The Legacy of Ancient Libraries to the Middle Ages: The Library of Alexandria and the Origin of Knowledge Brief Description - Sponsored by SIG-LIB

He likes to write while reading. Researching while writing. He likes to learn while researching. This cycle keeps the love of sharing what they have learned alive in them. He likes to touch books. The book has always been his only companion that makes him feel the world at his fingertips. He established very deep bonds with books. Loneliness, strangeness, difficulty, unknownness disappeared at every door opened with a book. Once she entered that door, she decided to continue on the path with her heart, not knowing that this path would be a part of her life. This is how she started university. Perhaps because she wanted everyone to wear this beauty, she chose her profession as a librarian. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography (DTCF), Department of Librarianship. It should have been a natural process for every graduate librarian to work as a librarian in his/her country. Therefore, she wanted to complete her undergraduate studies with a thesis on manpower planning. Her graduation thesis was awarded the Emily Dean Prize for the best undergraduate thesis in 1989. Özlemi was embraced by the desire to open up to the outside world. In 1993, she received a visiting scholarship from the British Council. Before being selected as the first assistant in the Department of Documentation and Information in the Department of Librarianship at Ankara University DTCF, she worked in different departments of libraries such as UNICEF, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and Middle East Technical University Libraries. She always loved working together with her peers and teamwork. With this synergy, she served as the vice president of the Turkish Librarians Association between 1997 and 1999. After leaving the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, he wanted to continue his profession with an academic identity. When she learned that information can be measured, she preferred to study bibliometrics because she did not know how to do it. She completed the first doctoral study on bibliometrics in the field of librarianship in Turkey. For Özlem, learning about librarianship and information science is an exciting adventure. Her desire to open up to the outside world had turned into an ideal. After her PhD, she received a scholarship from St. John's University in New York State, USA, where she was appointed as a graduate assistant and received her second master's degree in LIS (MLIS) in 2004. During her academic studies, she had projects to develop web resources for the Library of the same University. She represented our University by participating in congresses and conferences in different European countries in the fields of both Information and Document Management. In addition to various research and social responsibility projects, he has authored and edited books and articles. He still continues his academic studies as a professor at Ankara University. Learning with his students is at the forefront of his work. Bibliometrics is one of the topics he continues to work on for learning. Other topics he works on are social epistemology, information resources and management, open access and open access systems, thesaurus and metadata development. His professional principles are to continue on the path he has embarked on, to move forward and not to deviate from this path.