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Interior architecture in public libraries
No full text"Building" is one of the five main elements that constitute the library. The interior of the building must be designed according to workflow of the library, residence necessity of the library users and personnel since a public library carries its facility within this space. It benefits from the interior architecture, designing library interior spaces. To be able to examine the matter extensively, it is essential to determine the spatial functions and specialties of buildings still serving as libraries. In this frame the main aim of our survey could be defined as "to ascertain the spatial and aesthetical conditions and reasons for these conditions of the public libraries in Ankara". The identified problem of the survey is: "Why are the libraries in Ankara insufficient function an aesthetic?" The hypothesis of this survey in accordance of survey's objective and problem is: "The libraries in Ankara are not fit to principles of interior architecture and they are inadequate to aesthetic and spatial functions". In the framework of the survey, a questionnaire is applied to the library users. In this thesis, the interior spaces of the public libraries in Ankara are examined according to basic principles of the interior architecture art. Nevertheless, it is considered the component of the interior architecture, the function and workflow of a public library and the interior spaces of three public libraries in Ankara. Our investigation end of not being mostly seen any affirmative application in public libraries' interior spaces in Ankara
A Research on the information literacy skills of preservice teachers: Sampling of Sakarya University
No full textAs the increase in the quantity and the quality of the information makes the lifelong learning compulsory for all the members of the society, lifelong learning requires improvement of some skills like information literacy skills. Equipping individuals with the information literacy skills, such as defining the information needs, searching, finding, using and communicating information, during their formal education requires that the teachers should posses these skills. Therefore, it is getting important for teacher candidates to graduate from the Faculty equipped with information literacy skills. The findings of this research carried out on the senior students attending Sakarya University Faculty of Education show that library facilities they owe as well as the education they get don't let their information literacy skills to improve. Findings also prove that they are willing to attend information literacy training programs
Continuing education in librarianship: A survey on Ankara University libraries
No full textThe concept of life long learning is also involves continuous education. Continuous education has an important role in improving professional knowledge of librarians. Librarians have been benefiting from continuous education to meet their education needs in the context of their professional formation which shows rapid development and changes. This particular study aims to answer the question of "how could an education program for university librarians' professional improvement be developed?" It was hypothesized as "the adaptation of professional improvement could be provided by continuous education program which is organized according to the university librarians' needs, and points out responsible institution and individuals for this particular education". Descriptive research method that involves literature analysis, questionnaires and interviews was used. The questionnaire which includes 28 questions was answered by 101 librarians. 33 interviews were conducted with head of library schools and presidents of library associations. The hypothesis was confirmed as a result of study
Job satisfaction of support staff in the university libraries
No full textThe libraries must employ sufficient and qualified in order to provide an effective and productive service. Besides, it should be always remembered that the productivity of the staff member at work is directly in contact with his physical and psychological health. It is known that, a staff member who has job satisfaction increases his performance and productivity. The subject of this research is the staff without an education of librarianship. In spite of their quantitative majority among the university library personel, there are a few researches about this staff. In this study the job satisfaction level of the support staff and the positive or negative effects resulting from personal specifications or the job itself were examined. The hypothesis of the study is "The job satisfaction level of the staff without education of librarianship working at the university libraries is low following the negative effects of the economic based matters." With this purpose, the university libraries in Ankara, Bilkent University Library, Başkent University Library, Hacettepe University Beytepe Central Library and the Hacettepe Central Library, Middle East Technical University Library and Gazi University Central Library are included in the context of this study. 137 support staff members in these libraries built the sampling unit of the study. Feedback were received from 115 members of this sampling unit and according to this number, the participation rate is 83,9 %. The data was collected through a questionnaire. The first section of the questionnaire, includes questions about personal information of the support staff. The second section are questions revealing the positive or negative factors, which effect the job satisfaction. Job satisfaction is a difficult matter to measure because different factors are in question. To clarify this matter global methods have been searched and Paul Spector's Job Satisfaction Survey, which is one of these methods, has been considered as an appropriate method. The second section of this questionnaire includes this survey. According to the results of this study, it comes out that pay, promotion, fringe benefits, contingent rewards and operating procedures are the 5 negative factors and nature of work, supervision, coworkers and communication are the 4 positive factors on the job satisfaction of the support staff. By defining the positive and negative factors, a clear difference is to be seen between the two groups. It comes out, that the economic based factors have negative effects on job satisfaction. All the positive factors have a background consisting on moral subjects like ideas, feelings, communication and judgement capability
Knowledge/information management in the Development Planning and organizational klowledge/information policy model for the state planning organization
No full textThe purpose of this qualitative research is to introduce an Institutional Knowledge/Information Policy Model for the State Planning Organization (SPO) responsible for the development planning in Turkey. The hypothesis of this research is "the lack of a well-defined institutional knowledge/information (K/I) policy within SPO is the main cause for failure in the management of the K/I activities and information services in collaboration with all related departments." The Model is constructed by using the Grounded Theory Method. The current situation within SPO has been analysed on the basis of a questionnarie conducted in six units related to information services, and, of the semi-structured interviews conducted in 20 departments responsible for the development planning. The concepts, findings and the relationships among them have been examined step by step. It can be concluded that no functional K/I policy exists within SPO. In this context, it has been observed that there are deficincies in development of such fields as a common language for K/I management, an electronic environment at the disposal of planning experts, the qualities of persons responsible for the K/I management, the knowledge map for the development planning, the efficiency and effectivenes criteria for the K/I management and policy, an integrated mechanism based on K/I management and policy processes, the integration of existing information systems in SPO, and, an organizational structure within SPO for the K/I management and policy. The Institutional Knowledge/Information Policy Model for the SPO includes Informatizational Development Planning Theory, the infrastructural requirements of the theory (K/I Management Tools), and, the projects to be implemented. By using this Model, it is expected that the development planning processes in Turkey can be managed more efficiently by integrating the related K/I activities with the supportive information services
Turkish libraries and librarianship in the republican period
No full textIn this work we will try to discuss the changes that took place on the Turkish Libraries on its historical events and legal system beside the bases upon which the legal system was built. This changes on the book system and libraries has took a new meanings, aims, targets and services with the establishment of the Republican Goverment in Turkey. This changes has been discussed upon laws, instruction and regulations. This changes on the Turkish libraries system has a great deal of importance influce not only on the libraries and librarians but also on the Turkish educational system as well. This work has been based largely upon information gleaned from documents in the Republican's Archives and Journal of Ministry of Education
The portrait of information managers: Functions and qualities
No full textThis study proposes that profile, features and functions of an information manager are the same in Australia, England and USA. The purpose of this study is making a detailed evaluation of the profile, features and functions of an information manager, and indicating similarities and differences by analyzing the results of the study with quantitative methods. In order to examine profile and features of information managers, job advertisements have been searched by considering job description as a basic tool. Last five years' job advertisements were examined for this study. In order to ascertain the job advertisements which are published outside Turkey, the biggest mailing lists were researched for historical and modern archives areas. The information within advertisements were entered onto a database for making quantitative analysis. Then, this VIII information was examined according to different quantitative scopes. The study ends with conclusion and bibliography sections
Bilgi ve belge yönetimi bölümleri son sınıf öğrencilerinin meslekleri hakkında görüşleri
No full textUniversity education has a significant role on the youngsters’ lives, determining the lifelong profession they will have. It is observed that, a choice of profession made with enthusiasm and self-awareness of personal and professional skills is necessary for personal satisfaction and professional success. A society which is consisted of successful and satisfied people can proceed in the right way and only such societies can establish a ground for right values to develop. In order to improve the culture of democracy and strengthen its basis in our country, it is important to reach the thoughts of information professionals and determine the way they choose in their career. This study, which includes students who are in their final year of their undergraduate education of Information Management, aims to reveal the ideas of students about their profession. With this study, students’ personal features, reasons for their choice of this profession, their perspective about this profession, their thoughts about the quality of the education they had in the universities, their satisfaction or dissatisfaction about choosing this profession are presented. A specifically prepared questionnaire is used to obtain the information, and this information is evaluated, analyzed and concluded with the proposals about the things that need to be done during professional education and afterwards
Increasing the visibility and usage of cultural heritage objects with the digital humanities approach: A proposal of a conceptual model for Turkey
No full textCultural heritage connects the past with the future by forming an integral part of the identities of societies. Countries must create policies for ensuring that people benefit today and passing it on to future generations by protecting their cultural heritage. In this context, it seems that the policies carried out until the time we are inside are inadequate. In Turkey, many cultural objects have disappeared for a variety of reasons (natural, economic, urbanization, disaster, etc.) and still face this danger. With globalization, it has become necessary to increase access to cultural heritage beyond physical protection, to ensure participation and to evaluate practices from an international perspective. For these requirements, developing information and communication technologies are used. Today, it is possible to have knowledge about and interact with a cultural objects existing in any part of the world through works done with digital humanities approach. At this point, a conceptual model was created to increase the visibility and usage of Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute Manuscripts, The Hittite cuneiform tablets from Bogazköy, The Works of Ibn Sina in the Süleymaniye Manuscript Library, Evliya Çelebi's "Book of Travels" in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library and the Süleymaniye Manuscript Library, and The Old Assyrian Merchant Archives of Kültepe in Turkey registered in the UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme in digital environment. In this model, which is prepared with the approach of digital humanities, best practices in the literature applied in this field are taken as examples. Suggestions are made about how to use digital humanities tools to reveal the economic, social and cultural values of objects based on the model and to increase their accessibility and visibility. Despite the fact that in recent years a wide range of digitization works of cultural heritage seen in cultural memory institutions, it cannot be said that these works have reached its full purpose. The reason for this is that most of the digitized works are still not accessible to the users in the web environment. In fact, two of the five works have not been opened to Internet access since they have been digitized. The other three works are not yet digitized on collection basis. In addition, there are no studies to increase the visibility of these works in the world and thus to create aesthetic, historical and social values in the mind of humanity related to these heritage. Instead of these independent studies, a holistic approach is needed in which all sectors are involved. Turkey will not be able to benefit from its present rich heritage economically, socially and culturally enough, as long as technological developments, budgets devoted to the application of these developments over cultural heritage, and policies that play a role in shaping these developments are not met contemporary