Ertugrul Cimen

Ertuğrul Çimen has a BS from Hacettepe University Faculty of Literature, Librarianship Department, and an MA from Kadir Has University, Social Sciences Institute, Finance, and Banking Program. His current position is the library director of MEF University. 

His professional interests are academic library management, library consortia, license agreements for e-resources, library collaboration, resource sharing, document delivery, lifelong learning, and staff exchange programs for librarians.

He has held active roles in NGOs and professional organizations at both national and international levels. Ertuğrul Çimen currently serves as the Chair of the IFLA Regional Council and is a Member of the IFLA Governing Board. He is an editorial board member of the Information Discovery and Delivery Journal (Emerald Publishing). 

In the past, he served as: President of the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS), Executive Board Member of the Turkish Librarians Association (TLA), Information Coordinator and Secretary of the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Standing Committee, Information Coordinator of the IFLA Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) Advisory Board, Chair of the IFLA Europe Regional Division Committee, and a Member of the IFLA Regional Council, Coordinator of the Sustainable Libraries Standing Committee of the University and Research Library Association (UNAK).

He has published articles, presentations, book chapters, and research papers in different languages, such as English, Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, and Turkish.