LIBRARY AND MEDIA CENTER

The Central Library

Eyüboğlu Educational Institutions’ libraries serve Eyüboğlu students, teachers, parents, graduates and employees with a rich collection consisting of 52,000 volumes of books and other materials in all the languages that the school offers instruction in, 63 periodicals and a database subscription.

There are two libraries on Eyüboğlu campus: High School Library and Media Center (Central Library) and Çamlıca Primary School Library. The Primary School building also houses a Research Center designed and organized in accordance with the IB PYP units of inquiry. The Research Center , which works in coordination with the library, aims to enable the students to actively use a wide range of audio visual materials as well as printed and electronic resources in their learning and research. In addition to the 52,000 volumes written in the various languages taught at Eyüboğlu, the libraries hold approximately 2000 CDs, DVDs, VCDs and other non-print materials. Furthermore, the libraries have subscriptions to 63 periodicals and 1 database.

The libraries are available to the students during school hours for individual use as well as for work conducted under the supervision of teachers. The libraries are open until 18:00 hours during the week and on Saturdays so that the students can use the library also outside school hours. The recently renovated Central Library houses two classrooms one of which is equipped with computers so that the teachers are provided with the facilities to teach right within the library. In addition to that, there are 3 rooms designed for the purposes of individual or group work. The library is equipped with 15 computers for browsing the Internet or the on-line library catalogue. The technical facilities of the libraries are updated constantly. Also available in the libraries are photocopiers, printers, scanners, TV, DVD player and video. All the transactions are carried out through the library automation program ATHENA. Thanks to this program which provides an on-line catalogue, the bibliographic information regarding all of the resources in the library (books, magazines, materials other than books) can be accessed from the library or from outside, through Eyüboğlu’s website.

Eyüboğlu Central Library and Media Center consists of five sections:

• Lending services
• Periodicals
• Reference books
• İsmet Zeki Eyüboğlu Collection
• Ertan Engin Collection
• Multimedia section.

The primary school library on the other hand has been decorated cheerfully with characters from children’s books to suit the tastes and meet the needs of younger children and to inculcate in them a love for books and interest in reading.

In addition to the “Information Literacy course which is offered to 6 th and 7 th Grade students, the libraries also accommodate regular unit-based library work conducted by students in each grade level. Furthermore, in order to encourage reading, the libraries keep track of the students who read most and announce the bookworm of the month. Those students’ book reports are then exhibited. At the end of the year the top three students who read the most are awarded with a plaquette.

The libraries and the media centers are available to all Eyüboğlu students, parents, employees and graduates who are expected to obey certain rules while using these facilities.

Çamlıca Primary School Library and Media Center

Çamlıca Primary School Library and Media Center hold 17,000 printed and audiovisual materials in Turkish and in English. The library has subscriptions to 5 magazines in English, 6 magazines in Turkish and 3 daily newspapers. Each grade level in the Primary School is given research skills instruction in the library. The Research Center which is designed in line with the PYP units of inquiry works in coordination with the library.

Regulations governing the use of school libraries

1. People using the library should not enter with bags, coats, food or drink. Such possessions should be left in the cupboards located at the entrance of the library.

2. The mobile phones should be switched off in the library.

3. The users may not disturb others by speaking loudly and may not run in the library.

4. While libraries are freely accessible during breaks and after school, any student wishing to use a library during class time must show evidence of permission from their teacher.

5. Teachers who plan to take their classes to the library during class hours should make reservations through “form.eyuboglu.com”.

6. The primary school teachers should make their library reservations during the last week of each month.

7. The teachers and students can make photocopies of up to 10 pages of the resources in the library. For students the photocopying price per page is 20YKR. Photocopying of resources other than those in the library is not allowed.

8. In the Central Library the students and the teachers can take up to 10 pages of computer print-outs. The price per page is 20YKR for black and white print outs and 25YKR for color print-outs.

9. The library stops lending books two weeks before the end of each academic year. At the end of the academic year, all the users are required to return to the library the books that they have borrowed.

10. The materials and resources in the library may not be displaced, but should rather be left on the tables after being used.

11. At the end of the academic year, the student who has read highest number of books will be given an award.

12. The librarians can be contacted for any needed information.

13. The librarians will provide the needed information from available resources at the library or will direct to appropriate sources of information.