ABOUT
Aim
This symposium aims at the development of dialogue between practitioners of fields such as librarianship, archiving and documentation and institutions providing services for this area, realize a scientific and social interaction for different disciplines and ensure the sharing of good application examples/experiences in this matter.
In this context, academics interested in the subject, practitioners, researchers, company representatives and all individuals are expected to attend the symposium.
SCOPE
The ÜNAK2017 symposium will discuss the spread of the increasing use of electronic resources in recent years, the effect on budget, collection, staff and key elements of university libraries and the problems resulting from these effects under the main topic “Resource Management in Academic Libraries”. Changes of recent years have led to significant changes in the traditional library management, service and understanding. As a natural result of these developments, the establishment of new approaches and policies in terms of library budget, collection and staff management have become necessary.
The main element of resource management in academic libraries, budget planning, has brought different payment problems due to increased purchases of electronic resources in recent years. Therefore during the symposium topics, besides differences of payment items and legal obstacles, such as difficulties brought by the movable property regulations, legal problems created by the purchase of virtual resources, budgetary provisions for the ownership and uses options, consortium purchases in the annual budget calculations and the effect of national-based buying especially in state universities, will be discussed and examined in scope of budget planning and payment problems within the framework of existing laws.
The spread of e-books and e-journals in library collections, which lead to a change of the collection structure and factors such as the variety of methods carried out in order to deliver the printed and electronic sources to the user have led to major changes in the traditional collection development and management philosophy.
This change in the collection structure and its effect on library services have brought a different point of view to the personnel management. Different approaches in topics such as staff recruitment, in-service training, subject matter expertise, faculty librarianship and electronic resources librarianship have emerged. This is why difficulties in “personnel management” in academic libraries and solutions will be discussed together during the symposium and approaches examined, which may be the key to public and private universities.
The symposium will include presentations of our library practitioners, which consist of applications in our libraries, reports including the academic dimension of the content and presentations of relevant firms of the sector within a balanced program.
All reports and presentations send to the “ÜNAK2017 Resource Management in Academic Libraries” symposium will be published electronically as e-book.
We thank you for your participation and support at previous ÜNAK meetings and are happy to welcome you at the ÜNAK2017 symposium.
Let’s meet again at the ÜNAK2017 Symposium…
The subtopics of the symposium are the following:
BUDGET
• Budget planning and planning issues
• Purchasing processes
• Management and payment problems of e-resources
• Management and budgeting of printed sources
• Movable Property Regulation
COLLECTION
• Restructuring
• Selection and evaluation
• Obtaining statistical data and evaluation
• Infrastructure problems
• Copyright problem of e-sources (legal regulations)
PERSONNEL
• Staff recruitment
• In-service training
• Staff-oriented services
• Specialization
• Raising of staff qualifications
Invited Speakers
Prof. Dr. Bülent Yılmaz
Hacettepe University, Department of Infromation Management, Turkey
Prof. Dr. Bülent Yılmaz graduated from the Department of Librarianship, Faculty of Letters at Hacettepe University. He worked as a specialist at Gazi University Library. He got Master’s and PhD degrees at the Department of Information Management, Hacettepe University where he received the title of Assistant Professor in 1998, Associate Professor in 2000 and Professor in 2005. He conducted international projects and researches as part of National Agency and European Union. He visited various countries for the purpose of scientific events. He has organized Public Libraries Regional Seminars since 2006. He is a member of referee board of some academic journals. He was Vice President of Turkish Librarians’ Association, President of Turkish Librarians’ Association Intellectual Freedom Group, member of Turkish Librarians’ Association Professional Ethics Group, editor of Turkish Librarianship journal and assistant editor of Information World journal. He is still a lecturer and department head at the Department of Information Management, Hacettepe University. He teaches and continues his studies on the topics as communication, professional ethics, Anatolian civilizations, information society, information politics, public libraries, reading culture, digitization and organization of information.
Prof. Dr. Özlem Gökkurt
Ankara University, Department of Infromation Management, Turkey
Professor Özlem Gökkurt received her PhD, BA and MA in library and information science (LIS) from Ankara University in Turkey. She was awarded the Emily Dean Prize for the best graduate thesis in 1989. She also received a visitor’s grant from The British Council in 1993. Dr. Gökkurt earned her second graduate degree in LIS (MLIS) from St. John’s University in 2004. As for her professional experience, she was offered an assistantship for designing web sites at St. John’s University Library. Before joining the faculty of Ankara University, she worked as a librarian in different types of libraries including UNICEF, Central Bank of the Turkish Republic and the Middle East Technical University Libraries. She served as an assistant director of Turkish Librarians’ Association in 1997-1999. Dr.Gökkurt has published a large number of papers and edited several books, engaged in research projects. Currently, she teaches informetrics, information resources and management, classification systems and metadata in Ankara University. Her research interests are in citation analysis, information resources and management, open access and institutional repositories, thesaurus and metadata development.
University Libraries and National Academic e- Publications : “A Huge, Huge Giant Open Library Fantasy”
Prof. Dr. Özlem GÖKKURT
Stunning advances and transitions in information technologies has completely changed the methods and environments of scientific communication. Libraries as the heart of academic and scientific world have been absorbed by such alteration process. Acceleration of enriched collections with commercial databases has provided environment to users that tend their information access and sharing electronic resources rather than print particularly in scientific coterie. Although use value of electronic publications has been increasing, such increase not to be deemed for libraries’ purchasing power of these publications. In particularly, in the last two decade, consortia purchasing has been carried out in the countries in which the inflation rate has increased, that has also been inevitably accepted in our country. University libraries have embarked on a quest of alternative models for raising fund use with sharing limited resources among multiple libraries by reconsidering their strategies and policies for fund management. From the day it’s start the today’s date, it has been observed that open access publishing has been provided significant expansion to scientific communication in our country. Open access publishing is an improver implementation that has been developed as a counteraction to the monopolist approach of commercial database publishers which partially participation is encouraged in producing and marketing electronic information resources. The professions of library and information science have made crucial efforts and initiatives for the adoption of open access publishing in which a large number of Universities have been accumulated independently with their institutional policies, that is in the process of shifting to a national policy today. Although the positive developments in the subject, when it is considered the fullest extent of technical infrastructure, human resources and budget restrictions, we as information professionals have worries for the future struggles whereas that would be at the adequate and competency level. This adaptation struggle, however, is long-lasting in parallel with predicted technological advancements of digital world and self-organized coordination of university libraries. Librarians and the whole partners of scientific information dissemination should be in the position of unite their resources with the consortia implications at the national scale and reveal new strategies in the electronic publishing sector.
Muhteşem Önder
Özyeğin University, Library Director, Turkey
He received his B.A. degree in Public Relations Istanbul University Faculty of Communications in 2000. He also studied in Naval High School Faculty of Electrics and Electronics for two years. He received his M. A. degree in Özyeğin University, Graduate School of Business in 2013. He worked at Koç University Library as circulation and reference librarian for eight years till 2008. He joined the Özyeğin University as faculty librarian in 2008. He had worked as User Services Team Leader since 2012. As of August, 2016 he is appointed as Library Deputy Director. As of February, 2017 he is appointed as Library Director. His areas of expertise include electronic resource management and information literacy.