The ongoing development of digital culture and Web technologies has directly influenced and changed the standards, principles, rules, approaches and implementations about information organization and access. Today, the needs and trends are increasing in terms of enhancing visibility of information resources in libraries on web, integrating library data to the web, enabling different information systems to exchange data with each other, and revealing relationships / connections between data. In particular, semantic web and linked data applications provide libraries with significant opportunities to manage bibliographic records better and ensure better access to information. In this context, libraries are re-shaping services of bibliographic descrription and working hard in order to adapt to new developments. In this study, the concepts of semantic web and linked data will be explained and the effects of these concepts on libraries and the applications of linked data in libraries will be mentioned
