As you will remember, last week marked the 51th Library Week in Turkey. Bilkent Library organized a number of activities to celebrate Library Week, including a concert by students from FMPA and participation in the nationwide communal book-reading event.
The aim of Library Week was to draw the attention of society to books and librarians and also to develop community awareness of the habit of reading.
Many Bilkenters, including Bilkent kindergarten students, came to the area in front of the Rectorate Building for the book-reading session during the noon hour on April 1. The day was cool but sunny, and readers of all ages brought everything from novels to monographs to picture books to enjoy in the company of others.
Also taking place at the Library last week, though not as part of the Library Week program, was a lecture by Prof. Orhan Güvenen, “Some Comments on Transdisciplinary Science Methodology.” The talk was given on Thursday, April 2, as one of the Library’s Lunchtime Lectures for this semester.
Speaking to an attentive audience of students and instructors, Prof. Güvenen outlined the need for twenty-first-century scientists to adopt a more integrated and cooperative approach to their research in order to optimize problem solving and reduce error margins and information distortion. He argued that the highly specialized and discipline-focused models of research and education characteristic of the last century are becoming less valid.