July is the heart of the summer, the vacation month along with August. But July is also an important milestone for humankind: the launch of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon on July 16, 1969. Neil Armstrong stepped into history July 20, 1969 by leaving the first human footprint on the surface of the moon.

For us in the Library, July is a month when we are less busy in user numbers but more active in finishing projects and be prepared for the upcoming Academic year.

In this issue we give you a quick view of a special collection in ANAMED Library, we inform you about the latest CiteScore metrics to discover more titles in your discipline and publish your research in the right journals and a brief idea of our recent GIS course.

We hope you have a wonderful and relaxing month. Enjoy your vacation!

ANAMED Library Special Collections: Prof. Melek Delilbaşı Collection

ANAMED Library now houses the collection of Prof. Melek Delilbaşı who is one of the most prominent names on Byzantine and Balkan History in Turkey.

After graduating from from Ankara University, she conducted her doctoral studies at the University of Thessaloniki between 1970 - 1972. Completing her doctoral thesis in 1973 at Ankara University, she had a scholarship at the Harvard Byzantinology Institute (Dumbarton Oaks) in Washington, DC from 1987 to 1988. In this year, she became a professor at Ankara University Faculty of Languages, History and Geography. Professor Delilbaşı chaired Ankara University’s department of History from 1989 to 1994; and department of Modern Greek Language and Literature from 1990 to 2005. Currently, she is the vice-president of Association Internationale d’Etudes du Sud-Est Européen (AIESEE) and the president of the Turkish National Committee for Byzantine Studies.

Melek Delilbaşı generously contributed to the process of collection development of ANAMED Library, especially in the fields of late Byzantine history, Balkan history, early Ottoman history, and history of modern Greece by donating her personal collection of 848 volumes in Greek (208 volumes), English (135 volumes), Turkish (248 volumes) and some more in other languages to ANAMED Library in late 2018. For more details: https://anamed.ku.edu.tr/en/special-collections

Publish your research in the right journal

The CiteScore 2018 values are here! CiteScore^TM metrics are freely available for more than 23,830 titles. CiteScore^TM metrics establish a new standard for measuring serial citation impact

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Berkay Kucukbaslar, the Head Librarian in Anamed Library gave a two days (May 13 and 14) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) basic course & workshop. The course was held in the Library and it was designed for Koc University’s Graduate School of Social Sciences & Humanities students. Aiming to introduce the researchers to the basic technical capabilities of the leading GIS software, the course mainly focussed on the ways of obtaining and managing spatial datasets in the context of historical analyses. With full attendance of its 10 participants, this 10-hour course succesfully ended with a narrow-scope workshop on Pervititch maps.