Within the scope of the project "There will be no school without a library" initiated by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's wife Emine Erdoğan on October 26, 2021 and completed on December 31, 2021 by the Ministry of National Education in order to reduce the opportunity differences between schools, new libraries were built in 16 schools. With the construction of new libraries, the number of books in all schools began to increase. While there were 361 million 28 thousand 677 books in the libraries before the project, this number increased to 694 million 41 thousand 770 with the construction of new libraries and the enrichment of existing libraries in terms of books. MEB aims to increase the number of books in libraries to 132 million by the end of 2022. While there were 100 books per student in school libraries in Turkey before the project, this number rose to 1,89 in a short period of two months.
As of the end of 2021, Gümüşhane ranked first with 9,65 books per student. Gümüşhane was followed by Bayburt with 9,53 books and Ardahan with 8,56 books.
The ranking of the first 15 provinces with the highest rate of books per student was as follows:
- Gumushane: 9,65
- Bayburt: 9,53
- Ardahan:8,56
- Tunceli: 8,06
- Artvin: 6,44
- Kastamonu: 6,23
- Nevsehir: 6,09
- Yozgat: 5,68
- Rize: 5,49
- Trabzon: 5,46
- Erzurum: 5,37
- Sinop: 5,36
- Burdur: 5,34
- Cankiri: 5,28
- Slap: 5,11
New target, 6,6 books per student
When the target of 2022 million books is reached by the end of 100, the number of students per student in school libraries in Turkey will have increased to 6,6. Making an assessment on the subject, Minister of National Education Mahmut Özer stated that one of the areas they focused on in order to increase equality of opportunity in education was to reduce the differences in opportunities between schools and drew attention to the fact that the project "There will be no school without a library", which was carried out under the auspices of Emine Erdoğan, was completed in a short period of two months. Emphasizing that there is no school without a library, Özer said:
“With this project, the number of books in our schools has increased significantly. With the new libraries we built, the number of books in the libraries increased to 41 million 770 thousand 132. With this project, the number of books per student in the libraries in our schools rose from 1,89 to 2,76 in two months. We aim to increase the number of our books to 2022 million by 100. Thus, the number of books per student will have increased to 6,6. I congratulate all my colleagues who successfully carried out the process, our national education directors, district directors, school administrators and teachers in our 81 provinces.”
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