Yeditepe University Istanbul

November 15, 2009 20:58 by haci

GENERAL

UNIVERSITY LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTER

The Yeditepe University Library and Information Center is composed of a Central Library and Information Center and two specialized libraries, one for School of Dentistry and the other for the MBA Program, both of which are presently located outside the main campus.

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The Central Library and Information Center is located on the first floor of the Rectorate building on the 26 August Campus of the University. It occupies 3.000 square meters covered area. It provides extensive reading areas, group discussion and study rooms, etc. The Center is equipped with about 60 computers with Internet access. It has a seating capacity of 300 users. There are about 35.000 printed materials on the shelves. The library has 1321 periodicals with subscriptions to databases, some periodicals, the Official Gazzette, and daily newspapers and magazines. In addition to the books and periodicals in the Central Library and Information Center, the specialized library of the School of Dendistry has about 620, and the MBA library has more 1500 books and about 150 periodicals. In the library collection there are several hundred compact discs, Masters theses and Doctoral Dissertations. There are about 685 reference sources like dicitionaries, encyclopedias, etc. The number of books, periodicals and other materials is rapidly growing.

The Library and Information Center is using the Library of Congress Cataloging system. The Center is making use of the BLISS Library Automation System and has an online catalog.

The Library and Information Center is subscribed to the Proquest Online Databases that includes Abi-Inform Global, Science and Technology Package , general Science Plus Text, Proquest Computing, Literature Online and Proquest Medline.

ProQuest ABI INFORM GLOBAL-Full Text+Full Image Database covers 1.623 periodicals in the area of social sciences, business administration and economics. This database also provides full and reliable information on 60.000 international companies.

ProQuest SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY PACKAGE-Full text+Image Database covers 1105 journals/periodicals in different areas of science and engineering. ProQuest GENERAL SCIENCE PLUS TEXT Full Text + Full Image Database is comprised of 188 periodicals in sciences; and ProQuest COMPUTING FullText + Full Image Database is comprised of 266 periodicals in the area of computers and computer programming.

LITERATURE ONLINE-Full Text+Full Image Database provides access to more than 330.000 periodicals.

Finally, ProQuest MEDLINE American National Library of Medicine MeSH Database provides access to 11 milyon articles in 4300 periodicals from 1966 to date.

At present, the Library and Information Center has a staff of highly knowledgeable 9 librarians and 15 Students Assistants.

Central library gives service to more than 10.000 students and about 1000 faculty and administrative staff. The daily average number of service users is about 2000.

The Center is open during 8:30 A.M.-12:00 P.M. hours seven days of the week.

26 AGUSTOS CAMPUS
Kayısdagi Street,
34755 Kayisdagi-Istanbul - Turkey
Operator: (090) (216) 578 00 00
Fax: (090) (216) 578 02 49
Fax: (090) (216) 578 02 44
e-mail: halklailiskiler@yeditepe.edu.tr

Web   : http://www.yeditepe.edu.tr