Kütüphane ve Arşivlerdeki Sessiz Tehlike: Yangın = The Silent Danger in Libraries and Archives: Fire

Fire is a disaster that gradually accelerates from the moment it breaks out, can engulf the building with a geometric increase, and can occur in any building. Libraries and archives can be exposed to fire disasters today, as in the past.. These important institutions, which are of great value with their buildings, collections, library staff and users, are not only cultural heritage that must be protected, but also public spaces. For this reason, the buildings in which these institutions will operate, must be designed and manufactured to have fire-resistant features. After the building- and people-oriented design and production, that means, during the usage phase, the library employees, who are the permanent users of the building, have the necessary fire awareness, will minimize the possibility of fire. In this study; Fire and fire outbreak risks were examined, and were discussed what needs to be done in the design and production stages in order to prevent any fire during the use of the library and archive buildings and the active and passive protective measures that should be taken. And also, in the event of a fire, some suggestions have been made about what should be done to minimize the damage

Kadın Kütüphanecilerin Kariyer Yolundaki Tehlike: Cam Tavan Sendromu = The Danger in the Career Path of Female Librarians: The Glass Ceiling Syndrome

Although there is no legal obstacle within the organization, the invisible barriers that prevent women from coming to senior management positions are called glass ceiling syndrome; in the literature. The main reason for choosing gender discrimination as the subject of this study is that this issue can be encountered at all levels of business life as well as for women working in libraries, information center, etc. and it puts them at a disadvantage. The starting point of this assumption has been that the students who preferred the Information and Records Management Departments, which provide undergraduate education in universities from the past to the present, were predominantly female students, then this weight continued in their professional life, but the situation was reversed in the management levels. Despite this, it is interesting to see that this important subject has not been explored in the librarianship literature until now. The aim of the study is to investigate whether the glass ceiling syndrome has an effect on the promotion of female information professionals to managerial positions. In this study, the data about the information professionals studying and working in this field were turned into statistical tables and an evaluation was made based on these results by considering the reasons for bringing men to the managerial positions in a female-dominated profession. As a result of the evaluation of the data, the assumption that the initial glass ceiling syndrome was an obstacle in the professional careers of female information professionals was also confirmed

University Library Buildings in Turkey: A Survey and a Case Study of Yildiz Technical University Main Library Building

Higher education in Turkey has an ancient heritage, beginning in the ‘medrese’ or ‘madrasah’, schools for young men attached to a mosque, which date back to the tenth century and earlier throughout the Islamic world. The first university in Turkey, now known as Istanbul Universitesi, grew out of the Istanbul Medrese, founded as early as 1453, which gradually established itself as a pre-eminent science and technology school throughout the nineteenth century, taking the name Istanbul Darulfunun (House of Multiple Sciences) in 1912, and Istanbul Universitesi in 1933. Its former Schools, based on the schools of the former Medrese, have become Faculties in the modern university. There are now more than ninety-seven universities and academies in Turkey, of which approximately two thirds are state owned, the others are funded by foundations, or are military or police academies. Yildiz Technical University, founded in 1911, is one of the largest and most prominent state universities in Istanbul, and one of two technical universities, the other being Istanbul Technical University (founded 1773). YTU offers programs within eight faculties (covering literature, languages, fine arts and design, engineering and architecture) across three campuses, and advanced research degrees in dedicated research institutes. Although not the oldest university in Istanbul, many of its buildings, especially on the historic Davutpasa campus, date from the first half of the twentieth century and are ill-equipped to provide for the needs of a modern university, let alone a modern university library

Interpretation of Information into Knowledge in Design Based Education: the Roles of Teachers, Students and Librarians

Architectural education is one of the design based education system. Its objective is to enable architectural students to develop their design skills while teaching them the basic principles and how to approach to a building design. The design studio which is the core process of the architectural education combines all relevant information derived from various disciplines and interprets them into knowledge. Then the students can create an architectural design of a building. Libraries are the essential information resources for the education system. The aim of this paper is to examine the role of the teachers, students and the librarians in the design based education in terms of obtaining, understanding and interpreting design related information into knowledge

Kütüphane Binası Kullanıcıları Arasındaki İletişimde Binanın Rolü

Buildings are designed, produced and used to meet the users’ needs. A building is surrounded an external environment, and it also surrounds an internal environment with its external shell. These external and internal environments have physical and social characteristics which are considered during the design, production and use of the building. Both the building and its users affect each other. While the building is physically affected by its users, the users can be affected in terms of their biological, psychological and social structure. The building can cause biological and psychological health problems, and also can affect the relationships between the people. The users of a library building can be grouped as permanent users (staff) and temporary users (readers) according to the use period of it. The consideration of physical and social environmental characteristics during the design, construction and use will contribute the existence of healthy library buildings. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationships between a library building and its users, and the effects of the library building on the relationships between staff and readers

Yapı Biyolojisi ve Üniversite Kütüphanesi Kullanıcısı

Construction is a kind of environment which is designed and produced within pysical and social context for covering the biological, psychologic, sociologic expectations of the users. The expectations of the users are covered according to the quality of pysical and social peculiarities of the construction which is sensitive to external environment. The constructions, which can not cover the expectations of the users, might cause biological and psychological problems and in the end those constructions might cause health problems. The health relationship between the construction and the user is a subject of “Building Biology”. The aim of the study, which concentrates on the evaluation of university libraries in regard to building biology, is to determine the following factors and to put forward necessary precautions : - physical, social internal and external environment qualities; - negative elements within this environment; - factors which detoriate the user’s health caused by those negative elements; - to put forward the necessary precautions

Dünden Bugüne Matbaanın Serüveni

The adventure of the printing press has been continuing since it was started by Gutenberg in 15th century. Although in earlier times its acceptance was different in both western countries and Ottoman Empire, the development of printing press was affected by the political, economical, cultural and religious structure of the societies. Therefore, the life of this invention which has been serving people for almost 550 years is like an adventure. In this paper, the historical development of the printing press in Europe, Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey will be examined by starting the period of movement from manuscripts to press techniques. Besides, it will be focused on the effects of this process on cultures and libraries of societies

Kütüphane ve Bilgi Merkezi Çalışanları Arasındaki Etik Dışı Davranışlara Bir Örnek: Psikolojik Taciz (Mobbing) = An Example of Unethical Behaviours Among The Library and Information Center Workers: Psychological Harassment (Mobbing)

Although the professional titles and ranks are different, everyone who is working in the field of information and documentation management has the responsibility of performing this profession in an ethical frame. This profession requires an academical education and specilisation as well as its service is required by certaing groups in society; and it has its own professional organisation and ethical rules. Anyone who choses this profession also carries the responsibilities of it. At the same he/she bears the honour of the profession that is different from any other pride and beyond of it. To systematically treat the people who work at lower rank in a manner that is hostile which can be accepted as psychological/moral harassment is againts the human rights and professional ethic; and it cannot be accepted whatever the reason. The starting point of the study is based on a hypothesis for which if anyone who is subject to a psychological/moral harassment is informed about the issue he/she can draw much easier a road map to find a solution to this unpleasant situation. The aims of this study are to determine the possible behaviours that will be described as psychological/moral harassment, and possible preventive actions againts them; and to inform the people who are working in the field of information and documentation management. In the research some of the moral harassment incidents in Turkey are taken as samples; those of incidents are examined according to the legal issues; and are compared with different overseas applications. As conclusion, the immediate actions against moral harassment; the legal rights of workers; responsibilities of employer; legal issues and human rights; and solutions are discussed

Üniversite Kütüphanelerinin Tasarımında Çevresel Etmenler

Each consturuction (building), in addition to its basic aim combined of preserving, isolating and auditing functions, holds the particular responsibility such as housing, service and production (house, hospital, factory, library etc.). Construction should be designed and produced both to provide physical comfort necessary for living and the users’ needs. The story of construction begins with necessity and lasts along with design, production and using periods. The positive performance of using period depends partially on construction program and largely on the reasonable evaluation of “knowledge obtaining” period, which is the first step of design period in overall “analysis” studies. The using performance of university libraries is determined according to the perfectionist knowledge obtaining study, which is based upon analysis. The content of this study is significant since it would reflect itself on insufficient knowledge, designing data and in the and on library performance

Kütüphane Binaları: Deprem ve Diğer Afetlere Hazırlık.

Disasters are the events which have negative effects on the life. They might be resulted from natural causes or people’s activities. İt is possible to prepare people for the disasters before their occurrence. The work which should be done before and after a disaster is examined in “Disaster Managernent System”. Libraries are used by number of the people. Therefore, they should provide safety requirements. This paper aims to take an attention to the importance of prepare the library buildings for the possible disasters and the responsibilities of the people who are involved in the life of the building during the design, construction and use stages. During the design stage of a library building topographic characteristics, structural system, materials, workmanship and several systems are considered in terms of safety. The construction of the building should be done in accordance with the design. During the use stage of the building the responsibilities of all users from staff to readers should be determined and distributed in written form. Thus, every library building should have a disaster management plan in advance. İn this paper, first the types of the disasters are briefly mentioned, then the actions before and after a disaster are examined in general, the characteristics of a disaster’ plan for a library building are identifled, and the necessary precautions to avoid the negative effects of the disaster are reconımended. Although the ali types of disasters are generaliy mentioned at the beginning of the paper, the subject is taken into consideration in terms of earthquake because of being risk in every region of Turkey. As a result, it is stated that the awareness of personal and institutional responsibilities and the application of the determined disaster plan are effective to increase the productivity of the library staffbecause of having a feeling that they work in a safe environnıent