Directorate of Library And Documentation
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kddb@gelisim.edu.tr
History
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Directorate of Library And Documentation
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History
Istanbul Gelisim Vocational School, which was established in accordance with Article 2 of Law No. 2547, was transformed into Istanbul Gelisim University by Law No. 6114 dated 17 February 2011 and has been operating in Avcılar, Istanbul since then. In 2008, the Library Directorate was established within the Vocational School and Alev Dülger started the library activities as the first Library Director.
In 2011, the Directorate of Library and Documentation was established and Ahmet Şenol Armağan was appointed as the Director. The library services carried out at that time in one campus have been carried out in 2 campuses in 2012, in 3 campuses in 2014, in 4 campuses in 2017 and in 5 different campuses as of 2018, in line with the growth of our university. Thus, 4 branch libraries have emerged in the Central Library (MRK). These Branch Libraries are as follows: Library of Health Sciences (SBK), Vocational School Library (MYO), School of Foreign Languages Library (SFL) and Institute Library (ENS).
As of 2024, the Library activities are continued with a total of 18 employees including 10 full-time, 8 part-time Library Staff, 3 Department of University Archive Staff and 6 Assistant Staff. Five of our employees are graduates of Information and Document Management or equivalent. 3 Library staff is a graduate or student of another field and works as a Library Officer. Assistant staff, high school and secondary school graduates.
In 2011, library collection development activities were initiated with 5,500 printed materials. In 2024, the library collection consists of a total of 9,7 million materials, of which 186.000 printed materials and 9,5 million electronic materials. In 2024, the number of library members exceeded 14.500.
Since 2012, the duties and responsibilities of the coordination of the publishing activities of our University has been given to the Department. In this context, 128 books were published until 2024. In addition, 5 academic refereed and 1 popular journal in total, 6 printed and electronic journals are regularly published.
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