The overall purpose of this article is to describe the history, growth and development of school libraries in Turkey from 1923 to 2004. For now and the foreseeable future, school librarians will be simultaneously working ...

School libraries are indispensable adjuncts to education, a base for generating innovative thinking, a stimulus to culture, and an aid to individual self–development. The IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto, the qualitative ...

This study identifi es factors which contributed to the development of lifelong learning and literacy in Turkey from 1923 to 2010. Whilst a brief historical review is given of a range of policies which have aff ected the ...

Total quality management is one of the key elements to improving the effective ness of education and information services. By applying total quality management it is possible to judge what the libraries are doing well; to ...

Interactive media support the creation of people- centered systems that can clarify and simplify the coordination of human action. For interactive media to succeed, they need to fit gracefully into the lives of their ...

In this paper we examine the development of school libraries in Turkey. We have also included general information about the Turkish Education System and the Ministry of National Education which is responsible for improving ...