The use of a library’s collection should be monitored and the results should be taken into consideration in order to establish an effective and effi cient collection development and collection management policy. This paper ...

Bibliometric findings obtained through the analyses of articles published in journals are used to create scientific and technological road maps and to develop collection management policies in libraries. Yet such ...

The Turkish National Library has recently published the Bibliography of Articles of the Republican Era 1923-1999 (BARE) on CD-ROM. BARE is the most comprehensive bibliography that indexes the articles contained in ...

The aim of this study is to find out the characteristics of reading and public library use habits of selected primary school teachers in Ankara. Data were gathered through questionnaire that were filled out by 127 teachers ...

Web-based distance education has been providing low operational cost and means to solve problems of education in the various disciplines and fields of public and private sectors. It also creates opportunities such as ...

In this study, the relationship between society and infomation has been discussed in the contex of quality and quantity of societal instituons; literacy, reading habit, schooling ratio, quantity and quality of libraries, ...

In this study, library, as a social institution, is examined on the base of communication theory. Social communication expresses the social dimension of the communication. There are some meaningful relationships between ...

Turkey is one of the candidate countries for European Union (EU). In this study, Turkish public libraries have been compared with European Union countries' public libraries on the base of quantitative elements like library ...