connect and share

I am Ertuğrul Çimen, a librarian from Turkey who graduated from Hacettepe University (Ankara, Turkey) and majored in Library Science.
My professional interests are academic library management, library consortia, library collaboration, resource sharing and document delivery, life-long learning, and staff exchange programs for librarians. I am the editor of professional academic journals such as Information Discovery and Delivery.
In addition, I have an active role in various NGOs and professional organizations at the national and international levels. I chaired the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS) for two terms, which leads the electronic resource procurement, professional communication, and development activities of over 200 Turkish academic libraries and uses a huge amount of annual budget. I served as the founding coordinator of ANKOS Academy and ANKOS Personnel Exchange programs. In addition, I served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Librarians Association (TLA). 
While continuing my career as a librarian, I have also completed the Finance and Banking Master's program at Social Sciences Institute, Kadir Has University (Istanbul, Turkey). It turned out that the program provided me an opportunity to improve myself in areas that are very critical for an academic library administrator, such as budgeting, personnel management, and performance evaluation.