School Library As Textbook Warehouse - Case Study at Elementary Schools in Singaraja City, Buleleng, Bali, Indonesia

The prevailing regulations in Indonesia stipulate that every school is required to have a library. This obligation is related to the function of the school library as a learning resource for teachers and students. However, the fact is that many school libraries do not function normally as seen in the elementary school libraries in Singaraja, Bali. Management does not follow standards so that the situation is similar to a textbook warehouse. This problem is interesting to be researched qualitatively by adhering to critical social theory. The results show the contributing factors, not only because of limited funds, but also because the staffs are not professional. This condition is reinforced by the internal power relations of the school which are linked to external power relations based on the ideology of permisivism, minimalism and binarism which simultaneously do not take sides with the normalization of the school library. This finding implies that the normalization of school libraries not only requires funding, but also improvements to various forms of power relations and the ideology that underlie them.