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 ...

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 ...

The goal of the study to find out why the public librarians need for in-service training, the extent of their needs, qualifications and what kind of an in-service training they need. For the collection of data, a questionnaire ...

Turkey has officially started to the negotiation to access to the European Union with the decision of heads of states and prime ministers of EU countries on October 3, 2005. This means that a new stage has started for ...

In this study, opinions and awareness levels of directors and librarians working in the province public libraries in Turkey on lifelong learning were analyzed, the opportunities of public libraries were tried to be ...

Job satisfaction, which signifi es an individual’s happiness in his/her occupation, is a multidimensional case that aff ects success and productivity at work, in general terms and in the fi eld of librarianship. This article ...

This study is carried out in order to reveal the local managers’ approaches about “transferring public libraries to local authorities” which has been intensely argued for the last three-four years in Turkey. Within this ...

The aim of the study is “to determine whether there are appropriate conditions or not for the realization of the transferring in terms of the special provincial administrations by getting opinions of special pro-vincial ...

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 ...

In this study, a general evaluation of the serials called Public Libraries Regional Seminars practiced as an authentic in-service training model between the years of 2006-2012 in Turkey has been made. According to this, ...