Kebikeç Seminars

Set out with questions such as “How are book and library efforts carried out in Türkiye?” and “How can the challenges facing the profession be addressed?”, Kebikeç Seminar series aim to provide a panorama of contemporary perspectives on librarianship. The series features insights into library traditions and models in Türkiye and around the world, alongside personal reflections on diverse perspectives on the book and different approaches to research.

Since its launch in 2017, the Kebikeç Seminars have hosted a total of 18 seminars, including four held online. More than 30 speakers have participated in the series, reaching an audience of nearly 4,000 attendees.

What is Kebikeç?

The belief that enchanted objects brings special powers to those people who carry them and help to protect them from trouble when necessary has also been reflected our books. One of these enchantments is “Yâ Hâfız Yâ Kebikeç”. The “Yâ Kebikeç” seal, which we come across on the cover or the first page of many manuscripts was used as a type of enchantment on the cover of the book to protect the books from insects and moths. According to this belief, it is believed that Kebikeç is a legendary angel or a jinn that protects books from all kinds of insects, and when the insects are threatened with Kebikeç as written on the seal with the sentences “O worm, this book does not belong to you, do not damage someone else’s property!”, the book worms who are scared of that angel or the jinn would not approach the book as soon as they see the name of their master on the book saying that “this book is protected by our master”.

KEBİKEÇ SEMINARS
	Subject	Panelist	Date
1.Seminar	Rare Works and Cataloging of Rare Works	Hüseyin Türkmen	28.09.2017
2.Seminar	Second Hand Book Trade and Second Hand Book Sellers	Emin Nedret İşli	25.10.2017
3.Seminar	Library Services in Local Governments: Examples from World Libraries	Berrin Balkaş Yılmaz-Selçuk Aydın	27.11.2017
4. Seminar	Memories of Books and Libraries	Turgut Kut	27.12.2017
5. Seminar	Paper Restoration and Application Examples	Nergis Ulu	28.02.2018
6. Seminar	Inscriptions and Tombstone Inscriptions	Süleyman Berk	23.03.2018
7. Seminar	University and Research Libraries in Turkey	Pervin Bezirci-İsmet Mazlumoğlu-Neslihan Sandal	25.10.2018
8. Seminar	Libraries of Municipalities in Turkey	Ramazan Minder-Arzu Kuzgun-Erkan Küp	22.11.2018
9. Seminar	Children’s Libraries in Turkey	Asiye Kakırman Yıldız, Asuman Nesibe Gök ve Ebru Bostancı	27.12.2018
10. Seminar	Libraries of Special Interest in Turkey	Özlem Gürkan ve Ertaç Nebioğlu	17.01.2019
11. Seminar	School Libraries in Turkey	Sevgi Arıoğlu, Şule Yılmaz ve Hanife Yükcü	21.02.2019
12. Seminar	Libraries of Manuscripts and Rare Books in Turkey	Menderes Velioğlu, Niyazi Ünver	14.03.2019
13. Seminar	“University Libraries in Turkey” and “Manuscript and Rare Books Libraries in Turkey”	Güssün Güneş-Ertuğrul Çimen – Sami Çukadar -Zeynep Atbaş-Muaz Ayhan Işık	8.01.2020
14. Seminar	“Special Interest and Research Libraries in Turkey” and “Libraries of Municipalities in Turkey”	Furkan Sevim-Mehdi Yenidoğan-Sanem Yardımcı-Nesrin Duran-Hêlin İlçek-Ayşe Sofioğlu	27.02.2020
15. Online Seminar	University Libraries in Turkey	Emine Gür, Tuna Can ve Dr. Ebru Kaya	22.04.2020
16. Online Seminar	Public Libraries in Turkey	Ahmet Aldemir	29.04.2020
17. Online Seminar	Special Interest and Research Libraries in Turkey	Lorans Tanatar Baruh Neşecan Uysal	6.05.2020
18. Online Seminar	Presidential National Library	Ayhan Tuğlu	14.05.2020