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General Information

Full Name Faizhal Arif Santosa
Position Librarian
Email faiz005[at]brin.go.id

Education

  • 2025 - 2026
    MSc
    University of Sheffield Information School, England
    • Data Science
  • 2015 - 2018
    Bachelor degree (S.I.Pust.)
    Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia
    • Library and Information Science

Experience

  • 2021 - Present
    Librarian
    The National Research and Innovation Agency of The Republic of Indonesia
    • Serving under the Directorate of Repositories, Multimedia, and Scientific Publishing and managing the academic library under the Polytechnic Institute of Nuclear Technology.
  • 2020 - 2021
    Librarian
    Badan Tenaga Nuklir Nasional (BATAN)
  • 2018 - 2020
    School Librarian
    SMK Negeri 1 Bawang, Banjarnegara
  • 2018 - 2018
    School Librarian
    SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Yogyakarta

Open Source Projects

  • 2022 - Present
    Coconut Libtool
    • Web-based tool for helping and accelerating library service. From librarians to librarians. The Coconut Library Tool is the all-in-one data mining and textual analysis tool for librarians or anyone interested in these applications. Our tool does not require any prior knowledge of coding or programming, making it approachable and great for users who want to test out these data analysis and visualization techniques.

Honors and Awards

  • 2019
    • Best Librarian of Banjarnegara

Interests

  • Data
  • Textual analysis
  • Scholarly communication
  • Open science

Talks

  • 2025
    Guest Speaker Academic Session
    The University of Oklahoma, School of Library and Information Studies
    • Guest speaker at the academic session for undergraduate students.
  • 2025
    Speaker
    Polytechnic Institute of Nuclear Technology
    • Speaker for an event held by the Student Research Activity Unit called Hare Rise. Deep discussion about research and scholarly communication in 8 days.
  • 2025
    Speaker
    Universitas YARSI
    • Speaker for a webinar about how to conduct a systematic literature review using Catchii for students, librarians, and lecturers.
  • 2024
    Co-supervisor
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences
    • Co-supervisor for a project during the Spring 2024 semester for the courses IS 579 Guided Research Experience and IS 189 Independent Study.
  • 2023
    Speaker (Lightning talk)
    Nebraska Library Commission
    • Joined to give a lightning talk about how to use technology to cope with the workload at the 2023 Big Talk From Small Libraries.