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ÇOMÜ Library
The ÇOMÜ Library, the main research library of the Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, is one of the oldest libraries in the southern Marmara Region of Turkey and the largest in southern and western Marmara region. The library is at the centre of the main campus. The ÇOMÜ Library is a 24-hour library, open 365 days a year including holidays. History ÇOMÜ Library was founded in 1992 in the Anafartalar Campus as the main library of the university. At the end of 2002 the collection was transferred to the Terzioğlu Campus. The collection at that time was only 50,000 volumes in 2002. The library reached the number of 250,000 printed volumes in size in the end of 2011. The ÇOMÜ Library, apart from over 2 million PhD and MA thesis, has more than 620,000 separate printed books and about 200,000 e-books. Infrastructure and facilities Main building The main building has 2000 reader places and 120 PC workstations. The library also has working groups hall and foreign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academic Library
An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution and serves two complementary purposes: to support the curriculum and the research of the university faculty and students. It is unknown how many academic libraries there are worldwide. An academic and research portal maintained by UNESCO links to 3,785 libraries. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are an estimated 3,700 academic libraries in the United States. In the past, the material for class readings, intended to supplement lectures as prescribed by the instructor, has been called reserves. In the period before electronic resources became available, the reserves were supplied as actual books or as photocopies of appropriate journal articles. Modern academic libraries generally also provide access to electronic resources. Academic libraries must determine a focus for collection development since comprehensive collections are not feasible. Librarians do this by ide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
