Updates
Discover the latest developments in private archives, institutional news, exhibitions, events, publications, and archival work.
Events
Atatürk Library Archive and Memory Seminars – 2
For the second Archive and Memory Seminar, the Atatürk Library is hosting GETEM, the Technology and Education Laboratory for the Visually Impaired. Engin Yılmaz will discuss the archive’s importance and its contribution to social awareness and memory on Wednesday, November 10, at 19:00.
News
New Collection!
The Keskin Color Postcard and Archive Collection is now at Koç University’s Suna Kıraç Library. Its approximately 10,000 items include photographs taken by brothers Naci and Abdullah Keskin in the 1950s and postcards and slides produced between 1962 and the late 1990s.
Events
15th Archives Day
The 15th Archives Day Symposium, organized by the Information and Records Management departments of the Faculties of Letters at Atatürk University and Istanbul University together with the Turkish Archivists Association, will be held online on November 9, 2021. Its theme is “Current Issues in Turkish Archival Practice.”
Publications
Information and Document Studies: Theory and Practice in Private Archives
Information and document management is a field that is constantly enriched, renewed, has very broad boundaries, and is highly enjoyable to work in. Those who enter the profession after undergraduate education increase their knowledge over time, finding new…
Events
Atatürk Library Archive and Memory Seminars – 1
The Atatürk Library invites us to rethink our relationship with the past through archives and memory. The series begins at 19:00 on Wednesday, October 20, with Tuba Çavdar Karatepe’s talk, “Who Cares About Archives?”
News
Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation
With support from the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul, the Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation is preparing to make a selection from its archives and collections available online. The digitization and cataloguing project began in 2021.