic in joining certification.