Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University

Library and Documentation Department

Donation Publication Policy and Rules

• Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University Library and Documentation Department accepts donations in order to support education and training at the university, to contribute to research and to develop the library collection in line with the cultural needs of users.
• Persons and institutions that wish to donate must forward the list containing the information of donation publications to the Department in advance. The "excel format" template file on the "Donation Publication Form" tab on the library website should be used for the list.
• The prepared donation publication list should be sent to “kutdokdb@ohu.edu.tr“ by e-mail before being sent to the library. After checking the eligibility of the donated publication list to the library collection, the edited version of the list of publications that can be accepted as donations is sent to the donor by e-mail.
• Publications that are not listed are not accepted as donations.
• Those who are out of date except for the manuscript and rare printed work in the collection to be donated are not accepted.
• Publications that are deemed to be suitable for the library collection by the Collection Development Department are added to the collection after technical procedures. A letter of thanks / e-mail is sent to the donor or institution on behalf of Niğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi. For this reason, the donors of the publication should indicate their name, surname and contact information in the field in the last section of the list.
• Donated publications are not accepted if they are available in the library collection (excluding reserve collection publications).
• The library Management has the right to decide on which conditions and according to which rules the donated publications will be presented to the users.
• In order for periodicals to be accepted as donations, the beginning or continuation of the collection must be in the library.
• Magazine, encyclopedia etc. multi-volume works are accepted if they form skin integrity.
• The library management can apply to private or legal persons to donate collections.
• The Department has the right to return publications that it accepts as donations or to donate them to another library if it deems appropriate.
• Photocopy publications, publications in poor physical condition and periodicals that cannot be maintained are not accepted as donations.

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