A Creative Library Management in Digital Era in Indonesia from Psychopragmatic Perspective

Library management is a center controlling libraries in a digital era. Libraries need creative managers to get power in carrying out planning, implementation, evaluation, and follow-up using a psychopragmatic perspective. The problems are (1) how creative library management in the digital era in Indonesia is, (2) how to strengthen librarians’ competencies in managing a creative library in the digital era, (3) how to create creative strategies and information technology-based innovation in managing creative libraries in Indonesia, and (4) how the effort of creative library management in understanding characteristics and objectives of library users using the psychopragmatic approach. The method was descriptive qualitative with the psychopragmatic approach. The data collection techniques used interviews, observation, and active participation to obtain the data. They were then analyzed by interactive techniques, in terms of a deductive technique to answer research problems. The result indicates that (1) the creative library management of digital era in Indonesia regarding psychopragmatic perspective is necessarily started by changing library managers’ and librarians’ mindset, (2) strengthening librarians’ soft skills is considered significant in this management, (3) this management certainly needs information technology-based creativity and innovation to provide various information literacies, and (4) this management needs psychopragmatic approach. Therefore, the creative library management in the digital era in Indonesia based on the psychopragmatic perspective is actualized and useful for librarians to support the acceleration of information and knowledge literacies in the industrial revolution 4.0 era.