Search

Reading is a culture that is almost degraded nowadays; even the culture of reading through books has become extinct, replaced by watching gadgets. The revitalization of literacy culture is certainly not easy in the midst of rapidly developing technology. TBM (Community Reading Park) Weed Learning House (RBI) bridges the literacy revitalization process for children in Tahunan, Jepara. The research was carried out through participatory service involving students of UIN Walisongo who were gathered in the Programmed Initiative KKN Mandiri program as a form of student anxiety about the decline in children's interest in reading. The mentoring activities resulted in the realization of reading culture assistance for children through the active RBI TBM by holding Mbelik Mili, Friday Familiar, and Sunday reading. In addition, efforts to improve literacy culture have resulted in the continuous development of RBI assistance because there is an interest in literacy in children by creating a reading culture, continuous development of mentoring in RBI through the government and stakeholders in Jepara, the need for the development of adequate facilities in TBM RBI, the need for stakeholder support holders in the community.

This article discusses counselling communication found in Walisongo State Islamic University Semarang. Students in completing their final assignment are facing internal and external problems. Therefore counseling communication is needed to identify student problems preventively. Counselling communication techniques are carried out with verbal communication, vocal communication and body communication. This reserach uses descriptive qualitative approach. The data is gathered through in-depth interview, observation, and documentation. The research result shows that counselling communication which was conducted by the guardian lecturers using verbal communication could not maximally carried out due to lack of information of students who rarely interacted with the lecturers.