Samsung Digital Library Opens Inside National Library of Turkey

From Samsung Turkey:

[On Tuesday,] Samsung Electronics Turkey [opened] of the Samsung Digital Library, which offers free digital access to the valuable works retained in the archive of the National Library of Turkey, as well as contemporary e-publications. This project was realized in cooperation with the National Library with a total investment of 500,000 USD.
 
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Visitors to the Samsung Digital Library, which is located within the National Library, can access the following works freely:

• 27,000 volumes of handwritten work in Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Arabic,
• Periodical publications day by day from Ottoman era to the Republic,
• Periodicals and more than 2 million newspapers published since 1928,
• Almost 60,000 Ottoman newspapers,
• Paintings,
• French and English publications in the Turkish Hearth Collection,
• Karagöz & Hacivat archives,
• Film posters,
• Maps, notes, stamps,
• Political posters,
• More than 5,000 phonograph records.

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