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Objective: This paper aims to find out the factors that are likely to increase the citation impact of Turkey-addressed international papers. Method: For this purpose, we downloaded bibliographic records of some 226,000 TR-addressed papers that were published between 2006 and 2015, there from selected a sample (2%) using stratified probabilistic sampling technique, and obtained relevant data from various sources such as the number of citations and coauthors, journal impact factors (JIF) and journal quartiles pertaining to each paper in the sample. We then identified 19 independent variables on article, journal, cooperation, support and access levels and analyzed the data using the hurdle model. Findings: The strongest factors increasing the number of citations of TR-addressed papers are five-year JIFs and journal quartiles (Q1) in which TR-addressed papers appeared and the number of references in papers' reference lists. These factors also reduce the number of papers with zero citations. Papers published in cooperation with other countries collect higher numbers of citations. Factors such as the subjects of papers, whether papers received monetary support or not, and methods by which papers can be accessed (open or closed access) have no impact on the number of citations received. Implications: Findings indicate that academic promotion and support policies encouraging publishing in high impact journals while forestalling publishing in low impact journals should be developed in order to increase the scientific impact of TR-addressed papers. Originality: This is the first study using hurdle model to investigate the direct impact of several article, journal, collaboration, monetary support and access level explanatory variables on the number of citations that TR-addressed papers receive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This notice of correction was written on the detection that some of the journals in the paper entitled "A Research on Turkey-Addressed Dropped Journals from Web of Science" were not removed from the Web of Science. This was mainly due to the change of names of journals and their ISSNs. Since the information about the journals that were removed from the Web of Science were obtained from Clarivate Analytics, there were some erroneous information about these journals in the aforementioned study. The "Findings and Discussion" part of this study was rewritten after the corrections. The new analyses and corrections do not change the basic findings of the study, as well as its results. The authors of the study apologize to all the stakeholders regarding the previous version of the study because of their using of the Clarivate Analytics data, which led to the impression that some journals were not included in the Web of Science, although they are in fact still being indexed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most important actors in the scholarly communication process is scientific journals. Scientific journals are the most important environment, where research findings are presented, and thanks to these environments, it is possible to share scientific information all over the world. However, thousands of scientific journals are published and there are many question marks about the quality of these journals for the last couple of decades. Many countries develop journal classifications with various levels to overcome the quality problem. These lists are used for academic incentives and promotions, as well as to guide the researchers on journals where they can publish. In Turkey, one of the most important journal lists is provided by TÜBİTAK Incentive Program for International Scientific Publications (UBYT). The main objective of the program is to increase the number of high-quality publications authored by Turkey addressed scholars and to increase the visibility of the publications. The journals are grouped into four basic levels in the UBYT program, and the authors are awarded by the program in terms of the levels of the journals. The main aim of this study is to reveal whether the UBYT journal list considers regional and disciplinary differences. To achieve this aim, statistics and bibliometric data on the journals included in the 2018 and 2019 UBYT journal lists are obtained. The countries of origins of the journals and the subject areas are taken into consideration for the analyses. According to the results, most of the Turkey-addressed publications are published in low-level journals. With the change of the calculation method, significant changes are determined in the positions of the journals in 2018 and 2019 journal lists. In addition, it is concluded that not all disciplines are represented equally in the Program's levels. It is discovered that almost all the top-tier journals are the journals of North America and Europe. All Turkey-addressed journals are classified into the low-level journals. The results of the research provide findings that may help TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM to improve the processes in the existing UBYT system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Relevance ranking algorithms rank retrieved documents based on the degrees of topical similarity (relevance) between search queries and documents. This paper aims to introduce a new relevance ranking method combining a probabilistic topic modeling algorithm with citation data. Data and Method: We applied this method to the iSearch corpus of c. 435,000 physics papers. We first ran the topic modeling algorithm on titles and summaries of all papers for 65 search queries and obtained the relevance ranking lists. We then used citation data with the existing relevance rankings, thereby incrementally refining the results. The outcome produced better relevance rankings with papers covering various aspects of the topic searched as well as the more marginal ones. Finally, we evaluated the retrieval performance of the proposed method. Findings: Findings suggest that the topic modeling algorithm might sometimes overlook the terms used in different contexts in the papers. However, the fusion of citation data to relevance ranking lists provides additional contextual information, thereby enriching the results further with various papers of higher relevance. Moreover, results can easily be re-ranked. Implications: We argue that once it is tested on dynamic corpora for computational load, robustness, replicability, and scalability, the proposed method can, in time, be used in both local and international information systems such as TR-Dizin, Web of Science, and Scopus. Originality: The proposed method is, as far as we know, the first one that shows that relevance rankings produced with a topic modeling algorithm can be incrementally refined using citation data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is written to commemorate my distinguished friend and colleague Sezen Tan who died in 26 th of August 2021. It emphasizes on her specific personal characteristics, in addition to her professional life in Hacettepe University Library, at first as a librarian and later as a library manager; it also emphasizes on her experience and accumulation in librarianship; her relationships with Hacettepe University Library staff and other professional librarians and non-professional library staff who work outside Hacettepe University Library. The paper concludes with her impact on myself and my feelings as a valuable colleague and as a close friend. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The research-practice gap emphasizes the low participation rate of practitioners in research processes and the lack of collaboration between researchers and practitioners. This paper aims to determine the practitioner contribution to research, researcher-practitioner collaboration and, depending on these, whether there is a research-practice gap through two important Library and Information Science (LIS) journals in Turkey. Method: The data of the study were collected from peer-reviewed articles published in Turkish Librarianship and Information World journals. According to the article's author information, author profiles were created and categorized based on their profiles. These categories, which were determined as researchers, practitioners, students, and others, were analyzed and evaluated in the context of article authorship of practitioners and collaboration between researchers and practitioners. The research data of this study is open to access. Findings: Approximately 16% of the articles were published with the contribution of at least one practitioner. Approximately 10% of the total number of authors (845) were practitioners. The principal author groups of both journals are researchers in academic departments. Academic librarians were practitioners who published the most significant number of articles (10.53%). The contributions of practitioners working in libraries other than academic libraries to the literature were limited (2.98%). While the percentage of articles in which all researchers and practitioners collaborated was 9.74%, the percentage of articles in which LIS researchers and practitioners collaborated was 8.34%. The result of this study shows that KB researchers collaborated with academic librarians working at their universities in six publications (1.19%). In addition, it was found that practitioners collaborated in three (0.6%) publications and with researchers from different scientific fields in 10 publications (1.98%). Implications: The findings of this study show that there is a gap between research and practice in Turkey in terms of article authorship and collaboration. It is expected that this study, which deals with the subject based on evidence, to raise awareness about the participation of practitioners in research processes and the development of research collaborations. In addition, it is expected that the findings of this study will be extended by studies with different methods and scopes. Originality: In Turkey, there is a deficiency of current studies that directly address practitioner contribution and researcher-practitioner collaboration in publications based on evidence. This research aims to determine the existence of the gap between research and practice and fill the literature gap in our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The study aims to determine the compatibility of the books with the principles of children's literature by examining the physical, internal structure, and illustration characteristics of the children's poetry books most borrowed from the Nilüfer Municipality Poetry Library and Misi Children's Library. Method: 98 books evaluated within the scope of the research with sampling were borrowed from the Children's Library and Poetry Library. A case study, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the current work that collects the data through document analysis. Results: According to the findings obtained from the study, 95.9% of the books are medium size, 61.2% are stitched binding, 95.9% are straw paper, and 40.8% have 71 or more pages. When examining the page layout and grammar features, 42.9% of the books were written with single line spacing, 56.1% were written with 12 font size, 91.8% were left-justified, and punctuation marks were used in 55.1%. Regarding the illustrations placed in the books, 88.8% of the cover art is compatible with the content, 73.5% includes emotional expressions in the pictures, 44.9% has colored pictures, 74.5% keeps no pictures on each page, and 60.2%, places pictures and texts on the same page in a way complement each other. Considering the internal structure of the books, 34.7% tackle the theme of 'values' and 64.3% adopt a pastoral style. Conclusion: It has been found that the majority of children's poetry books borrowed from Nilüfer Municipality Poetry Library and Misi Children's Library have author promotion. The most borrowed children's poetry book belongs to Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, and secondly to Mavisel Yener and Aytül Akal. Most of the books have illustrators and Mustafa Delioğlu is the the one who mostly took part in the illustrating process. The publisher that published the most children's poetry books was Yapı Kredi, followed by Can Child. It has been determined that the publication years of children's poetry books are primarily those of 2012 and 2008 and that the majority of the books are first editions. There is no age information in the majority of children's poetry books. Originality: Some studies examine the physical and content elements of children's books. However, studies on poetry books have not been much in the literature. The study is unique in examining the physical and content features of children's poetry books. It is thought that the study will draw attention to children's poetry books and their place in library collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to determine the problems of web citation accessibility in the Turkish Librarianship journal. Method: For this purpose, bibliographic records of the peer-reviewed studies published in the Turkish Librarianship journal between the years 2005 and 2020 were downloaded from the DergiPark archive and web citations were obtained according to the selected publication types. Then, usage rate of web citations, their access levels, the half-life of URLs, and accessibility of top-level domain names were identified and analyzed. Findings: It has been observed that web citations are frequently used in peer-reviewed articles in the Turkish Librarianship journal, and it has been understood that the usage trend has been increasing continuously in recent years. The average half-life of web citations in data is three years. In addition, the accessibility rate of web citations used in recent articles is higher than earlier ones. Implications: The findings indicate that there have been persistent decay and accessibility issues in the web citations of the Turkish Librarianship journal, and support policies encouraging the use of persistent identifiers should be developed to increase the accessibility of web citations. Originality: This is the first study in the Turkish academic literature to investigate the status of web citations of articles based in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is written to commemorate Prof. Berin. U. Yurdadoğ on the first anniversary of her death. It emphasizes her specific personal characteristics, in addition to her vast knowledge, accumulation, and experience both in librarianship, information and records management, and in other areas which had been attracted her attention. The paper concludes with a memory that belongs to the days just before her death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The bibliophile culture is the Ottoman Empire is usually associated with the names such as Ali Emîrî Efendi as an iconic figure in The Second Constitution Period. Yet, the attributions such a Mecânîn-i Kütüp [Those who are madly in love with the books] or, "Muhibbân-ı Kütüp" [Book Lovers], can be used to describe a great many cultural activists that are generally unknown in academic circles. In modern literature, the figures who can be explained by the term's bibliophile and biblioman has been recognized and appreciated moderately for the role they have played in the prospering of book and library culture. The ones whose intimate relationship with the books have led to their financial ruins and eternal appreciation from history. Only a handful of such figures have got the opportunity to be revived from the annals of history due to recent scholarships. Many of these respectable figures have enriched their libraries and private book collections with extraordinary zest and determination, acquiring vast linguistic knowledge and undertaking extensive voyages in the old world. Thus, they earned the right to be called bibliophile. Most of these scholars, their heroic endeavors, and precious collections have joined the annals of history, except for a handful of few. This current paper is an attempt to revive and recognize one of the greatest bibliophiles of the period, S. M. Tawfiq whose contribution to Ottoman publication in Sebîlürreşâd journal as a travel writer had earned him fame in publication circles, yet, his other contribution to book culture, namely his book collection, has received insufficient attention so far. This current paper is an attempt to pay the due tribute to the man whose expertise on books, along with his insatiable love of knowledge, his journalism, and his outstanding book collection had contributed immensely to the prospering of book culture in The Second Constitution Period. This paper hopes to provide S. M. Tawfiq with the recognition that he certainly deserved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Graduate theses and dissertations are one of the most important research outputs of universities. Yet, it is often difficult to find and provide access to them. Although it is now possible to get access to full-texts of theses and dissertations through the Internet, access problems still persist. In this paper, we investigate the issues of open access to graduate theses and dissertations in Turkey. We first reviewed the collection of the Higher Education Council Theses Center to find out what percentage of theses is accessible full-text. We then, through a questionnaire survey, collected the views of the authors of theses who opted to restrict access to their theses temporarily. Access to about one third of theses is restricted. As it was difficult to reach the authors of older theses and get their consent to make their theses available online, most of the restricted theses belong to pre-2006 period. An overwhelming majority (94%) of the authors restricted access to their theses because they wanted to publish papers based on their theses while two thirds (63%) did so because they feared of their theses being plagiarized. Yet, 81% of them said they support open access to theses and dissertations in general. Findings suggest that the issue of open access to theses needs to be dealt with from a broader perspective. We discuss the various access issues on the basis of our findings and offer some suggestions to solve them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shares the program and content of the 49th IASL 2021 Annual Conference that organized in the field of school librarianship. This report summarizes some of the presentations that I attended and watched within my scope of interest, because of intensive program content. Due to pandemic, conference broadcasted virtually from Denton, Texas. So the original conference program time schedule is different from Turkey regional time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the technology age, life has started to flow much faster. While trying to keep pace with this rapid flow, sometimes you can become very bored with the necessary jobs, tasks, etc. in the fields of everyday life. This leads to poor performance. The best way to find a solution to this problem is gamification. Gamification not only helps you to perform a tasks but also increase the performance to the highest level. Gamification, which can be used in every field, has also started to be applied in the field of librarianship recently. By making the operations in libraries enjoyable, the performance of libraries is greatly improved by gamification. In this paper it is researched and explained that the meaning of gamification, its used period, its feature and applications of gamification in libraries. We added some application examples in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Game theory is a model that emerged in the field of mathematics and has become a popular subject of today, finding a place in many disciplines from economics to computer science. The model, which has competition, conflict, cooperation and decision-making elements, is called game theory, depending on the interaction of more than one decision-maker, and individual decisions are not included in the scope of game theory. In this paper, explanations about game theory are given in general and interlibrary competition, cooperation and decision-making processes of library administrations are evaluated in terms of game theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

TÜBİTAK has introduced the Incentive Program for International Scientific Publications (UBYT) in 1993 in order to increase the quantity, quality and impact of TR-addressed publications indexed in Web of Science (WoS) and support their authors. Some changes take place from time to time in the algorithms used in the program to identify publications to be supported and to calculate the amounts of monetary support to be paid. The new support algorithm introduced in 2019 aims to improve the shortcomings of the previous one. This paper is a comparative investigation of the impact of the new algorithm on supported journals, publications and the amounts of payments. For this, we first compare the functioning of the old and new support algorithms. We then analyze the impact of the new algorithm on the Program's supported journals lists as well as on the publications having article influence scores (AIS) that were supported in 2015 according to the old algorithm. Findings show that ongoing problems such as providing relatively more support to low impact publications and paying different amounts to publications in different fields do not seem to have completely been solved with the new algorithm. We discuss the major issues with performance-based research funding systems that solely use bibliometric measures to determine the impact of publications and offer some suggestions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the important indicators of the level of scientific and technological development of a country is the number and quality of publications produced therein. Such publications listed in international citation indexes tend to function as a leverage to streamline the scientific, human and economic development. Citations to these publications show the contribution of that country to the science in general, too. This paper investigates some of the bibliometric characteristics (impact factors, article influence scores, quartile and percentile values, and h indices) of journals that are published in Turkey and indexed in the Web of Science citation databases. Based on journal impact factors (and the other measures based thereon), a comparative review of the progress between 2006 and 2015 and the impact of Thomson Reuters' regional expansion policy on journals has been carried out. Findings show that the impact factors of journals, although relatively improved, have not increased as much as is desired during this period. The impact of papers published in these journals is well below that of the world average of all journals in their respective subjects. Findings are discussed in relation to Thomson Reuters' regional expansion policy and their implications are interpreted in the context of academic promotion and research assessment policies currently in effect in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The reason I started this paper with the intention of writing my impressions, experiences and memoirs about how I became acquainted with library in mid-1950's and librarianship in late 1950's, was my wish to explain what library and librarianship meant to me in my childhood and teenage years. Then I wanted to give an idea about the bases of my undergraduate education in Ankara University, Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Department of Librarianship where I attended between 1962- 1966 and wished to touch upon some of my memories during this period. This paper contains some professional and personal memories about my working life in Hacettepe University Libraries (Ankara) which lasted 26 years between 1966-1992 and my library practices supported by education during this period. I worked in Medical Books Cataloging Department of Hacettepe University Library between 1966-1975 and when the university divided into two basic parts as Hacettepe Medical Center and Beytepe Campus (the main central university), I worked in Reference Department of the Medical Center Library between 1975-1985. The information about how the basic jobs, tasks and processes were applied and by whom they were applied in these departments takes place in this paper with emphasis on my own professional practices, while talking about the practices in regard to each job or task stage I added some of my opinions and memories about each. Then I included some of my experiences in the university's Beytepe Campus Library where I worked as a manager between 1985-1992. The paper contains memories about some events and circumstances that affected me during my management experience. I spent over a quarter century (1966-1992) in Hacettepe University Libraries. My own professional experience might give an idea about the work environment and conditions in university libraries in Turkey during the mentioned period. I aimed to illuminate the whole picture for certain period of time through presenting a personal professional profile or section. Actually, I made an effort to reflect the positive effects of further professional knowledge, which is gained through postgraduate library science education and several continuous professional education activities; these educational activities had a positive impact on my own library practices. I aimed to indicate that accompanying educational activities certainly feed and support the professional practices. The present paper tries to express the importance of such companionship through some memories. While writing about our past library experiences I may not have been very successful in remembering many practices. Therefore, my past bosses, colleagues or instructors can correct my mistakes or errors if any and enlighten us when they write their own professional experiences and memories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Everything created by human beings and has hitherto survived can be defined as the cultural record. It consists of scientific, artistic, archeological, and technological works that contain explicit and implicit information. Memory institutions such as libraries, archives, and museums preserve the cultural record and transfer it from generation to generation. This paper presents the major problems faced by the memory institutions in preserving the digital cultural record along with their responsibilities concerning the classified, temporarily inaccessible records as well as records that contain false or fake content. Emphasizing the fact that the future of the past will also be preserved in digital format, it discusses major challenges of long-term and persistent preservation of the digital cultural record. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper is written in tribute to Prof. Dr. Necmeddin Sefercioğlu, who passed away recently. It aims to reveal the master’s personality as an invaluable instructor while sharing impressions on the author’s experience during his university training through his exchanges with the professor and the latter’s influence on the young students’ future professional career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, it will be chronologically described how Resource Description and Access (RDA) format which takes the place of the Anglo American Cataloging Rules 2 (AACR2) has been applied in Bilgi University Libraries. In addition, the changes in the original cataloging format of the books & resources of Istanbul Bilgi University Publishing and the current applications will be illustrated with examples. Cataloging with RDA format ensures the continuity of library standards and more qualified and detailed cataloging which have been made based on the AACR2. By cataloging of different types of sources, it will be possible for catalog librarians to access more accurate and detailed resources much faster by consolidating their knowledge and experience on RDA. Thus; both professional development and access to information and documents will continue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

University of Edinburgh, organized a program themed "Library Knowledge Exchange Week" with the aim of sharing the knowledge of archivists and librarians who came from different areas of Europe. The author of this paper attended the program on behalf of Istanbul University. We hope that the impressions and discussions shared in this paper regarding the program will raise and create awarrenss in our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to give some information about the 82nd IFLA General Conference and Assembly, which was held in Columbus, Ohio on August 13-19 2016 and to briefly evaluate the Conference. The paper also presents some general information about IFLA along with the above-mentioned activity. More than 3000 people from 137 countries were participated to 82nd IFLA Conference, which was held in 2016. Although there had been an intensive working program, many social events also took place during the Conference. In the closing ceremony the IFLA Conference in 2018 was announced to be held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). Next year's IFLA Conference will be held in Wroclaw, Poland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on processes in the "acquisitions" field within the library/information center of a university. Besides, we examine in details that how the experiences gained in the "collection development" process, as we call within the Sabancı University Information Center, have been changed and developed throughout years. Thus, we are expecting that the aforementioned experiences serve as a model for the other institutions, which interest benefiting from them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to briefly evaluate and to give some information about the 15th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2015), which was held in Boğaziçi University on June 29 - July 4, 2015. ISSI 2015 hosted more than 300 participants and it is pleasing that large number of audiences have shown interest in the Conference. 54% of the full papers and research in progress papers and 66% of the posters and ignite talks were accepted to be presented in the Conference. When the countries of the researchers that were contributed to the Conference were examined, it was realized that people from Republic of China, The United States of America, Canada, Spain and The Netherlands were in the top of the list in terms of the number of contributions. Selected papers will be published in Scientometrics which is an ISSI 2015 special issue. The next International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference will be held in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, in 2017. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A fundamental means of scientific communication are the peer reviewed articles published mainly in scientific journals and their abstracts. The abstract is a critical indicator of scientificity of an academic article, and a strategic tool enabling the decision of what to and whether to read the full text of an article or not. A qualitative abstract has to contain some basic information. It has been observed that abstracts of two major journals -Turkish Librarianship (TL) and Information World (IW)- which contribute to the improvement of Library and Information Science literature in Turkey do not meet the abstract requirements. This study, aims to determine the tendency and attitudes regarding the abstract writing in these two journals. The study has been limited to analysis of Turkish abstracts of 162 peer reviewed articles (TL 80 and IW 82 articles) published in the 2009-2013 time period in the context of major abstract elements, language and expression, and number of word and sentences used. Data gathered was analysed and comparatively evaluated by means of Excel. It is seen that a significant number of papers in both journals are deficient in clearly stating the hypothesis (TL %68; IW %95), method (TL %54; IW %68), while behaving more rigorously in language and expression used (TL %99; IW %83), determining of scope (TL %99; IW %87) and aim (TL %91; IW %88) of the study. Results show that abstracts in TL are generally more rigorously prepared than those in IW and they prove the hypothesis which stated that papers in both journals time to time do not take into consideration the scientific and professional criteria of abstract writing. As a conclusion, the need to update and strengthen the editorial policies of the journals, increase of academic writing and scientificity awareness in both writers/ researchers and peer reviewers has been stressed and some suggestions where offered in this context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper is written in tribute to Prof. Dr. Berin U. Yurdadoğ, who passed away recently. It aims to reveal the master's personality as an invaluable instructor while sharing impressions on the author's experience during his university training through his exchanges with the professor and the latter's influence on the young students' future professional career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Facebook offers the ability to its users to create a group on a specific subject or interest and ask friends and acquaintances to join and share information, which is entirely driven by them. The purpose of the study was to explore and understand school librarians' participation in social network particularly Facebook group; to what extent Facebook group becomes a catalyst for advancing their professional knowledge, and whether and how Facebook group adds value to the complex process of school librarians' professional development. The successive objectives were to understand the current and future professional learning trends in school librarianship analyzing Facebook group posts. An online questionnaire was posted to selected Facebook groups and sent to two (2) school librarians' listservs, and 404 usable responses were received. Study findings indicate that with the Facebook group, School Library Professionals (SLPs) are able to stay informed with new knowledge in their field by exchanging information, opportunities and ideas. The findings also confirm that more and more SLPs are using, or at the very least, experiencing Facebook groups as an informal Professional Development Tool (PDT). Study data shows that 78.4 percent of SLPs desire to see posts related to 'teaching resources' and 63.8 percent 'how to use technology' on Facebook group which indicate the current professional learning trends of SLPs. Research skills tips (67.9%), makerspace ideas (57%) and how to collaborate with classroom teachers (51.6%) are also found to be the top future professional learning aspirations of SLPs. This paper provides valid empirical evidence and highlights that many SLPs are using Facebook groups and 38.4 percent regarded it as a 'very useful tool' for professional development. The discussions that take place on Facebook groups empower and enhance librarians' professional practice and networking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The political climate in Turkey is built upon production-oriented discourse that will have an impact on all the elements that constitute the social whole. Although the discourse has a high impact on public in the political atmosphere, the process of conversion into action is still directly proportional to the performances of the interlocutors. In this context, there is a lot of work to do by the interlocutors. This article has been written to express the ideas on formulas and studies that will allow libraries in Turkey to place themselves in the production and ecosystem with their own dynamics at the national and international platforms. In this paper, in order to be able done studies on Librarianship in Turkey focused on production "production" to set up "National Library Laboratory" is proposed. It is expected and hoped that this proposal will be thoroughly discussed, matured and portrayed by all the professional components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on how a university library / information center should use social media tools. The importance of sharing in social media with users has been expressed in the example of Sabancı University Information Center. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Turkish Academic Network and Information Center conducts a series of activities to promote and develop national academic publishing. In addition to its routine activities, it also tries to make the information about this subject more accessible through meetings that bring together relevant stakeholders. The last of these meetings has been a symposium in Antalya on 2-3 November 2017. In this paper, brief information about the symposium is given and the topics discussed at the symposium are briefly evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this work is to understand the personal experiences of Department of Information and Records Management (IRM) students engaged in information search processes, to determine whether there are misconceptions about the processes, and if so to find out which misconceptions exist. The research is based on the model of Kuhlthau's six-staged Information Search Process (BAS). The data were obtained using a semi-structured interview technique with 13 Ankara University IRM students using purposeful sampling. The data were analysed using the content analysis method. It was determined that the students had misconceptions related to the BAS's stages of "topic selection", "information collection", "search closure", alongside "determination of research methods" and "research paper" which were classified into the "others" category. This evidence indicates that misconceptions can prevent students from performing effectively and efficiently in their information search processes. The results of this research should make an important contribution to library staff, trainers and information retrieval system designers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to explain the adoption of mobile application ICReserve (Information Center Reserve) to improve the library services in terms of user satisfaction and management processes with an innovative approach. ICReserve is a kind of reservation software developed specifically for the needs of University's Information Center by the Istanbul Aydin University IT Department and is integrated to the institution's other information systems. This article contains technical information about mobile application development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Undoubtedly the most basic element is information in the development of civilization. In this context it is obvious the importance of the book as a information source. The book showed different levels of development early ages up to this day. The emergence and development of the book shaped various cultural, political, economic, and geographic factors. Today, the book been in existence in both print and electronic formats and continues to be the main information source. To know the history of the book will shed light on future assessments. In this context, the aim of this study to present an overview the formation and development of the printed book in the historical process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

European Conference on Information Literacy was initiated by Hacettepe University Department of Information Management and Department of Information and Communication Sciences of Zagreb University in 2013. Annually organized in different countries by European partners, it took place in Prague/Czech Republic and was hosted by the Association of Libraries of Czech Universities from 10-13 October 2016. This paper shares impressions about the conference and summarizes briefly some of the topics discussed in the conference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to share the period of Erasmus Staff Mobility Training which I attended in 16-22 July 2012 in England, Exeter University, and to share the writing process of a case study that have been published in an international book for library professionals through personal connections that has been gained during the Erasmus Staff Training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While using of information technology in the institutional work processes provides speed and convenience to information and document production, it has brought with it a number of problems. One of these problems is making mistakes while filing electronic records. Electronic records are filed according to subjects or cases in a body in accordance with a function and within an organic bond. However, misapplications in a lot of application softwares of electronic records management were revealed during field work. Although file plans are identified as a system criterion in various guidelines and standards, they generally cannot be reflected to the applications. Not being able to open a case file, not being able to manage it according to the disposal schedul and transfer it to the archieve in a file integrity even if the case file is opened are the main challenges. During the field works, it is noticed that the filing was not managed in a separate module in many application softwares. This negative situation causes difficulties in bringing related documents together. In this paper, a model that can be a solution to the problems of electronic records filing is proposed. The model is designed as a subsystem within the electronic records management system. This method, tested in a local governing body, may also function as a guidance for other organizations that have difficulties in filing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to focus on the contribution information resources and libraries as elements bringing in added value to information and/or knowledge production and to analyze the tripartite relationship among such concepts as 'added 'value', 'elements that create value' and 'value/performance measurement'. In this context, the author introduces a new 'conceptual model' which is based on an original methodology that may be called 'documentary evidence' in order to measure the value created by information resources and libraries in the literature world which is the output of knowledge production. The model in endowed with a methodology that is capable of reaching answers to a range of questions including the following: the level of international and national scale accessibility to and retrieval of publications that contribute to the knowledge production process; information resources that scientists prefer most in producing knowledge (i.e. printed/electronic media); distribution of most preferred materials in terms of language, authors and publishers as well as age and types of materials; and availability of preferred information resources in the libraries of universities they are presently working at. In this respect, the paper introduces a new paradigm and 'model' to the existing literature. The methodology that characterizes the model is a 'composite' one that synthesizes methods and/or techniques such as 'citation analysis', 'bibliometry', 'performance measurement' and 'bibliographic search' which already exist in the relevant literature at both theoretical and practical levels. The purpose of the present article is to address and introduce the 'conceptual model' at a theoretical level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The patients, the elderly and disabled people (with physical and/or psychological limits because of their ages or disabilities) constitute a substantial part of society. Library and library services are known to play therapeutic roles in their lives. Therefore, either as a branch of a public library or independently, the libraries should endeavour to develop services for their needs, taking into account the special conditions and circumstances of the patients, the elderly and the disabled. The latest version of these guidelines was published and compiled by a working group lead by Nancy Mary Panella in 2000 and it aimed to identify the essential features of such services and to provide suggestions tailored to local needs and circumstances. This paper is the translation of the aforementioned guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scopus uses some criteria to decide which journals to index in the database. This paper evaluates the journals indexed in Scopus database according to these criteria. The study universe consisted of 2013 Scopus journal list downloaded from SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) web page on September 18th, 2014. Countries that have more than 1000 journals and less than 100 journals in Scopus were left out of the study. The 203 journals were selected from 6,151 journals by the systematic sampling method and of these, 203 journals were analyzed with regard to the Scopus journal selection criteria. Based on the analysis of findings, we found that the most problematic criteria were having an online referee list, having publication ethics, citation levels of journals and internationalization. On the other side, regular publishing, having English journal website, having English titles and abstracts and having references in Roman Script were the most successful criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyse freedom of thought from atheist and theist perspectives. In this context, the hypothesis of the study is as follows; Human being is free to express and spread their opinions due to their creations. We firstly examined the myth of Prometheus stealing fire from the god Zeus, and the story of the first woman, Pandora, in ancient Greek religion in order to test our hypothesis in this study. Secondly, we examined the issue of the creation of Adam described in the Qur'an and the Torah. Thirdly, we discussed the will of the human being in the light of the relevant verses. Afterwards, we discussed the movements shaping human being such as naturalism, materialism, socialism, capitalism, historizm and biologism. Finally, we discussed several examples on freedom of thought experienced by librarians. This study has demonstrated that freedom of thought arises from the creation of human being, and human being must save themselves from the natural, economic, historical and biological conditions in order to maintain their free thoughts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In their education lives undergraduate students' one of the most encountered difficulty is to provide citations for their research projects and term papers. This difficulty drives students to two kinds of plagiarism: intentional or unintentional plagiarism. In this context, plagiarism is a no ethical scientific behaviour we encounter most frequently among undergraduate students. When plagiarism is investigated in national and international literature, which is considered as an important problem regarding scientific communication and ethics principles, it is seen that research focused on intentional plagiarism. In this context the present study aimed to focus on university students' unintentional plagiarism, a nonethical academic behaviour, based on their misconceptions. Adding it is aimed to attract the attention of the researchers in librarianship and information sciences to the problem, increase their awareness and to encourage them to make in-depth research. Thus the present study includes issues of conceptions; learning concepts; misconceptions; plagiarism; misconceptions of university students regarding plagiarism and the reasoning; defining and preventing misconceptions; the roles of librarianships and teachers in correcting the misconceptions regarding plagiarism. Present study followed a comprehensive review utilizing descriptive approaches to reveal the situation. At the end of the study a short summary evaluating the situation depending on the literature analysed is also added. Adding ideas and suggestions in how to reveal probable misconceptions and how to prevent or decrease their formation are also presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prison library is one of the most important components of rehabilitation of incarcerated persons. This paper is the translation of the latest revision guidelines issued by IFLA, titled "Guidelines for Library Services to Prisoners" (by Vibeke Lehmann and Joanne Locke) These 2005 guidelines, developed to assist prison library management and staff in providing the prisoners with efficient and satisfying library and information service, are flexible to be adapted to local conditions and settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In digital age, knowledge is one of the significant dynamics of the globalization and change. In this paper, the distributed findings in literature concerning with knowledge were associated with research subject through summarizing and synthesizing; and also definition, epistemology, operational differences, structure and types of the knowledge were explored. Additionally, explanations were provided regarding the evolution of the knowledge from past to present and its interpretation on networks. Finally, selfcognition and meta-cognition concepts were discussed within this framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These Guidelines for implementing open access policies have been produced by the EC-funded project "Mediterranean Open Access Network" (www.medoanet.eu). They aim at coordinating policydevelopment in the six Mediterranean countries that participate in the project by providing concise and targeted guidelines for a harmonized approach towards policy development (France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey). They are directed to policy-makers and policy stakeholders specifically, to Research Performing Organizations and Research Funders. The guidelines take into consideration best practices and recent policy developments, in particular the European Commission's Recommendation and Communication on access to and preservation of and dissemination of scientific information (2012) and the planning for Horizon 2020. They are also informed by relevant documents, policy papers, recommendations and guidelines, produced recently by organizations such as UNESCO, The League of European Research Universities, the European University Association, Science Europe, among others, as well as by surveys performed in the six countries by the project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research (PASTEUR4OA) Project is introduced. The project aims to help develop national open access strategies and policies and to facilitate the coordination among European countries to develop aligned open access policies across the continent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, impressions from Digital Humanities 2016 held in Kraków, Poland in July 11-16, 2016 is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Working Group on Personal Rights which depends on the headquarters of Turkish Librarians Association is aimed to be introduced in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews skills of information pruduction and managemet effects on the process of export via true cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]