Bilkent Celebrates Library Week
Every year, during the last week of March, Turkey celebrates Library Week to recognize the important role of libraries and librarians in our daily and professional lives. This year, to mark Library Week, Bilkent Library is holding a number of cultural and fun activities open to all members of the university community.
The first activity took place on Monday, March 26, as part of the nationwide "Book Reading Event" that opened the 48th Library Week in Turkey. Bilkent Library organized a communal outdoor book reading, with students, faculty members, librarians and other Bilkent staff members bringing their own books to read together during the noon hour in the grass area next to the Library.
If you missed this activity, don't worry: there are many more events still to come. On Tuesday, March 27, Prof. Barbaros Tansel (IE) will hold a "Latin American Dance Workshop" at 2-3:30 p.m. in the Library Art Gallery, open to experienced dancers and beginners alike.
On Wednesday at 12:30 p.m., also in the Art Gallery, the Library will host a mini-concert, with recitals by students from the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, followed by a traditional dance performance by students from the İDF Bilkent High School Folklore Dance Group. Please come to enjoy these performances and support the young musicians and dancers!
Thursday, March 29, will be Library Open Day: there will be three separate tours (at 10:40 a.m., 12:40 p.m. and 2:40 p.m.) of Main Campus Library, visiting various specialist collections as well as technical departments not normally open to non-librarians. If you would like to find out more about how the Library works, please join one of these tours, which will commence in the Art Gallery and last about one hour.
Finally, on Friday at noon in the
Art Gallery, Bilkent Library will announce the three submissions judged best in the Library Week Writing Competition. Rector Prof. Abdullah Atalar will present a DOST gift certificate to the winning author.
For more information about these Library Week activities, please see our website:
http://library.bilkent.edu.tr /libraryweek/libweek.html