Dose of Criticism

Reviews and critics articles add values to the literature in general when the ethical principles are followed. In addition to contributing to the development of academic publishing, it also contributes to reducing the error rate in scientific production processes. Criticism provides useful results when subjective assessment criteria are eliminated. It is important that every academics adheres unconditionally to this criterion which is necessary for the development of Turkish librarianship literature. In this letter, responses are given and criticized to biased criticisms in the review article published in the latest issue of Turkish Librarianship. The mentioned review was written by Erdin？ Alaca for the book namely 'Public Libraries: Tendencies and the New Roles from the Past to Future’ [TL 33 (1), 71-81]