Minutes of the Istanbul School Librarians’ Meeting, Wednesday 13 April 2011
held at SEV Çamlıca Primary School
1.
Apologies, welcome to new members, matters arising from previous meeting - Ruth
Briddock
Present: Ayşe Yüksel (RC), Cara Keyman (ENKA), Ruth Briddock (UAA), Atakan Aydın (UAA), Kurulay
Ateş (UAA),Amanda Bond (IICS), Sevgi Çoban (Beylerbeyi SEV), Berna Gökçe (Çamlıca SEV), Stephanie
Williamson ( Çamlıca + Beylerbeyi SEV),Ebru Tekin (Proquest), Elizabeth Frank ( American Board),
Garrett Drake ( İzmir ACI), George Duvoisin ( Işık Maslak),Şebnem Gursoy (ISTEK Okulları)
Apologies: Billie Alameda (TED Istanbul), Christina Simpson ( İzmir SEV), Mary Berkmen, Çiğdem
Dwyer ( British International School ), Susan Bontly (Mef Int’l) ,John Royce (RC),Sezin Ozkan (TAC),
Hatice Gurz (Tarsus SEV), Fahriye Kilic (ACI), Ebru Avci (Izmir SEV/ACI), Engin Arık ( Ulus Jewish
School)
New members presented to the group- Garret Drake from ACI and George Duvoisin from Işık
Maslak School. Everybody introduced themselves to the new members.
2.
Ebrary presentation / Ebru Tekin (ProQuest)Ebru.Tekin@proquest.co.uk
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Young generation likes using digital sources
Ebrary can be reached anywhere with internet connection
450 publishing partners – Content of the ebrary worth $ 3.000.000
Multi users can reach the same book at the same time
Growing- 4000 new titles are added every year
Hosting is free
Turkey is the second largest market – around 100( two thirds of) universities are using the
product
It has Brittannica and Facts on File
Page limit to print extended to 40 pages per day
Each user can have a password and sign in
To make a citation there is another program called Ref works, but it is not free, subscription
is needed. But it does all styles of citation.
Advance search options ( source type, date, publisher, etc.) and subject directory search are
available
to give the exact price of the product and make a consortium numbers of the students of
attending schools are important, but now it is about $5000 for participating university
libraries in Turkey.
Cara K: If we get the product can we get other products like Culture grams free – Ebru T : It
is possible
Elizabeth F: Copyright date of the products? Ebru T: Will search and answer later
Ruth B : Is there an editorial policy to weed aged titles? Ebru T: will search and answer later.
Ayşe Y: Are there any fiction titles, images , music? Garrett D : Can we put a link on the Opac
page? Kurulay A : How will users reach the database?
After the presentation, group thanked Ebru hanım for the information she gave and she left the
meeting. Discussion about the e-books and databases continued.
Cara K : Interested in a concortium. But not happy with Ebsco , it is not being used a lot. And
reaching the databases can be a problem, because Enka students can’t reach destiny from home.
Ruth B : We like Ebsco, because it has ERIC database and professional development sources, we don’t
know that if the teachers are using efficiently but at least we have it there. Pricing for the ebrary
sounds good, but is it too academic? Questia works almost the same...
Cara K : We have books for the high school level but sometimes they need higher level...
Ruth B: Sirs gives lexile level and sorts it.
Amanda B: She attented an online seminar and Ebsco is beginning to provide e-books as well. But it is
not on-line yet.
Cara K : Price can be very expensive then.
Ayşe Y: ebrary is for universities,more academic?
Cara K: There’s another product - Infobase? It is like Destiny Onesearch, you can merge the databases
and your book search...
3.
Update about ECIS Librarians’ Meeting May 2011 -Cara Keyman
Around 250 people from all over the world are attending the conference.
Registration has been closed, and there is even a waiting list. 7-8 sessions will be held concurrently.
Program is set, web site will be updated.http://ecist.read2live.com/ECIS_Istanbul/Welcome.html
Registration begins at 9:15, conference begins at 9:45. 2,5 day conference, half day is preconference. 120 people will attend the pre-conference.
Follett sponsored a boat trip. It will be on Friday night (13 May) between 4:30 – 7:00.
Conference dinner will be in Portaxe restaurant at Baltalimanı on Saturday.
23 vendor tables will be at the conference.
Cara asked for help for registration desk on Thursday and Friday. Amanda Bond, Stephanie
Williamson, Atakan Aydın, Elizabeth Frank, Şebnem Gürsoyand Ayşe Yüksel volunteered.
4.
News from the Turkish Librarians’ Association Ayse Yüksel / Atakan Aydın
This year Istanbul branch opened the Library Week celebtrations to the public. They arranged a walk
through tunel to Taksim. Many people attented. There was a tram andlibrary school students read
books and played music. Tourists interested and attended the walk! During the week lectures were
given, picture exhibition was held. For more info about the exhibition :
http://www.istanbulkutuphaneleri.org/duyurular.php?cmd=detay&id=66 Professional
photographers visited the libraries and took the pictures. Ankara branch went to Ephesus Celcius
library and Minister ofCulture Ertuğrul Günay made the opening. Some librarians from Greece and
Italy also attended the ceremony. “Library of my imagination” was the topic for the art and
composition competition among high school students. At Özyeğin University a short movie
competiton was held with the same topic. Michael Stephens( Graduate School of Library and
Information Science at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois) gave apresentation about
school libraries and social media.
5.
Collaboration over library curriculum / scope and sequence - Amanda Bond
She attended a meeting about librarianship for IB librarians in Jordan. She got the idea for a pilot
project in IICS where the instruction is enquiry-based. There are 510 students in IICS and Amanda will
endeavour to write a curriculum for the IB school program that is tailored to each student. It’s going
to involve a huge amount of work! But will hopefullly be very beneficial to all involved. She is trying
to build a collection to support the curriculum. There will be standards from 3rd grade to the 12th
grade.Good luck, Amanda
6.
Suppliers for library materials
Amanda B: I am happy to create a database with the suppliers’ names and details.It is good to buy
things locally.
Sebnem G : In Eminönü they are selling book easels in a gift store...
Ruth B: We are refurbishing our library and we are using the Gaylord catalog as our guide to show
some of the things that we want. But, we are trying to find local sources to buy/ have things made
that aresimilar. We worked with Ahmet Kardeş(Gözde Mobilya) before ,
http://www.gozdemobilya.com/category.php?kat=31 and now we are waiting to hear from him
about wooden chairs and tables for the library. He also works outside Turkey, so we are expecting
that the quality of the materials will be good.
In Uskudar we bought barcode scanners –compatible with Follett – from IGE : www.ige.com.tr Contact Person Selçuk Çubuk. We are planning to buy label printer as well from this company. They
can also give technical support.
Label protectors from Yordam http://www.yordam.com/V2/index.php
Bookends from Gemini http://www.geminiltd.com.tr/ ( good quality and not expensive)
Şebnem G : http://www.bigcozybooks.com/This company has many nice pieces of furniture for the
library, but they don’t export to Turkey.
Ruth B : Where do the universities buy their furniture?
Atakan A : Sabancı University got theirs from Italy!
Cara K : As far as I remember Bilkent got from Korçelik. http://korcelikburomobilya.com/ To order
labels, we are using http://www.labelsonline.com/Labels are compatible to print Follett Destiny
barcodes.
7.
Read any good books lately? Sharing time – bring along a book you’ve enjoyed reading
recently (All )
Stephanie W :Grizzly bears by Patricia Kendell. Children love these. It has also RC / AR quizzes.
The year of goodbyes by Debbie Levy. It is a very good book for students who are interested in
Holocaust books. A summary from Follett : Debbie Levy reveals the story of her mother's life in 1938,
the family's last year in Germany before they escaped Nazi persecution, based on the poems,
inscriptions, and drawings collected in twelve-year-old Jutta's autograph book, and describes Jutta's
life in New York City.
Amanda B: How do you buy your magazines?
Ruth B : We use Ebsco.
Cara K : New rep is not responding to the e- mails quickly...
Atakan A: Irep Hanım is on maternity leave. New rep’s name Nihat Uz nihatuz@ebsco.com he
eventually answers.
Cara : Mailboxteacher magazine is very good. Are you getting digital?
Stephanie W : We get print copy.
Atakan A : Graphic guides for nonfiction topics are very nice.
Introducing capitali$m : [a graphic guide] by Dan Cryan. Other titles in this series are,
philosopy, sociology and cultural studies.
Garrett D : Altyazı ( Subtitle) magazine (They recently published 100th issue) general editor Fırat
Yücel came to meet with ACI students during Library week. IB film classes read movie critiques in
English and Turkish, students prepared questionsand asked. After this visit students began reading
and interested more for the magazine.
Palestine by Joe Sacco Description from Amazon:A landmark of journalism and the art form of
comics. Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip
in the early 1990s, this is a major work of political and historical nonfiction.
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco Description from Amazon :The
winner of the 2001 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album. Sacco spent five months in Bosnia in
1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely
found in conventional news coverage, emerging with this astonishing first-person account.
The Beats: A Graphic History by Paul Buhle.
Elizabeth F.: The Pursuit of Success by Sena Ozturan. She is a student of Tarsus American Lisesi. She
also wrote a play about libraries for library week and it was performed at Tarsus. Ayse Y : I wanted to
buy it but Baker & Taylor couldn’t supply. E F: I guess it is self published. But it is sold in Amazon.
Ruth B. : Acting out : six one-act plays! : six Newbery stars! By featuring the playwrights, Avi ... [et
al.] ; edited by Justin Chanda. Summary from Follett : Contains six original one-act plays by Newbery
Award-winning children's authors, including Sharon Creech, Susan Cooper, Avi, Patricia MacLachlan,
Katherine Paterson, and Richard Peck. English Drama teacher liked the book, and they are planning
to teach it in class next year.
Mortal Instruments series : City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass by Cassandra Clare . If your
students like reading Twilight series, they will probably like this one two. It is in the second place
YALSA's Teens' Top Ten2010 Books list.
Kurulay A. : Matched by Ally Condie it is similar to Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins but it is
not as violent.Summary from Amazon : In Matched, the Society Officials have determined optimal
outcomes for all aspects of daily life, thereby removing the "burden" of choice. When Cassia's best
friend is identified as her ideal marriage Match it confirms her belief that Society knows best, until
she plugs in her Match microchip and a different boy’s face flashes on the screen. This improbable
mistake sets Cassia on a dangerous path to the unthinkable--rebelling against the predetermined life
Society has in store for her. As author Ally Condie’s unique dystopian Society takes chilling measures
to maintain the status quo, Matched reminds readers that freedom of choice is precious, and not
without sacrifice.--Seira Wilson The second title “Crossed” will be released Now 1,2011. It is
obvious that this titles will become popular among the kids.
Shout magazine : This British teen magazine is also very popular and higly used by students recently.
It has news about celebrities, and other topics for teenagers. We buy through Ebsco, but it comes
directly from UK.
Cara K. : How are you dealing with seniors and 8th graders?
Ayse Y: Administration helps about it, we give the lists to them and they don’t give their official
papers, and deal personally one by one with the kids..
UAA Librarians : Send sms messages to the parents, administration keeps their diploma. And stops
giving books on April.
Amanda B : Prepares a list of the books not returned and write to the list how much they would cost,
so administration is interested and supportive!
Everybody agreed that administration should inform library if any students/ faculty are leaving
school during the school year. It allows library to ask for borrowed books back.
At the end of the meeting Ruth Briddock announced that she will be leaving next year and go back to
UK. She was very happy to arrange the meetings and meet with all the librarians in the group, and
she believes that this group will continue working for school librarianship and will play a role to be
pioneers in this area inTurkey.Everbody thanked Ms Briddock arranging the meetings and wished
her all the best for her new future.
UAA Librarians Kurulay Ates and Atakan Aydın will be continuing to arrange next meetings with the
new librarian Lesley Lee. Date and place of next meeting will be determined at the beginning of the
new school year, 2011 - 2012.