Library Science and Administration

Purpose The main aim of this paper is to describe the development of a scale designed to measure self‐efficacy for information literacy. Design/methodology/approach Cronbach's alpha, item analysis and item discrimination indices, principal component analysis, varimax rotation, and discriminant validity were used to me…

• BUKET AKKOYUNLU

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• BEYZA AKSU DÜNYA

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Background: People experiencing homelessness (PEH) have a higher prevalence of adverse health outcomes and premature mortality compared to the non-homeless population. These include a higher burden of cancer and cancer-specific morbidity and mortality-outcomes that may be a consequence of significant barriers to acces…

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how an academic library’s Student Experience Survey was revised and improved based on available research on survey design methodology and piloting efforts. Thus, it aims to contribute existing literature on library assessment and survey methodology by addressing issues o…

• BEYZA AKSU DÜNYA

The purpose of this paper is to analyze public librarians’ perspectives on the future of public libraries in Turkey. The research is arranged under six headings as follows: the state of overall change in public libraries; services; lifelong learning and information literacy; technology; administration and collection;…

After the transition to the information society, our world is in a fast and massive transformation in social, cultural, political and economical terms. This transformation process affects almost all organizational structures. One of the structures that is affected of this process is the library with its culturally and…

Küresel toplum ve bilgi çağının istemleri kütüphaneciliği yeniden biçimlendirmiş ve teknolojinin kullanımı da, günümüz dünyasında ekonomik, kültürel ve iletişimsel devrimi kabul ettirmiş ve geliştirmiştir. Taslak niteliğindeki bu ilkeler, Çocuklar ve Genç Yetişkinler İçin Kütüphaneler Bölümü Sürekli Komitesi üyeleri t…

Reports results of a sociological and demographic study of public library users in Ankara, Turkey, in order to determine the level of public use and to isolate the factors affecting this usage. A thorough survey of the history and statistics of Turkish public libraries is followed by the results of the user survey, em…

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• BERRİN BALKAŞ YILMAZ

The present study offers an overview of the public library system in Turkey and evaluates the libraries from various aspects in the context of the past decade. Public libraries in Turkey are governed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. As of the end of 2013, there are 1118 public libraries in Turkey with more than…

• SİNAN AKILLI

In this study, industrialisation has been evaluated in the context of social change theory. Industrialisation as a period of social change is the source of public library development. The public library has emerged as a result of the changes in educational and cultural structure caused by industrialisation. Public lib…