Competencies and responsibilities of librarians in providing information literacy training in university libraries

To provide education for information literacy in the academic libraries requires essential facilities such as having enough space in the library and education equipment with related software setups. By having these features in the library will lead to serving considerably a large number of students. In addition to these resources, the libraries should have expert librarians to carry out information literacy processes and educate the students. The main hypothesis in this thesis stated as information literacy requires librarian to gain new skill related to education on literacy; therefore, Information Literacy departments in Turkey should provide elective lectures on pedagogy to their own students till these departments alumni can be legally regarded as lecturers. It has been observed that the essential skills for instruction librarian and the curriculum of Information Literacy departments in Turkey share considerable similarities. That is why Information Literacy departments in Turkey and their curriculum analyzed in detail. To validate our hypothesis, we perform content analysis and identification techniques. In asses this techniques, we prepared an information documents (e.g. questionnaires) and send them to Information Literacy department heads in Turkey. To provide a theoretical view on this subject, we provide an extensive literature review on information literacy In this thesis, it has been underlined that the need for instruction librarian who has lecturing experience on information literacy Technologies and processes is critical to improving the current level of Information Literacy departments in Turkey. Moreover, it is suggested that international standards on information literacy should be translated into Turkish in order to improve essential skills of librarian lecturer