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School Libraries in Turkey

Derya Arslan

Mehmet Akif Ersoy University

Education Faculty

Burdur, TURKEY

1Studyvisit, Portugal, 2011

Contents

• Library

Public

School

Class

• Library Budget

• Library Evaulation

Libraries

School

ClassroomPublic

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Public

• They are in management of The

Ministry of Culture.

• And there are other public libraries in

management of munipality.


• Librarians are graduated from

information and records management

departments.

• Faculties up-to-date their

undergraduate curriculum.


• As per the decision of the Higher

Education Council in 2002, the divisions

of Librarianship, Archiving, and

Documentation and Information at the

Departments of Librarianship were

merged and the Department of

Librarianship was renamed as the

"Department of Information and

Records Management" with a new

curriculum.



• Beside, people graduated from

different areas are also working as a

librarian.

• But all of them must attend a

selection exam in order to begin.


School

• They are in management of The

Ministry of Education.

• According to regulations if the school

library has more than 3000 books,

Ministry of Education staff a librarian

to this library.


• If not, a teacher can work as a

librarian.

• But in most of primary, elementray or

high schools, library club works for

library.


Library Club

• There is a director who is a Turkish

language Teacher, Tecnology or

Classroom teacher.

• Students choose the club voluntarily.

• After the meeting of library club, club

students begin to work in part time

or during the break at the library

voluntarily.


• By this way school library is opened

for students.

• Library clup students give other

students books and record their

names to library notebooks or

computer system.

• Students have timetables, they work

nearly two hours per day or during

breaks.


Daily Schedule

• Morning classes start at 08:00, end at

13:00

• Afternoon classes start at 13:00, end at

18:00

• A full day school starts at 09:00, ends at

15:00


• Students, teachers and parents use

library.

• Library clup teacher catalogs the

resources.

• First to fifth classes, classroom

teacher helps students about studying

in library and organize lessons in

there.


• Sixth to eighth grade Turkish language

teacher guides students about library.

• Students with special educational

needs attend library as other students

do.



Class

• Every classroom has a library, too.

• Class teacher orginize the library.

• Students who are the members of

Library club help teacher.

• Club students give books to their

friends.


• In Turkey there is a Student

Information System.

• Class teachers in Burdur also save the

information about books that student

read (book name, writer, book page

etc.).


• Every school has internet in Turkey.

• And most of them has ICT classes.

• In Burdur city center every class has

one computer and internet

connection.

• Mostly class library promote ITC

literacy.

Library Budget

• School principal working with library

club teacher decides the budgets.

• There are some particular

sponsorship.

• For example, people from city can

give money to create a library (books

and book shelves) in primary schools.


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Mehmet Akif Ersoy

Primary School











• Sometimes students or teachers

organize book campaigns for school

libraries.

• Civil society organizations are also

collecting books which can be used or

new and then send schools these

books.







• Sometimes in our education faculty

teacher candidates organize book

campaigns for their friends that are

working as a teacher in primary

schools which has no libraries.



Library Evaluation



• In Turkey Education Superviser

evaluate the library.

• Superviser inspect the documents

that library club teacher prepeared.

• And also check the library books.

TO-KAT


• The Turkish Academic Network and

Information Centre (ULAKBIM) is

an institute of The Scientific and

Technological Research Council of

Turkey (TÜBİTAK).


• ULAKBIM’s main objectives have

been set as operating a high speed

computer network enabling

interaction within the institutional

elements of the national innovation

system, and providing information

technology support and information

services to help scientific production.

• National Catalog (TO-KAT) is a

project of Culture Ministry and The

Turkish Academic Network and

Information Centre.

• The main aim of this project is to

gathered all libraries in Turkey in one

digital library system.


• National Catalog was started in 2008.

• Only the libraries which are the

members of National Catalog System

can be searched.

• University and school libraries can be

members of National Catalog.


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