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- Throughout history, libraries have been the sole agencies responsible for the transfer into the future and for the preservation of cultural legacies. For centuries, they have assumed the identity of "protector." Once the keeper of papyrus in the archives of a temple, today libraries, in the effective environment of the electronic medium, continue to perpetuate their intellectual identities as protective agencies. In every period of history, in every century, libraries have gone through change but have librarians taken their true place in this change? Has this professional group, who collectively take on the important mission of information transfer, actually identified with the "intellectuality" that the profession attributes to them? While the terms "information specialist," "documentation specialist," "information scientist," "information and documentation manager" have been embraced, has the term "librarian" really achieved the respectful status that it deserves? Today's librarians, who find themselves in a professional niche caught in the conflict between technological evolution and the Internet revolution, also find themselves carrying mixed emotions with respect to their image as librarians in today's world. In Turkey, library science has been a subject of university curriculums for more than a half-century. Hundreds of librarian candidates graduating from a four-year program of education who find themselves qualified in terms of professional knowledge and creativity look for jobs to practice their profession. New graduates are unable to find jobs or else find jobs in which they lose their identity as a librarian, meanwhile hesitating to express themselves and make this fact known. This poster attempts to review the professional changes and professional profiles of librarians over a historical period, studying "image" issues experienced by individual librarians and librarian groups in Turkey.
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- Journal Article (Print/Paginated)
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