Starting from date 16 March 2020 lectures are carried out online. This is policies taken by the chancellor after a decree from the Center to implement them Online lectures see conditions that are not very conducive to carrying out lectures as usual. This happened due to the spread of the virus Covid-19 or commonly known as the corona virus. Therefore for avoid direct physical contact, students are required to remain at home and carry out lectures through existing e-learning applications agreed upon by each lecturer in charge of the course.

On the other hand, Units that directly serve Students are also affected by this regulation, campus closed and all employees are asked to work from home. No exception libraries also closed services. This makes students confused if you want to take care of/use the services available in the library. Until now There is no clarity regarding the online service mechanism without having to come directly to the library, which makes many students continue to wonder. Therefore, the library will provide clarification regarding policies Library services during the Covid-19 pandemic are as follows :

1. Accessing book collections

Students can still access books without having to come directly to the library, because the library is currently subscribing to the collection electronic books via the E-PUSTAKA application. This application can be downloaded by two versions, namely the Android version on Playstore/Appstore and the Windows version on desktop application.

Apart from that, the library also provides several link address to access a collection of e-journals and other e-books for free. Here are some addresses that can be accessed :

• Central UPT online services IAIN Tulungagung Library :
• EBSCO (e-book and e-journal)

http://search.ebscohost.com

username : iainta password : IAINTULUNGAGUNG@1

• E-Journal IAIN Tulungagung

http://ejournal.iain-tulungagung.ac.id

• Information sources outside IAIN Tulungagung :

E-BOOK

1. National Library of the Republic Indonesia (Perpusnas)

https://e-resources.perpusnas.go.id

• DOAB

https://www.doabooks.org/

• Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/

E-TURNAL

1. One Search

https://onesearch.id/

• Garuda Dikti

http://id.portalgaruda.org or http://garuda.ristekdikti.go.id

• Institute of Science Indonesia (LIPI)

http://www.jurnal.lipi.go.id/

• Directory of Open Access Journals (Doaj)

https://doaj.org/

• Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/

• Academia

https://www.academia.edu/

• Research Gate

https://www.researchgate.net/

• Investigate

https://www.neliti.com/id/

THESIS

1. RAMA

http://rama.ristekbrin.go.id/

• Open ONLY

https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/view/repository_by_country/countries=5Fby=5Fregion.htm

2. Final assignment access : thesis, thesis, and dissertation

For students who cannot access their final assignments because the library is closed, You can temporarily access the IAIN Tulungagung repository via the link address www.repo.iain-tulungagung.ac.id. Students can search by subject, year, faculty, document type, and writer.

3. Borrowing and returning books

Borrowing books while the library is closed cannot be done, Instead, collection access is directed at electronic collections, namely e-books and e-journals as explained above. Then regarding returning the book, if a student has a book loan and cannot return it because the library is closed, then fines that have already been paid will not be calculated. New fines will be calculated once library services reopen. So fines will not be calculated while the library is closed.

4. Free library service

For students who want to apply for a library exemption certificate, Because the library is closed, services are provided online through the following mechanism:

Writer : Library Team