Information Technologies Department is responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining the automated information technologies within the library, thus playing a crucial support role for the other library departments.

Please call (+90.312)210 27 96 or send an e-mail for you questions.

 ODTU library aims to support the academic studies at the university, to provide the information needs of academic/administrative staff and students, to collaborate with the other national/universal institutions.

Below are the basic rules and the responsibilities of the department. 

-          To update the website of the library,

-          To deliver some important announcements needed to be known by users,

-          To manage the content in the social media sites which the library is in,

-          To plan the library tours and to advertise the library on ODTU promotion days,

-          To provide advertisement brochures and visual materials

-          To accept the internship applications and programs

-          To lead inter library loans and inter institutions loans

You can ask your questions via the phone number (+90.312)210 71 88 and/or send an e-mail.

ODTU library aims to support the academic studies at the university, to provide the information needs of academic/administrative staff and students, to collaborate with the other national/universal institutions.

Below are the basic rules and the responsibilities of the department. 

Access to the Information: The department is responsible of organizing the halls, collecting to table tops, putting in books correctly and properly placing for library users to reach the books easily.

Store Books: The department is responsible for providing the books that the users need. Please click to get more information.

Lost Books: The books which are in the collection but cannot be found by the users are searched by a handheld terminal and the users are informed.

Volume processing: To define the physically damaged books and to make them usable after doing necessary processes.

Rare Collections: To prepare an atmosphere to use the rare collection.

Information: To help the users find the books they look for and answer their questions.

Besides, to answer questions from readers, identifying books which are worn or damaged for the necessary procedures ensure the performance, make necessary steps to books which cannot be found on the shelves and bring books from stacks when requests are comes.

Please call (+90 312) 210 27 87 ( for head of department) or send an e-mail for your questions.

The Library aims to support University's academic programs, meet the information needs of its academic, administrative staff and students, and cooperate with the other institutions at the national and international level.

In accordance with this aim, the Acquisitions & Cataloguing Department is responsible for collection development and management.

Cataloging-Classification: To carry out the cataloging and classification of printed books, audio-visual sources, theses and electronic books provided by purchasing or donating to the library.

Technical Operations: Complete the remaining operations of the information sources that have been cataloged before leaving the shelves. Send an e-mail to the user that the source of the information resource is included in the collection.

New Arrivals Service (New Arrivals)

Donation Books: To carry out the selection, evaluation and cataloging of information resources donated by individual institutions in line with the principles of collection development.

Electronic Books: Loading MARC records of e-books subscribed and / or purchased into the library automation system.

Book Awards: In line with the criteria determined by the ODTU Rectorate; Publishing awards, preparing the list of books to be used for the lecturers' upgrade and assignment procedures, performing the checks from the lists announced by the Rectorate by applications and calculating amount of the reward to be given to the book made by the ODTU Development Foundation.

Lost Book Control: To provide print / price controls on the market of books lost by the user and to carry out necessary operations on lost and / or newly provided books.

Thesis Submission: To check and submit the electronic and printed copies of Master and PhD thesis prepared and approved in ODTU.

Information: Responsible for consultation / informational inquiries within the Provisioning and Cataloging Unit duties and responsibilities.

Please send an e-mail or call (+90.312) 210 27 90 / (+90.312) 210 27 83 for your questions about the Library Catalog, acquisitions, and cataloging.

The library aims to support the academic programs of the University, to meet the information needs of the academic and administrative staff, and students, to cooperate with other institutions at national and international level as well.

In this regard, the basic duties and responsibilities of the Chattels Registration Department are stated below

• To carry out the registration and transactions procedures in accordance with the Portable Goods Regulation.
• To take delivery of examined and accepted chattels obtained from expenditure unit by counting, weighing, measuring them according to their type and quality and to keep chattels which are not used directly or opened to the usage in the responsible warehouses under an organized and classified condition.
• To deliver chattels considered to be appropriate for usage to the related department.
• To provide or take necessary precautions to protect the chattels against fire, wetting, deterioration, being stolen and similar dangers.
• To make warehouse counting and inventory control.
• To check chattels which are in use at the place where they are in use and count them or get them counted.
• To arrange shipment documents of goods and materials to be shipped from the warehouse.
• To do the work which are given by the spending authority or other authorities.

The Library aims to support the academic programs of the University, meet the information needs of academic and administrative staff and students, and cooperate with other institutions at national and international levels.

In this context, the main duties and responsibilities of the Open Access and Institutional Archive Department are as follows:

Digital Collection: It aims to store and provide access to audio visual materials of METU in METU Library Digital collection in accordance with copyrights.

Open Access: Within the Open Access and Institutional Archive (OAIA) system, the aim is to compile the scientific and intellectual knowledge produced by the university and its students, to ensure the continuity of access and to share it with the large masses.

The unit is located on the ground floor of the Library in the Reserve Department.

If you have any questions, please call (+90.312) 210 71 88 or you can contact us by e-mail.