Purpose
To be a modern, innovative, and pioneer learning center that gives the opportunity for lifelong-learning, ethical, information literate individuals to realize themselves.
Goal
The mission of our libraries is to provide information resources that will support the academic, social, and cultural improvement of all individuals composing the school community, to encourage these people to read, to offer quality information services that make it possible for them to improve their lifelong learning competencies through information literacy and academic honesty trainings.
Koç School Libraries are learning centers that enable individuals who are lifelong learners and have ethical values to realize themselves in line with the school’s mission and vision. There are three libraries on campus, in primary, middle and high schools, with quality print and electronic publication collections. These libraries where competent information and document management specialists are employed serve their users with their technological hardware and spatial design suitable for individual and group studies.
Offering resources and information services to our students at K12 level, academic and administrative staff, our libraries carry on their activities as an important component of the education environment.
Collection
We have a print and electronic publication collection which includes information resources in various languages, topics, types, and formats and has been created since 1993 by considering the diversity of the national and international education programs of The Koç School. The print materials are cataloged according to the Destiny library automation program DEWEY Decimal Classification System and offered to the users through the open shelf system and web catalog.
Composed of over 6500 e-books, 7000 e-magazines and newspapers, digital encyclopedia and article data bases, our electronic publications collection is open to our users’ access for 24/7. Our collection includes Encyclopedia Britannica, Jstore, EBSCO, Tumble Book Library, Sora (electronic book collection), Sayısal Kitap (Turkish electronic book collection) and PressReader (digital magazine and newspapers) data bases. Moreover, our students are offered NoodleTools subscriptions that enable them to organize the information resources they use in their research processes, to follow the academic integrity principles and to create a bibliography in line with international citation formats.
Providing an opportunity to access current, reliable and quality information by following the developing world and changing information technologies, our rich print and electronic publications collection continues its development in a wide range by meeting the requests and needs of our students, teachers and all stakeholders.
User Services
In addition to reading culture projects for developing the habit and pleasure of reading, presentations on information literacy and academic honesty training, trainings on how to access print and electronic information resources and efficiently use them, class activities that support national and international curriculum, interdisciplinary studies are conducted with the entire school community in the areas of projects, exhibitions and thesis writing as required by the MoNE and IB education programs.
You may visit our library website to access the efficient information services and resources of Koç School Libraries.
Service Hours:
Weekdays (Friday excluded): 08.00 – 16.00
Friday: 08.00 – 14.00
You may contact us via e-mail if you have any questions or anything you would like to consult.