<![CDATA[This study describes school library management in enhancing students' reading interest at UPTD SDN Kuanino, Kupang City, focusing on the planning, organizing, actuating, and controlling functions and the role of library human resources. Methods: A qualitative descriptive approach was used, with data from observation, interviews, and documentation involving five purposively selected informants: the principal, library manager, a classroom teacher, and two students, analyzed using Miles and Huberman's interactive model of data reduction, display, and conclusion drawing. Results: The four management functions show basic elements, including a library vision and mission, a formal structure, book-lending services, and manual recording of visits and loans, yet none has been implemented optimally. Written programs and SOPs are absent, the manager also teaches a subject and lacks a library-science background, staff coordination remains informal, and periodic evaluation is lacking. These conditions are reflected in students' reading interest, which remains suboptimal across the indicators of enjoyment, awareness, frequency, and quantity, since library visits still depend on teacher direction rather than student initiative. Novelty: Unlike prior studies on library optimization or reading-interest programs, this study analyzes the interaction between George R. Terry's POAC functions and library human-resource capacity as joint determinants of reading interest in primary schools. ]]>
