University and Research Librarians Association

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University and Research Librarians Association

• Aytaç Yildizeli
• ÜNAK President
• LIBER Meeting, Istanbul

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CONTENTS / OUTLINE

• THE GOALS OF ÜNAK
• FIELDS OF ACTIVITY OF ÜNAK
• MEMBERSHIP OF ÜNAK
• SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES ORGANISED BY ÜNAK
• ÜNAK PUBLICATIONS
• ÜNAK WORKING GROUPS

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ÜNAK

• University and Research Librarians
  Association,
• ÜNAK in short (by abbreviating its Turkish name),
• was founded in the year 1991, with headquarters
  in Ankara.
• It is a non-profit organisation.

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THE GOALS OF ÜNAK

• In the ÜNAK-Charter the goals of the Association
  were briefly stated as follows
• Investigating the problems faced by the
  university and research libraries, documentation
  and information centres in relation to todays
  rapidly changing and advancing technologies
• making international comparisons of similar
  problems and solutions

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THE GOALS OF ÜNAK

• also examining and providing solutions to various
  problems of human resources working in
  information centres
• planning and conducting activities especially
  concerning the implementation of new
  technologies
• in short, taking the steps to render the
  mentioned information centres compatible in their
  functioning with the contemporary concepts of
  library science.

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FIELDS OF ACTIVITY OF ÜNAK

• Major fields of activity of ÜNAK can be
  exemplified as follows
• Organising education and training activities in
  forms of conferences, seminars, workshops and
  symposia with the main aim to provide
  professional advancement to library and
  information personnel.
• Preparing and publishing authentic and translated
  books and periodicals with the aim of especially
  reflecting new developments in library and
  information sciences.

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FIELDS OF ACTIVITY OF ÜNAK

• Implementing projects, and also encouraging and
  supporting original research in the topics of
  interest of the Associations main fields of
  activity.
• Securing and supporting professional solidarity,
  in the sense to contribute solutions of problems,
  and providing consultancy and arbitration
  services.
• Collaborating with organisations having similar
  goals.

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MEMBERSHIP OF ÜNAK

• ÜNAK number of members had been increased to 630.
• Apart from the rules for a usual membership to an
  association in Turkey,
• the members should have been graduated from
  undergraduate programs of higher education at
  university level, and/or working or having been
  worked in libraries, information centres etc. or
  University Departments of Librarianship,
  Information and Documentation Management and the
  like.

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SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES ORGANISED BY ÜNAK

• Most important scientific activities being
  organised by ÜNAK are
• BLISS Meeting (to be held on yearly basis)
• ÜNAK/OCLC Meeting (again on yearly basis)
• ÜNAK Yearly General Meeting
• Education and training programs
• Union Catalogue Project
• They will be explained in detail.

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ÜNAK/OCLC CONSORTIUM

• Ohio College Library Centre (OCLC) was founded in
  1967, and then after renaming in 1981 as Online
  Computer Library Centre, became
• an international information-documentation
  provision/distribution/sharing centre to which
  60.000 libraries of 112 countries are subscribed
  nowadays.
• On November 2000 the formation was formally
  established, and transformed into a consortium.

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UNION CATALOGUE PROJECT

• These activities were initiated by OCLC in 2001.
• In 2004, the project was presented to the
  Turkish National Academic Information Centre
  (ULAKBIM).
• In 2005 ULAKBIM undertook the software section.
• In 2006, activities were initiated by the
  Ministry of Culture within the scope of an
  e-Government project.
• ÜNAK has primarily advisory roles in the projects.

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ÜNAK DATABASES

• ÜNAK presents also the following databases
• Guide of Turkish Information and Documentation
  Centres
• Whos who in Turkish librarianship?
• Search page of subject headings (in
  Turkish-English and English-Turkish versions).
• Glossary of Library Science (to appear soon)
• Some more information about them can be stated as
  follows

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GUIDE FOR TURKISH INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION
CENTRES

• The main purpose of starting with the guide was
  to bring together quite a necessary information
  of Turkish information and documentation centres
  and make electronic accessibility possible
  through a common database, pursuing therewith the
  following aims
• Identifying the Turkish Information Centres in
  terms of collection, personnel and services
  supplied, as well as the appropriate conditions
  for possible cooperation.
• Presenting the contact information, and rules and
  systems of information centres,
• Thus forming a basis for scientific studies in
  the field of librarianship, which also includes
  support in current and statistical information.

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WHOS WHO IN TURKISH LIBRARIANSHIP

• With the primary aims of
• promoting colleagues working in Information and
  Documentation Centres, by presenting their
  qualifications and contact information,
• for the sake of developing cooperative efforts
  and sound assistance for research and other
  studies,
• and hence to strengthen communication,
• and also to identify the characteristics of
  Turkish labour force in this field.
• ÜNAK initiated and proceeds onwards with Whos
  who in Turkish librarianship? to introduce the
  necessary biographical information.

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SEARCH PAGE FOR SUBJECT HEADINGS

• The mentioned activity aims at enabling the
  topics utilised in University catalogues of
  Turkey to be browsed through a single interface.

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ÜNAK PUBLICATIONS

• ÜNAK publications can be classified in 3
  categories as
• the learned journal Bilgi Dünyasi (Information
  World),
• Newsletter of the University and Research
  Librarians Association,
• Books.
• Some more information about them will be
  presented as follows

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THE PERIODICAL INFORMATION WORLD (BILGI DÜNYASI)

• Information World is going to be regularly
  published twice a year. It contains authentic
  articles, opinion papers and book reviews (along
  with professional news and professional meeting
  announcements), both in Turkish and in English.
• The articles to appear in the learned journal
  should reflect original research work in the
  areas of information science, documentation,
  librarianship and allied disciplines. It would
  also be desirable to gain articles upon
  investigations concerning recent innovations in
  the realm of the rapid technological change in
  the fields of information science.

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INFORMATION WORLD

• Information World is indexed and abstracted in
• Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA),
• EBSCOHOST-LISTA (Library Information Science and
  Technology Abstracts)
• Index Copernicus,
• TUBITAK-ULAKBIM Social Sciences Database.
• Being an open-access journal, also listed in DOAJ
  and E-Lis.

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ÜNAK NEWSLETTER

• The specific publication policy of ÜNAK
  Newsletter is
• informing the members of ÜNAK on the activities
  of the Association,
• sharing the outcomes of those activities,
• publishing articles authored by colleagues,
• announcing member-related news.

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BOOKS

• The following list might also give the impression
  on what kind of publications were made
• Kütüphaneci, Bilim Adami ve Arastirma
  Kütüphanesinin Gelecegi (The Future of the
  Librarian, Scientist and Research Libraries)
• Bilgi Hizmetleri ve Mevzuati (Information
  Services, and the Related Laws and Legal Aspects
  Guiding and Governing those Services)
• Kaynak Gösterme El Kitabi (Handbook of
  Citations)
• Türkiye Tip ve Saglik Bilimleri Rehberi, 2007 (A
  Guide to Turkish Medical Sciences, 2007)
• ÜNAK Yearly General Meeting Proceedings

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ÜNAK WORKING GROUPS

• Working groups and/or teams were also established
  by ÜNAK in the following fields
• ÜNAK Medicine and Health Sciences Working Group
• Turkish Platform of Law Librarians
• Young ÜNAK.
• Some more information about these working groups
  can be stated as follows!

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ÜNAK MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES WORKING GROUP

• Medicine and Health Services Working Group in
  affiliation with ÜNAK started in 2000. Its aims
  can be subsumed as follows
• Contributing to the development and availability
  of medical information,
• Supporting a handbook on medical information,
• Organising meetings in Turkey, with the primary
  goal of contributing the advancement of Turkish
  medical librarianship,
• Contributing to the standardisation of Turkish
  medical science terminology,
• Supporting activities of publication in the
  field,
• Preparing and promoting projects on the efficient
  availability of medical information.

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TURKISH PLATFORM OF LAW LIBRARIANS

• Turkish Platform of Law Librarians was
  established in 2007. The platform works according
  to the rules and regulations of ÜNAK (University
  and Research Librarians Association) The
  objectives of the Turkish Platform of Law
  Librarians can be expressed as follows
• To increase the cooperation and information
  sharing between the libraries of Turkey that
  serve for the field of law.
• To announce and arrange panels and workshops in
  the annual meetings of ÜNAK.
• To enable international contacts and sharing
  comprising advancements in law and legal
  documentation.
• To pioneer a Turkish database of law, owing to
  international standards.
• To support the actions concerning the
  institutional archives of law and open access.

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YOUNG ÜNAK

• ÜNAK launched Young ÜNAK formation within the
  year 2007. The mission and vision of Young ÜNAK
  can be summarised as follows
• Mission Increasing the level of cooperation and
  establishing lively communication among the
  students of Librarianship, Documentation and
  Information Management.
• Vision With the support of ÜNAK, paving the way
  for the voices, ideas and thoughts of students of
  Librarianship, Documentation and Information
  Management.

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PRINCIPLES OF YOUNG-ÜNAK ACTIVITIES

• Concerning Team Work
• Enabling active participation of all the
  students.
• Creating preconditions for professional unity and
  solidarity.
• Adopting the aim of advancing Young-ÜNAK within
  the realm of team-work activities.
• Concerning education
• Contributing to the professional, socio-cultural
  and personal advancement of the students,
  especially during the course of their
  undergraduate studies.

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PRINCIPLES OF YOUNG-ÜNAK

• To remain impartial and ethical
• Protecting the unique values of mankind.
• Respecting differences of views and opinions
  among persons.
• To enable to abstain from the advocacy of
  religious, ideological, political etc. ideas
  within the group.
• Concerning initiatives and entrepreneurship
• Appreciating and supporting individual ideas,
  studies and projects.
• Organising activities leading to the realisation
  and propagation of student ideas and research
  perspectives.

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MORE ON YOUNG-ÜNAK

• Within the future agenda of Young-ÜNAK, there
  exist the aims
• to broaden the present activities outside the
  boundaries of Ankara, comprising all the Turkish
  Universities,
• to increase the social activities among
  participants.
• NOTE THAT
• for all the relevant purposes, a web-page
• http//www.unak.org.tr/gencunak/
• and a Yahoo-based list group
• http//groups.yahoo.com/group/gencunak
• were created

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MORE ON YOUNG INDIVIDUALS

• Apart from the Young-ÜNAK activities, what is
  performed by ÜNAK for young individuals can be
  summarised as follows
• Delivering training to students of Departments of
  Librarianship, Documentation and Information
  Management.
• Organising meetings on the profession.
• Providing material support to successful
  students, in form of scholarships and in various
  means of research activity finance.
• Assisting young individuals in finding employment
  relevant to their fields of graduation.

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THANK YOU!

• Address Marmara sokak 38/17,
• 06420 Yenisehir-ANKARA/TÜRKIYE
• Web-page
• http//www.unak.gov.tr
• ÜNAK Discussion List
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