Hâfız-ı Kütübden Kütüphaneciye: Osmanlıdan Günümüze Bir Mesleğin Gelişimi

Abstract

Librarianship is one of the oldest professions that has developed with the emergence of libraries. Accordingly, librarians are an old professional group that has provided information services from ancient times to the present. This article examines the process of the historical development of librarianship as a profession and the changing roles of librarians (hâfız-ı kütüb) from the Ottoman Empire to the present. This historical process will be analyzed in three periods: the first period covers the time from the appearance of professional librarians to the declaration of Tanzimat, the second period is from the declaration of Tanzimat to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic and the third period is from the proclamation of the Turkish Republic to the present. It will be made evaluations about hafızı kütüp by examining the foundation deeds of the endowment libraries in the first period of Ottomans. The establishment regulations of the modern school libraries will be examined in the second period. It will be investigated whether there is any difference between the librarians employed in modern school libraries and those appointed through the foundation deeds. In the third period, the librarians appointed during the Republic era and the education of the librarianship will be examined.