National Defence University

NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY

The Responsibilities of the Department to procure books, periodicals, electronic publications, audio-visual materials necessary for education and research purposes by taking opinions from the directors of unit libraries and ensure that these materials are organized systematically, to publish and distribute publications such as books, text books, supplementary text books, and journals which the Publication Commission considered to be appropriate for publication and distribution, to form a staff with sufficient number of members in order to perform the services of library and publishing house without any delay, to perform division of labour and education activities for the personnel of department and also to supervise them, to draft necessary regulations such as directives, plans and programs for carrying out the work-flow in a reliable way, to present these regulations for the approval of the Rectorate of the Turkish National University (TDNU), and to implement them, to provide in-service training for its personnel and to supervise them, to ensure that unit libraries and publishing houses in the academies and war colleges under the TNDU work in harmony and perform cooperation with the Department of Library and Documentation, to follow the technological developments, new publications, national and international resources and to ensure that these new information is to be used in the education processes within the University at the highest level, to draw up the budget of the Department in accordance with the needs of publishing houses and libraries subordinate to the TNDU and to present it to the Rectorate of the TNDU, to assume the role of controlling and approving authority within the scope of education and training aims of the University by following up policies of budget, procurement and development and to make strategic objective plan, to ensure that funds allocated from different spending items (procurement of other publications, procurement of periodicals, publishing and binding expenses, modernization of electronic software, modernization of library, modernization of publishing house) to be used properly, to determine the publishing house or library needs of subordinate vocational HE schools, academies, war colleges, and institute, to present the Rectorate of the TNDU an offer to open new ones or to close existing ones and to implement the decisions made on these issues, to keep up with the services regarding databases provided by institutions such as ANKOS (Consortium of Anadolu University Libraries) and ULAKBİM (Turkish Academic Network and Information Center) and to ensure the staff and the students of the TNDU benefit from these services, to be a member of Electronic Library System Management Group, to maintain the electronic library and to approve the publications to be uploaded to the electronic library, to perform exchange/cooperation activities with the unit libraries or with other national libraries, to attend meetings in its field of duty at national or international levels, and to ensure that its personnel has up-to-date knowledge on their areas of expertise by enabling them to attend the professional meetings at home or abroad, to keep up with the current developments in the field of librarianship and publishing, and to study the feasibility of these developments, to follow up the staff’s personnel rights (retiring, disability, registry, etc) and to provide necessary proceedings regarding the personnel rights, and to present a report regarding the works done within the education year at the end of the academic calendar.

The Responsibilities of the Department

to procure books, periodicals, electronic publications, audio-visual materials necessary for education and research purposes by taking opinions from the directors of unit libraries and ensure that these materials are organized systematically,
to publish and distribute publications such as books, text books, supplementary text books, and journals which the Publication Commission considered to be appropriate for publication and distribution,
to form a staff with sufficient number of members in order to perform the services of library and publishing house without any delay, to perform division of labour and education activities for the personnel of department and also to supervise them,
to draft necessary regulations such as directives, plans and programs for carrying out the work-flow in a reliable way, to present these regulations for the approval of the Rectorate of the Turkish National University (TDNU), and to implement them,
to provide in-service training for its personnel and to supervise them,
to ensure that unit libraries and publishing houses in the academies and war colleges under the TNDU work in harmony and perform cooperation with the Department of Library and Documentation,
to follow the technological developments, new publications, national and international resources and to ensure that these new information is to be used in the education processes within the University at the highest level,
to draw up the budget of the Department in accordance with the needs of publishing houses and libraries subordinate to the TNDU and to present it to the Rectorate of the TNDU,
to assume the role of controlling and approving authority within the scope of education and training aims of the University by following up policies of budget, procurement and development and to make strategic objective plan,
to ensure that funds allocated from different spending items (procurement of other publications, procurement of periodicals, publishing and binding expenses, modernization of electronic software, modernization of library, modernization of publishing house) to be used properly,
to determine the publishing house or library needs of subordinate vocational HE schools, academies, war colleges, and institute, to present the Rectorate of the TNDU an offer to open new ones or to close existing ones and to implement the decisions made on these issues,
to keep up with the services regarding databases provided by institutions such as ANKOS (Consortium of Anadolu University Libraries) and ULAKBİM (Turkish Academic Network and Information Center) and to ensure the staff and the students of the TNDU benefit from these services,
to be a member of Electronic Library System Management Group, to maintain the electronic library and to approve the publications to be uploaded to the electronic library,
to perform exchange/cooperation activities with the unit libraries or with other national libraries,
to attend meetings in its field of duty at national or international levels, and to ensure that its personnel has up-to-date knowledge on their areas of expertise by enabling them to attend the professional meetings at home or abroad,
to keep up with the current developments in the field of librarianship and publishing, and to study the feasibility of these developments,
to follow up the staff’s personnel rights (retiring, disability, registry, etc) and to provide necessary proceedings regarding the personnel rights, and
to present a report regarding the works done within the education year at the end of the academic calendar.