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Today, the development of information and communication technologies has changed the learning styles of students; educational practices based on transferring information as it is are out of date. The views on students’ being active participants in the learning-to-learn process have made learning strategies one of the important issues in the field of education. It has gained importance to provide students with the skills of accessing information, using information and learning to learn. Therefore, student-centered educational activities should be carried out within the framework of innovative approaches in line with student learning strategies. This research was conducted to determine the use of learning strategies by medical documentation and secretarial program students and to determine whether the learning strategies they use differ according to some variables (gender, age, etc.) According to the findings obtained in the study, while medical documentation and secretarial students use comprehension monitoring strategies and interpretation strategies intensively, they use organization strategies, repetition strategies, and effective strategies less frequently. It was determined that some of the learning strategies used by the students differed according to age group, gender, whether they chose the program they studied voluntarily. It has been determined that there is no significant difference between the learning strategies used by the students of the medical documentation and secretarial program and the variables of the type of high school they graduated from and grade level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Innovations and changes in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) affect almost every sector, accelerate the fields and increase the quality of products and services. Especially the constantly developing software and web technologies provide the emergence of innovative ideas and inventions and open new horizons. Artificial Intelligence (AI), one of the technologies that has developed since the middle of the 20th century and is the focal point in today's world, has a structure that can realize the dream of intelligent beings with thinking and reasoning functions, which human beings have dreamed of since the beginning of history. This technology, which is thought to bring about great transformations in almost every field, has the potential to fundamentally change libraries, which are information centers, in terms of both service understanding and institutional structure. In this study, AI implementations in the field of AI and libraries were examined based on the literature; the perceptions, awareness and expectations of university librarians about AI technology and implementations was tried to be determined. For this purpose, a questionnaire consisting of 18 questions was applied to all librarians (160 people) working in university libraries in Ankara, and the research data were obtained from 110 librarians who volunteered to participate in the study. These data were analyzed through SPSS program. In this study, where the descriptive method was used, it was found that the level of knowledge and skills of librarians about artificial intelligence technologies and applications was low; and it was determined that there are training needs to develop them. It is supposed that this study will provide opportunities by giving information about new technologies that can be used in libraries; raise awareness about AI and give ideas and contribute to librarians and administrators while planning the training to be held in libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information literacy skills are extremely important for students at universities to keep up with technological innovations and changes, manage the research process effectively and become lifelong learners in the future. Today, people are supposed to be information literate and in this context they are expected to be able to define their information needs, access and evaluate the information resources, construct the new information onto their present knowledge, use the information accordingly and ethically and transmit/present the information. There is a significant contribution of educational activities organized by libraries to equip students with these skills. In this study, it is aimed to determine information literacy skills of undergraduate students at Ankara University in the process of searching, accessing, assessing, using, transmitting/presenting information. The descriptive method has been used and the research has been performed on a sample consisting of 245 undergraduate students selected through stratified random sampling from the universe of 39.136 students. The results have been analyzed through PASW (Predictive Analytics SoftWare). The result of the study indicates that the students encounter difficulties in the subjects which require advanced and more detailed information, they have not received any training for information literacy skills yet and thus they require educational activities which will be organized in this regard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new cataloguing standard RDA, that replace Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2 (AACR2) has been designed to organize information resources and provide access to these resources. It aims to simplify the use and interpretation of cataloging rules, have an effective bibliographic control over all information environment, to form a hierarchical and logical relationship among information resources, integrate the library data to the data from different sources, and introduce a functional structure to access information resources. Towards these aims, RDA intends to rearrange bibliographic universe in a more effective way. In this study, the new approaches, structure, terminology, rules, applications and elements relation with RDA implementation have been explained based on literature. In addition, RDA studies and initiatives around the world and in Turkey have been addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The continuous development in information and communication technologies has directly affected the environment for acquisition of information and learning as well as reshaping the structure of this environment. Thus the resources, tools, applications and services applied in this environment have also changed and they have been digitally presented. These innovations have made individuals adapt to the new environments in the context of lifelong learning. In other words, it becomes necessary for people to be equipped with "information literacy skills" including "defining the information needs", "effective access to information", "assessment of information", "use of information" and "transmission and presentation of information" which are indispensable parts of information age. There are significant contributions of educational activities organized by libraries in providing individuals with these skills. In this study, it is aimed to determine library usage of the research assistants at Ankara University, their levels of information literacy skills in the scope of information and communication technologies and identify their educational expectations concerning these issues. This research has been done with 556 participants among 1028 research assistants who have been anticipated to be involved. The descriptive method and a survey as a data collection technique have been used. The results have been analyzed through PASW (Predictive Analytics SoftWare). The results show that the research assistants at Ankara University have difficulty in all stages of research process and they require educational activities on information literacy prepared by libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Developing web-technologies contribute to the formation of the next generation library catalogs by increasing functions of the online library catalogs, which has an important role in access to information resources. With their improved features, the next-generation library catalogs, keeping interaction, sharing, and participation in the forefront, creates a significant impact on users' access to information sources and using of these resources. In this study, the aim is to determine the way of user utilization of online library catalogs by means of their information seeking behavior and to indicate their needs/expectations about bringing social networking features to these catalogs. Within the scope of the study, where a descriptive method was used, structured interviews were conducted among 179 users in Ankara University and Hacettepe University. The results of the study shows that users first applied to search engines in their information search behavior. They preferred library catalogs at the third place They mostly want to see the information providing access to contents of resources in library catalogs, and pay special attention to the elements such as faceted structures and spelling algorithms for access. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, the relationship between the concepts of culture and cultural policies and the institution of library has been examined; the way of perception of the institution of library in Turkish national cultural policy is tried to be shown by investigating various laws, legistations, instructions, development plans, culture councils, the programs of government and political parties related to culture in Turkey after 1980. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]