Future Librarians from the Eyes of Public Library Staff in Turkey

İrem Soydal, Seda Öz & Umut Al

{soydal, sedaoz, umutal}@hacettepe.edu.tr

Future Librarians from the Eyes of

Public Library Staff in Turkey

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Plan

 Librarianship in Turkey

 About Librar-e Turkey

 Methodology

 Findings

 Conclusion

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Librarianship in Turkey

 1954 => First LIS Bachelor’s program in Turkey

 Librarianship => Information Management (2002)

 New programs in different universities

 Kastamonu (2007)

 Çankırı Karatekin (2010)

 Yıldırım Beyazıt (2011)

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Public Libraries in Turkey

 The structure of centralized system

 Role of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism

 Role of the General Directorate of Libraries and Publications

 As of the end of 2014 =>

 1,118 public libraries

 The number of library staff: 3,595

 The number of books: 17,111,825

 The number of registered users: 1,209,766

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Some Facts About Public Library Staff in Turkey

Educational qualification N %

Graduate of librarianship program 527 14.7

University graduate excluding librarianship program 1086 30.2

High school graduate 1371 38.1

Secondary school graduate 402 11.2

Elementary school graduate 209 5.8

Total 3595 100.0

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Some Facts About Public Library Staff in Turkey

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Some Facts About Public Library

Staff in Turkey

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Some Facts About Public Library Staff in Turkey

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About Librar-e Turkey

 Global Libraries Initiative

 28-months planning and piloting project (started as of July, 2013)

 26 provinces

 Chosen from 2nd level category of

“Nomenclature of Territorial Units for

Statistics”, by Turkish Statistical Institute

 78 pilot libraries in seven geographic regions

 One province public library, two district public

libraries

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Method

 Survey of Public Library Staff Vision

 One page questionnaire

 Four descriptive questions

 25 questions (Likert type)

 Qualifications that should be in public library staff

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Design of the Questionnaire

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Findings

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Perceived Library Staff Quality

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Perceived Library Staff Quality

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Competency

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Competency

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Importance vs Competence

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Conclusion and Further Studies

 Training plans

 Librarianship courses

 Departments of Information Management

 Online content

 Collaboration with TLA and GDLP

 Countrywide research

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Acknowledgments

 Global Libraries Initiative of the Bill &

Melinda Gates Foundation

 General Directorate of Libraries and Publications of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey

 Hacettepe Technopolis-Technology

Transfer Center

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İrem Soydal, Seda Öz & Umut Al

{soydal, sedaoz, umutal}@hacettepe.edu.tr

Future Librarians from the Eyes of Public Library Staff in Turkey

7th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, 26-29 May 2015, Paris, France