TRENDS IN LIBRARY SCIENCE RESEARCH TOPICS DURING THE PERIOD 2016-2019

The development of science can be measured through the number of publications related to a field of science, for example, the numbers of the results of field research and the results of literature studies. One form of research in the university is a thesis. These collections of theses can be used to determine the development of certain sciences. That is why every university requires its students and lecturers to remain active in publishing their writings. According to Sulistyo-Basuki (2009), the field of library science can anticipate the information explosion by developing it into a science that can be taught to the public. This department of library science is used as a forum to distribute and teach knowledge about libraries at various universities around the world. The Department of Library Science, Faculty of Adab and Humanities, UIN Alauddin Makassar, which was officially opened in 1999, is still actively educating its undergraduate students. This department offered a Bachelor of Library Science and has graduated a hundred scholars in the field. The alumni have also worked in various institutions or information centers and various types of libraries, like in school libraries, academic libraries, public libraries, and special libraries. The department will continue to make various efforts so that the alumni might have competencies that suit their needs and are ready to work well. One way to know the development of scientific disciplines is to measure the statistics of their publications, or what is commonly referred to as bibliometric studies. The department of library science at UIN Alauddin Makassar is an interesting study to know about the development of its publications. By mapping and analyzing thesis topics studied by the alumni, it can find out several things, namely:1) the most dominant topic written by the students, 2) interests and tendencies of students regarding the field of library science, 3) the direction of the development of library science. Thus, The Department of Library Science can revise the curriculum for some or all courses offered or determine a better research direction in the future. Writing a thesis is always related to the activity of citing other people's writings, it is an inseparable part of scientific writing activities (Hasugian, 2005). Bibliometrics can be used as citation analysis. This approach is one of the studies of library and information science. Through this approach, it can compare the types of forms, and the latest documents cited in the thesis bibliography. Besides that, Glanzel in Pattah (2013) stated that the object of bibliometric study can be done by analyzing types of scientific literature, such as books, monographs, research reports, theses, dissertations, and journal articles. This study will analyze the thesis of the Department of Library Science in UIN Alauddin Makassar about the trend of thesis topics and bibliometric studies. The study aims to determine; 1) the trend of thesis research topics in the department during the period 2016-2019, 2) The theses majors in the department in terms of the types of literature and literary language

The data were obtained from all thesis titles that have been written in the Department of Library Science, namely 336 theses during the period 2016-2019. The data is then grouped and displayed using Ms. Excel. From this subject analysis activity, keywords will be obtained to facilitate the process of bibliometric analysis of co-words analysis, as well as determining subject clusters. In addition to using co-words analysis, the researchers also use citation analysis. According to Sugiyono (2008), this method is a quantitative method used to find the structure of knowledge by grouping keywords from the scientific literature. 4. RESULTS AND FINDINGS The Numbers of Undergraduate Theses From 2016 to 2019, the Department of Library Science in UIN Alauddin Makassar had produced as many as 336 undergraduate theses, as shown in the table below. Table 1. Numbers of theses No Year Total 1 2016 74 2 2017 140 3 2018 79 4 2019 Total 43 336 Meanwhile, from all undergraduate theses, it is then categorized into 19 research topics as shown below. Tabel 2. Research topics No Topics Total % 1 Library collections 91 22,09 2 Librarian 50 12,14 3 Library service 34 8,25 4 Library users 34 8,25 5 Technology in library 33 8,01 6 Literation 21 5,10 7 Library management 20 4,85 8 Library promotion 14 3,40 9 Library design 8 1,94 10 Library organization 5 1,21 11 Digital library 5 1,21 12 Users’ education 4 0,97 13 Classification 4 0,97 14 Library facility 3 0,73 15 Non-print library collection 3 0,73 16 Regulation 2 0,49 17 Reading interest 2 0,49 18 Library 2 0,49 19 Archive 1 0,24 Total 336 100 % The types of documents cited There are various types of documents that are used by students as references in writing their theses as listed below. Table 3. Document types No Document Types Total % 1 Book 5766 81 2 Journal 454 6 3 Thesis 290 4 4 Internet 277 4 5 Master Thesis 183 3 6 Grey Literature 74 1 7 Dictionary 65 1 8 Proceeding 5 0 Total 7114 100 % The languages used Of the thousands of readings listed in the references section, there were only 2 languages of those readings, as shown below. Tabel 4. Languages used No Languages Total % 1 Indonesian 6561 92 2 English 533 8 Total 7094 100 %

The department of library science of UIN Alauddin Makassar had produced hundreds of undergraduate theses during the period 2016-2019. There are 336 theses in which categorized into 19 research topics. From these categories, 5 topics are most frequently studied which are Library Collections, Librarians, Library Services, Library Users, and Library Technology. While the types of documents cited as references in the theses are books. In addition, dictionaries, undergraduate theses, theses, grey literature, and proceedings are also the types of the document cited. Reading materials in the Indonesian language is still dominant. However, some theses refer to English reading materials. This research has implications for the formulation of new directions and objectives of research topics in the field of library science. In addition, lecturers can limit or provide students' views in choosing thesis topics that have been frequently studied by students and can direct students who will complete thesis final projects on topics that can be used as thesis research topics so that they can further develop and enrich future of library science