Information Literacy-the Key to Lifelong Learning, June 14-16 Importance of Creating an Information Literate Society and Situation in Turkey Ayhan KAYGUSUZ

Information Literacy-the Key to Lifelong Learning, June 14-16

Importance of Creating an Importance of Creating an Information Literate Society Information Literate Society

and Situation in Turkeyand Situation in Turkey

Importance of Creating an Importance of Creating an Information Literate Society Information Literate Society

and Situation in Turkeyand Situation in Turkey

Ayhan KAYGUSUZAyhan KAYGUSUZAthensAthens

June 14, 2006June 14, 2006


“Nowhere is too far” with new information technology

We can watch the earth from the space.


Information Explosion

• The amount of information has been increasing tremondeously,– According to a researh*

– 5 exabyte (5 billion gigabyte) new information created each year between 1999-2002.

– This is equal to the book collection of Library of Congress.

– In other words 800 MB information is produced per person each year. (the world population is 6.5 billion)

– 24.000 refereed journals,

– 2.5 million articles are published in one year.

• *Lyman & Varian How Much Information? 2003


Media and Format of Information

• New information is produced mostly in elecronic format.

• 92 % of this information is stored on magnetic media.

Worldwide production of original information, if stored digitally, in terabytes - 2002

Storage Medium 2002 Terabytes Upper Estimate %

Paper 1,634 0,029

Film 420,254 7,5

Magnetic 5187130 92,47

Optical 103 0,0018

TOTAL 5,609,121 100,00

•*Lyman & Varian How Much Information? 2003


Information Technology

• Information technology is advancing too rapidly. Internet has been widely used all over the world. There were 10 billion documents on the surface web and 550 billion on the deep web behind the firewalls in 2004*.

• New stored information grew about 30% a year between 1999 and 2002**.

• *Tonta, Yasar. Electronic information management.• **Lyman & Varian How Much Information? 2003.


The Information Age

• The societies that produce and use information for problem solving are called “information societies”

• And this “time period” is called “information age”


The Information Age

• As a result of information explosion and developments in Information Technology the world is becoming a smaller place.

• This process is also defined as globalisation.• Globalisation is the rapid increase in cross-border

economic, social, technological exchange under conditions of capitalism.


Advantages of the Information Age• We use email or instant messaging, • carry credit cards,• use interactive banking,• have home cinema,• have e-resources accessible almost from

everywhere.• The information age has changed lifestyle of

information societies.


Now

The other side of the medal


Internet Users in the World

“The information age” has widened the gap between information societies and the others.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm


Internet Users in Africa


Internet Users in North America


Internet Users in South America


The Gap Between the Societies


Scholarly Journal Prices-2000-2004

Median journal prices – all subjects, 2000-04 £

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 % change 00-04 No incl.

• Sage 166 197 217 276 322 93.5% 296• Blackwell 227 251 275 318 362 59.1% 988 • Nature 395 415 492 572 622 57.3% 52 • Taylor & Francis 189 213 234 258 291 54.0% 809 • Springer 245 265 289 314 372 52.3% 447 • U. of Chicago 119 127 149 170 179 50.4% 44 • Kluwer 312 361 390 424 464 48.8% 1,073 • Lippincott 305 352 383 414 437 43.3% 235 • Johns Hopkins UP 91 97 105 112 127 39.5% 168 • Elsevier 575 612 643 739 781 36.0% 1,439 • OUP 143 150 160 176 194 35.8% 252 • Cambridge UP 98 106 118 125 124 26.5% 143

49,7% 5946

• Sonya White & Claire Creaser. Scholarly journal prices :Selected Trends and Comparisons. October 2004


Changes in Information World • Information explosion,• advances in Information Technology,• Changes in storage formats,

have made it easier but complicated to access to information.


Necessary Requirments

• Comparing to the conventional methods there are many barries to access to the information.

• One who wants to access to the information must have– Computer,

– internet access with a resonable bandwith,

– Subscription to the information behind the firewalls.


Necessary Requirments

• In addition to these one has to know how to find proper information he or she needs. In other words has to be “information literate”.


Information Literacy

• Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to "recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.

• http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.htm#ildef


Information Literacy

• Information literacy requires technology skills.

• Information technology skills enable an individual – to use computers,

– software applications,

– databases,

– and other technologies to achieve a wide variety of academic, work-related, and personal goals*.

*http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.htm#ildef


Situation in Turkey


Literacy in Turkey

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Adult Literacy Rate (%)

Total 78,4 79,9 82,0 85,0 84,4 85,2 85,1 85,3 85,9 86,3 86,4 86,3 87,5 88,3 87,4

Men 89,8 91,1 92,2 93,5 93,4 94,0 94,0 93,9 94,4 94,6 94,5 94,5 95,3 95,7 95,3

Woman 67,4 68,9 72,0 76,7 75,6 76,6 76,3 76,9 77,6 78,1 78,3 78,2 79,9 81,1 79,6


Schools, enrollments, teachers and classrooms, 2004-2005 education year

2004-2005 Pre-school Primary SchoolSecondary

SchoolVocational and

Technical SchoolTotal

# of Schools 15978 35611 2939 3877 58405

Teachers 22152 401288 93209 74405 591054

Enrollment 434771 10565389 1937055 1102394 14039609

Total 14630663


Computer and Internet Usage in Turkey-2005

17,65

13,93

5,77

4,33

11,889,60

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5,00

10,00

15,00

20,00

Total Women Men

Computer and Internet Usage by Sex %

Computer Usage

Internet Usage


Public Libraries

• # of Public Libraries:1432

• # of Books in Public Libraries:12.984.801

• # of User:20.871.850

• # of Loans:4.348.267

• # of staff:2529

• Turkish Statistics Organisation-2004


School Libraries• There are 42.427 schools at primary and secondary

levels.

• Most of the schools do not have functional libraries.

• Private sector has been involving in all level of education. These schools have better libraries comparing to the schools funded by the state .


Universities 2005-2006

There are 77 universities in Turkey. 53 of them are state universities, 24 are private universities. 15 new universities has been founded in 2006.The university libraries have access to major publishers’ publications.In 2005 more than 10 million articles downloaded by students andAcademics.

# of Academic staff 82250# of Vocational and technical student 270290# of Under graduate 733140# of Master 111814# of Doctorate 32503# of Medical interns 10431# of Total academic staff and students 1240428


Fulltext downloads-2005

Downloads-2005

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IL in Turkey

• User education goes back to 1970s in Turkey.• The consept of information literacy was introduced

in 1998. After this date several studies were carried out. Some of them are;

• Projects,• Seminars,• Workshops,• Reports,• Articles,• Master thesis and• Courses on IL.

Kurbanoğlu, Serap. An overview of information literacy studies in Turkey


IL in Turkey

• Information, information society, information explosion, literacy in technology, life long learning and skills for problem solving terms were mentioned in a report prepared by – Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association

TÜSİAD and – In the “Long–Term Strategy and Eight Five–Year

Development Plan 2001–2005”– prepared by State Planning Organization.

• MANPOWER• b) Objectives, Principles and Policies• 770. Starting from primary education, programs shall be developed

for the purpose of equipping teachers and students with technological literacy within education process.


IL in Turkey

• In the Special Ad Hoc Commitee Report on informatics and policies; – Level of information literacy rate,– Supporting IL education in all level of educational

institutions – Development of school and public libraries for

supporting IL and life long learning– Lack of national information policy were discussed in

2001.


IL in Turkey

• PULMAN-XT Project (2002)– A pilot project was carried out by EU and Turkish Librarians’

Association.– The aim of the project was to adapt PULMAN principals to

Turkish public libraries.– A national workshop was held,– DGM was translated into Turkish,– Training and exchange programs were done in this project.– One of the guidelines adopted in the national meeting is that

“public libraries should concentrate on life long learning programs.


IL in Turkey• The Ministry of Education has designed a course

on “information retrieval and research techniques” (2002-)– for secondary level

– 2 hours in a week

– Elective course

– Information retriaval, information resources, research techniques etc.


IL in Turkey

• There are some activities in public, school and university libraries on IL.

• Instruction and orientation programs,• Courses on information retrieval and

research techniques,• Promotional and educational materials, • web pages,• Presentations and seminars.


IL in Turkey

• There is growing effort on IL in Turkey.

• More and more librarians are becoming aware of IL.

• Unfortunately public libraries are not very active on IL.

• Private schools have better libraries and librarians take active role in education process.


IL in Turkey

• University libraries are the most active libraries on IL.

• Most of the university libraries have instruction programs or library orientation programs.

• Some of them have courses on IL.


National Conference on IL

• ILIPG (Innovative Library Initiatives Promotion Group) is trying to organize individual efforts and have a national conference in 2007 in Turkey.

• I believe this will be a big step towards creating a mutual understanding and cooperation on information literacy in the country.


Ayhan Kaygusuz

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Information Literacy-the Key to Lifelong Learning, June 14-16 Importance of Creating an Information Literate Society and Situation in Turkey Ayhan KAYGUSUZ