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Information policies and information centers
No full textAfter the World War II, advanced countries have undergone information-oriented formations that would affect all areas of social life. Information has not only become the basic element of production, it also has been the efficient factor in shaping the national politics and "information" based social structures. On account of this fact, the demand for information has risen and consequently information centers have turned into centers of attraction. As Turkey do not have any information policy that would regulate the national information systems and services, information centers, libraries, archives and in general the nation have been negatively effected. The existence of a national information policy would not only contribute to the socio-economic development of the Turkish Republic, it would also aid the Republic to carry out its vision of information society
The Journals in the Turkish technical university libraries and İstanbul Technical University Libraries
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Role and importance of corporate and technological changes for the productivity of information professionals
No full textToday, when knowledge becomes important, it becomes an element of capital, power and competition for organizations, the understanding of effective management of information has become important. Because information can be a power element, it must be able to be produced, managed and used according to the aims and objectives of the organizations. Information professionals are needed to effectively manage information and use it in the direction of organizations. The productivity of information professionals makes the enterprise information management process efficient. Today, when conditions change more rapidly and new technological developments and changes are experienced every day, both individuals and organizations are undergoing change processes in various periods at certain periods. New developments and changes in the emerging and changing world undoubtedly affect the knowledge professionals as well. This study examines the role and importance of organizational and technological change on the productivity of knowledge professionals
Derme oluşturma ve geliştirme: İ.Ü. Merkez Kütüphanesi’nde bütçe yönetimi (Nisan 1994 - Kasım 1997)
No full textRenovations in librarianship after 1960 in Turkey
No full textDescriptive and historical methods are used to explain the historical evolution of Turkish libraries and librarianship from 1960 to 2000. The tecnique utilized for the data collection in the study is the critical survey of the literature. It emphasizes the need for the innovations and continuous improvements according to the social structure in library and information services. It is determined that especially in research libraries, documentation and information services have been widely spreading all over the country for last 4 decades. However, it is expected that the making availabilty of information for each person, stemming from the organizing of a nationwide information system in the twentyfirst century, will hopefully be started soon. The departments which train librarians in universities are also preparing themselves to make all the necessary applications to adopt these changes
Üniversite kütüphanelerinde elektronik kaynaklara dayalı hizmetlerin geliştirilmesinde pazarlama yaklaşımının önemi
No full textThe main purpose of this study is to prove both in theory and application that university libraries, which present services based on electronic resources, could improve their available services by absorbing the marketing approach. The research methods that are used in the study are descriptive methods and documentary resource analysis. The data gathering methods used are: the analysis of the previous studies' published documents, survey, systematic illustration, interview and observation techniques. Investigation is composed of three sections. First, the main concepts and definitions of the subject are examined. In the second section, the methods of marketing approaches for the services in the university libraries which present services based on electronic resources are examined. In the last section, the marketing approach study which has been carried out in the Koç University Suna Kıraç Library, is presented and the results of this study are appeared in this section. This study is concluded with the appendix section which is composed of conclusion, bibliography and survey questions
The importance of big data for university libraries and its usage in library services: Ankara University Libraries case
No full textBig data can be considered as the beginning of a new era. With the effects of the big data while world is in a big transition, it is not seen as possible to keep libraries out of this big transition. Big data is evaluated for libraries under two basic chapters within the scope of this study: i. Place of big data in libraries` collection ii. Usage of big data in the library operations and services, and improvements of these operations and services In this transition, university libraries have a lot of responsibilities due to their structure and they should lead this transition. However it is very clear that big data is a new concept for libraries and in literature there are not many researches on the execution of big data in the libraries. This situation results in a negative environment in which occupation experts (data managers and librarians) neither have the awareness on the importance of the subject nor incentive and desire to develop themselves. To understand the level of the mentioned awareness, a research was conducted with the graduates of the occupation who works in Ankara University Library. In this conduct, a small survey was made with 28 librarians to measure the level of their information on big data and then, just after the survey, an informative presentation about big data was made in which 22 librarians attended. After the presentation another survey was conducted to these 22 librarians to understand whether awareness on big data were raised on not. Based on our study, it can be said that librarians who attended the presentation statistically significantly increased their knowledge on the basic levels of big data. Based on these results, it can be also seen how quickly librarians get adapt to the big data which may be also thought as a natural consequences of their occupation. Thus big data should be considered in the occupation of the librarianship and it can be said that education curriculums about big data would have positive contribution to libraries
Information retrieval problems in hybrid library
No full textHybrid libraries are library models which contain printed and electronic information resources together in its collection where all information resources are available for use as an integrated information service and which use online information retrieval systems, mostly. The information retrieval concept may be defined as the technique and process of information gathering, classification, cataloging, storing, searching out of large amount of data and to generating the desired information out of such data. In this study, an attempt was made to analyze the hybrid library model, information retrieval concept and information retrieval systems, the information retrieval problems faced by the user during searching the library catalogues in a hybrid library and origins of such problems. The study was supported by a user survey carried out in Istanbul University Central Library and the problems faced by users when using either card catalogs and also OPAC were identified. In conclusion, facilities provided to information retrieval systems by technological advances are not solely adequate for resolving the information retrieval problems of users. To ensure harmony between the librarian, system and user components, information and communication technologies must be perceived as a whole and this concept must be reflected to library services