The law and policy of library development: A legal text analysis of Indonesian library bills

The Indonesian constitution provides for welfare and education. To achieve these constitutional mandates, the Indonesian government passed several laws as the foundation for lifelong education, including the Library Act of 2007 and the National Repository Act of 2018. These Acts are the main legal f...

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Published inAlexandria (Aldershot) Vol. 33; no. 1-3; pp. 49 - 63
Main Authors Ali, Irhamni, Ryan, Sarah E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.12.2023
Subjects
library legal corpus analysis
topic modeling
library legal policy analysis
legal text analytics
national library
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Summary:The Indonesian constitution provides for welfare and education. To achieve these constitutional mandates, the Indonesian government passed several laws as the foundation for lifelong education, including the Library Act of 2007 and the National Repository Act of 2018. These Acts are the main legal foundation for the National Library of Indonesia (NLI) to create public policies in library service development across Indonesia. This study seeks to understand these laws through Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) Topic Modelling. Using these methods, we uncovered the major themes of these legal mandates for library services. Our research revealed five topics for each law. We then analyzed the NLI budgets from 2021 to 2023 to see how the key legal mandates were implemented. We found greater implementation of the 2007 Act than the 2018 Act. Our study offers new methods for library law and policy research.
ISSN:0955-7490
2050-4551
DOI:10.1177/09557490241236949