1. WEB BASED LIBRARY SERVICES A CASE STUDY: CENTRAL BANK OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY LIBRARY NESRIN INCE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN Olympia London 18-20 March 2002

2. WEB BASED LIBRARY SERVICES:CENTRAL BANK OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY LIBRARY nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr CBRT Library-turkey

3. OVERVIEW WHO ARE WE? WHO NEEDS OUR SERVICES? WHAT ARE THE SERVICES? WHAT ARE WE PLANNING? EPHESUS ANTIC LIBRARY nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr - CBRT Library-turkey

4. The digital revolution has influenced libraries to varying degrees. One phase has been development of a digital library collection from electronic resources, parallel to the traditional collection another stage could see the digital collection becoming the core of the library collection. nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr - CBRT Library-turkey

5. a powerful new way to communicate and to gain access to information of all kinds Greater and easy access to a range of information increased speed in acquiring information to access universal information to collect and disseminate information for reference use INTERNET offers nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr - CBRT Library-turkey

6. To provide appropriate information to our users –both outside users and The Bank’s staff- according to the Central Bank goals. To give general reference services to our users. To give leisure reading services (such as magazines, fictions etc) I.LIBRARY OBJECTIVES nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr - CBRT Library-turkey

7. II. COLLECTION Specializes in economics and finance 10000 monographs includes discussion papers of various organizations and universities 250 subscribed journals online access to 130 periodicals through ProQuest online database and publishers own sites 800 periodicals from exchange CD ROM databases Online databases nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr - CBRT Library-turkey

8. 5 Librarian (1 reference librarian, 1 aqcusition librarian, 2 support librarian and 1 indexer 2 support level staff III.STAFF nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr - CBRT Library-turkey

9. Constantly active research team Other employees of the Bank External users (researchers from other organizations and academic environment) IV.USER CHARACTERISTICS nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr - CBRT Library-turkey

10. Http://www2.tcmb.gov.tr/kutuphane/ingilizce/mainpage.htm Our web site library has four function: Browsing function Searching function Dissemination function Reference function V.FUNCTIONS OF THE WEB SITE nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr - CBRT Library-turkey

11. Web based library services consists of seven principle elements: Library catalogue Online access to core journals Online access to databases (ABI inform Global, Econ-Lit, Bankers Almanac, Prime Ministry Publication and Law Database, and inhouse article database) E-information sources (classified links to statistical and informational web sites) E-mail alert and e-mail reference services VI.CHARACTERISTICS OF WEB SERVICES nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr - CBRT Library-turkey

12. Encyclopedias and dictionaries Economic discussion papers Economic organizations Statistical information resources Legal information resources Libraries Central Banks Other information resources VII.E-INFORMATION RESOURCES nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr - CBRT Library-turkey

13. available to all users both outside users and the Bank's staff based on traditional reference approach we suggest a research strategy or citations to publications we give a definition of a term or address or full text access to useful information VIII.  E-MAIL REFERENCE SERVICES nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr - CBRT Library-turkey

14. . available to top level managers and research staff. news alerts from daily economic and financial newspapers (financial times, the wall street journal, dunya gazettee / Turkish economic daily content alerts of new publications (both e-accessible and published journals) current awareness services for researchers according to their information profile IX.  E-MAIL ALERT SERVICES nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr - CBRT Library-turkey

15. To train our users To provide user profiles for selective awareness services to all Central Bank staff To receive interlibrary loan requests from our homepage. X. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS nesrin.ince@tcmb.gov.tr - CBRT Library-turkey

16. FINAL TARGET : Developing a portal for economics and finance