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Our world has been exposed to a great and rapid change in the social economic, cultural and political fields with the transition process to information society. These alteration and revolution process has affected all social structure and institutions. One of the institutions affected by this change wave is the public libraries. The public libraries are social institutions that present cultural, educational and information services to the individuals from every segments of the society without making any kind of discriminations. The social institutions are both affected by this change and affect this change. The public libraries have been both affected by and affected these change and revolution process in the information society. There have been radical changes in the user, technical and managerial services which are the main services of public libraries with the transition process to information society. In same process, the public libraries have had to redefine and reconstruct the main elements of public libraries such as the collection, user, staff, building and budget elements with a new perspective with the innovations that the information society and information technologies have brought. In this study, a survey, which include 81 public libraries in Turkey and 277 librarians and library managers in these libraries, and 28 regional public libraries in Bulgaria and 136 librarians and library managers in these libraries, have been carried out to find out the current situations of the public libraries in Turkey and Bulgaria and get the opinions of the librarians and library managers, which work in these libraries, about the role and place of the public libraries in the passing process to the information society. In the last part of the study, some results have been reached according to the data gained from the surveys and the suggestions have been made in accordance with the results gained.

Bilgi Toplumuna Geçiş Sürecinde Türkiye'de ve Bulgaristan'da Halk Kütüphaneleri: