Information technologies and interior space of library: Istanbul Technical University Mustafa İnan Library

As information and communication technologies are starting to become an inevitable part of daily life, our life habits are changing continuously. As one of the first realizers of the effect of this change upon the society, Mc Luhan, while uttering that the social change experienced by oral culture's giving its place to written culture in the history of civilization is nowadays experienced by the electronic culture. He mentions that the change at information and communication media he addresses as extension of the body is effecting the perception of the individual and, thus, transforming the individual and the society itself. While the behaviors of individuals and the society are changing rapidly as parallel to information technologies, this change is inevitably reflected at the living spaces. As these technologies keep going to become more prevalent in our life, many institutions and organizations are also changing to ensure the services they offer are suitable for the necessities of the users. The libraries where the date has been provided and kept, on the other side, are the structures that exposed to that change at most. At the present time, together with the developments in the information and communication technology the content of a whole library is stored within a single chip, or a single library can hold the digital content of all libraries. On the other side, existence of Wi-Fi, digital documents and the Internet is creating unprecedented improvements on the function, use, and operating of the libraries. Together with digitalization, mobility, and remote access possibilities, while spatial dependence of data carrier media tools are continuously decreasing , library spaces serving to provide and store data are to be structured to provide which purposes is an issue of concern. Therefore, in the content of thesis study, spatial reflection potentials of such a change converting the society and the individual, especially together with the information technologies, are examined through the libraries. In this context, the effect of information technologies upon the physical spaces, which is selected as the content of thesis study, and dissertations done especially in respect of their effects upon library spaces are examined in national and international level, and the conclusions are systematically evaluated. As a result of these evaluations, the content of thesis study, the problem to be handled in other saying, is determined as "analysis of library interior in the concept of developments in information technologies". In line with this content, digitalized life habits via information technologies and information access possibilities are dealt at the first stage of 3rd Part of thesis study as methodology, and at the second stage changing information usage habits together with the digitalized life habits are described. At the third stage, the reflection of the developments that are appeared together with digitalization, internet and web technologies upon the library service and models is discussed, and at the last stage the current approaches generated towards the library space together with the improvements in information technologies. At the 4th part of thesis study, Istanbul Technical University Mustafa Inan Library, which is one of the important university libraries of Turkey, is examined as case study, and the success of it to satisfy the user needs of the places within the present building is measured with a survey study prepared through literature study. The fundamental areas and concepts to be concerned on the process of designing a university library are being tried to be determined while the data belonging to the survey are systematically examined in the line with the knowledge gathered via the literature. Also, in this context, spatial problems are manifested via Istanbul Technical University Mustafa Inan Library, and a range of suggestions for the solution of these aforesaid problems is presented. At the last part of the thesis, the benefits that these suggestions will provide to the applications on library spaces of today and near future are discussed.