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Article University Libraries Staff-User Relationship and the Conformity of the Current Situation To the Standard(Turkish Librarians Assoc, 2017) Kaya, HuseyinUniversity libraries are one of the most important units in universities that aim to provide the best service to their users. Because it is their libraries that guide to the universities where science is produced therefore, human resources in the university libraries have the same equal importance. In order to provide better service in the university libraries, one of the indispensible element is to have certified librarians who are expert on their topics. In this research, the evaluation of the relationship between the number of staff that the foundation & the public libraries has and the number of users they have and the number of staff with the librarianship degree have been made. In addition, number of users and staff standard in the work called "University Libraries in Turkey towards 2023, Current Situation, Problems, Standards and Solution Proposals" and suitability of the data to the standards that the resarcher has currently have been examined. A total of 74 university libraries, including 55 state and 19 foundation university libraries, participated in the work. The total number of staff and the number of staff with the librarianship degree are given in the data obtained. All the data obtained has been evaluated separately for public and foundation university libraries. As a result of the study, While the number of librarians in total staff in the state university libraries is 40.9 %, this figure is 56.9 % in the foundation university libraries. When compared to the standard prepared by YOK (Council of Higher Education) and the data of 74 university libraries, it is seen that university libraries are inadequate in terms of staff. In particular, there are no librarians in some foundation university libraries. Attention should be paid to personnel management in the university libraries to address this issue. In addition, the relevant state institutions and related associations should be informed.Article Citation - WoS: 2The Visibility of Scholarly Knowledge: Awareness for Open Access in Hacettepe University(Turkish Librarians Assoc, 2010) Erturk, Korhan Levent; Kucuk, Mehmet EminThe scholars begin to place their works into the open repositories or open access journals as well as their personal web sites. In the international arena, the open repositories contain a total of 14,000 Turkey-based scholarly contents. The focus of this study is to determine the level of awareness for open access concept of scholars in Hacettepe University. An electronic questionnaire was conducted to scholars. The data were collected through questionnaire from full time academic staff member in Hacettepe University. It was found that 50% of scholars are aware of the open access concept and 92% of the scholars are willing to place their works into the institutional repository of their university. According to questionnaire study result, different types of works such as articles and assertions can be placed in the institutional open repositories in Turkey and their functionality can be increased in a short time.Article Analysis of Turkey's Institutional Open Repositories: an Example of Dokuz Eylul University Institutional Open Repository(Turkish Librarians Assoc, 2012) Erturk, Korhan Levent; Sengul, GokhanAfter the declaration of the Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2001, institutional open repositories are known as the most important tool of the self archiving, which is also known as green road. There are 26 institutional repositories, which are all compatible to international standards. All the institutional open repositories of Turkey mentioned before are listed in international open archive directories. In this study institutional open repository of Dokuz Eylul University is examined and institutional open repositories of Turkey are discussed.
