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 solutions to problems they have not encountered before and developing innovative services with new methods. I have always believed that it would be very beneficial for these good practices to have more presence in both the literature and the curricula. I am working to ensure that some of the elective courses in our curriculum are taught by successful librarians and archivists. However, due to bureaucratic reasons, this seems to take some time. In a recent letter from our rectorate, it is requested that “…the needs for teaching staff in your unit should primarily be met by assigning the university’s permanent teaching staff to courses and thesis supervision,…” and the reason for this is explained as financial obligations related to the audits of the Court of Accounts. Given this situation for courses, we began to think together with Research Assistant Dr. Elif Yılmaz Şentürk and Research Assistant Varol Sağlam, with whom we frequently discuss how theory and practice complement each other and the importance of case presentations in the process we worked together on the Marmara Visual Memory Project. We decided to publish a series of books that will bring together both theoretical studies and other stakeholders, practitioners, problem-solvers, thinkers, those with different perspectives, and good examples on the topics we selected. We determined the subject of the first book to be private archives, which we consider important and a priority.
Information and Document Studies: Theory and Practice in Private Archives
