UMY Library held a Bibliobattle Batch 1 webinar on Tuesday (22/03/2022). Bibliobattle is a book review competition developed by the Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University in Japan. This game was booming in Japan around 2013. People who present books in bibliobattle are called bibliobattlers or book presenters. In this competition, each contestant conveys the contents of the book that is most interesting/impressive for them so that the audience also wants to know the full contents of the book in question. After that, the audience will vote for the book that the audience finds interesting.

The contestants in the Bibliobattle Batch 2 event were librarians from various Muhammadiyah University Libraries, including: Muhammad Jubaidi, SIP., M.A. (University of Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta), Dwi Cahyo Prasetyo, S.IP., M.A. (University of Muhammadiyah Pontianak), and Adhi Kurniawan, S.IP. (Universitas Muhammadiyah Gresik). This activity took place online via Zoom and was attended by approximately 100 participants from various backgrounds.

In the competition, each of them presented the contents of the book which was an impressive/memorable book for them. The first contestant was Muhammad Jubaidi, SIP., M.A. (Muhammadiyah University Yogyakarta). He shared a story about a book by Kahlil Gibran, entitled Dewi Khayalan. He explained about Kahlil Gibran's background as a literary writer, both romance and satire. On that occasion he revealed how legendary the work of Kahlil Gibran is which is still in demand by the younger generation.

The competition continued with the second contestant, namely Dwi Cahyo Prasetyo, S.IP., M.A. (University of Muhammadiyah Pontianak). He shared about a book entitled Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon. He shared how those of us who want to be creative tend to steal or rather be influenced by the creative process of people or groups that we think are cool. He explained that during life, whatever we create is a form of representation from references or experiences we have had. So that the character of our work is formed from various references that we have found. But is stealing really that important? Important, but it must be distinguished stealing on the connotations raised by Austin Kleon. Stealing Austin's version is stealing the creative process, not stealing the work. If you steal a work, it is included in the plagiarism category.

The last contestant is Adhi Kurniawan, S.IP. (Universitas Muhammadiyah Gresik). He shared about a book entitled Gence: Dissecting the Anatomy of a Digital Civilization - Tauhid Nur Azhar, et al. From the book, he tells of the figure of Tauhid Nur Azhar, who was his senior during his studies at Diponegoro University who had very broad insights. With a medical background, the author also specializes in his field as a neurologist. However, the author has obtained many insights in his book, not only in the field of neurology but in other fields such as psychology, history, archeology, and information technology. This can be taken as a lesson that in learning something we need something called studying the field to complement the knowledge of what we have learned during school or college.

The last session is voting that will be done by the audience by choosing the title of the book that the audience thinks is interesting. From the voting, it was found that the winner of the book chosen by the audience fell on the book entitled "Steal Like An Artist" by Austin Kleon, which was presented by Dwi Cahyo Prasetyo, S.IP., M.A. from University Muhammadiyah of Pontianak.

It is hoped that the implementation of this bibliobattle activity can become an arena for knowledge sharing, increase literacy and interest in reading, become an arena for bringing users closer to books, and hone courage in public speaking skills for bibliobattlers.