This study was designed for learning the patterns of utilization of the children's sections of public libraries and understanding the functions and social elements that library users find in or bring to these sections. The study was designed as a qualitative case study for examining three public libraries (Erzincan, Essen & Niğde). Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with 72 children and 43 adults in 3 weeks of observation period. Findings for each of three libraries are given under the headings of quality of spaces for children, social climate, and overall picture of activities for children as the "within-case". As to the "across-case" are reached the themes; preschool children, a place like a bookstore, a place like a playground, and reading as a sub-skill for academic success. Considering the functions of libraries in years, it is necessary to involve experts, writers, teachers, and parents in the process as well.

This study sets out to examine how gender is represented in the articles examining the relationship between gender and the subject areas of Turkish Language education. These articles were examined in terms of the distribution of method, data source, and research problem; and whether they include gender issues, how they conclude the findings, and discuss. This study was designed as a qualitative research. 86 articles conducted in the field of Turkish language and included the gender issues in various ways were analyzed by using descriptive content analysis. The results revealed that the researches were generally conducted in quantitative methods, gender was regarded as a categorical variable, no connection was established between gender and other variables, and discussions on gender roles were not included within the results of this researches. It was concluded that the majority of this research contributed to the reproduction of traditional gender roles by dealing with the gender issue through the assigned gender identity as male/female and trigger the reproduction of these roles by repeating the existing findings.

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