İsmail Erünsal obtained his PhD from Edinburgh University in 1977. He taught at Istanbul University’s Department of Library Sciences, and later chaired the Department of Archival Studies of Marmara University from 1990 to 2006. Professor Erünsal has extensively published on the history of libraries, booksellers, and book culture in the Islamic world. Some of Dr. Erünsal’s extensive publications on Ottoman library system and Ottoman libraries are: A Brief Survey of the Development of Turkish Library Catalogues, Libri 51, no. 1 (2001): 1–7; The Catalogue of Bâyezid II’s Palace Library, Kütüphanecilik Dergisi, Belge Bilgi Kütüphâne Araştırmaları 3 (1992): 55–66; Catalogues and Cataloguing in the Ottoman Libraries, Libri 37, no. 4 (1987): 333–349; The Establishment and Maintenance of Collections in the Ottoman Libraries: 1400–1839, Libri 39, no. 1 (1989): 1–17; Ottoman Foundation Libraries in the Age of Reform: The Final Period, Libri 54, no. 1, (2004): 247–255; Osmanlı vakıf kütüphaneleri: Tarihi gelişimî ve organizasyonu, Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 2008; Ottoman Libraries: A Brief Survey of their Development and System of Lending, Libri 34, no. 1 (1984): 65–76; A Survey of the History, Development and Organization of Ottoman Foundation Libraries, Turkish Sources 74. Cambridge, Mass.: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 2008.

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