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Franklin Book Program Collection at the Library of Congress

Turkish Franklin Books

Please Note: Links to titles on this page will retrieve fuller bibliographic information from the Library of Congress Online Catalog.

Franklin Book Programs, Inc., a private non-profit corporation, was established in 1952 and continued until 1978 as a joint-venture between the American Library Association's International Relations Committee and publishers from the American Book Publishers Council Foreign Trade Committee. The expressed purpose of the initiative was to "assist developing countries in the creation, production, distribution, and use of books and other educational materials" ("Gift Aids Center For the Book," News from the Library of Congress Press Release, January 10, 1979). The program involved approximately fifteen countries and as many languages. Over the course of more than two decades, Franklin Book Programs helped facilitate the publication of approximately 3,000 titles in languages such as Arabic, Armenian, Bangla, Chinese, English, Hausa, Igbo, Indonesian, Malay, Persian, Pushtu, Urdu, and Yoruba.

According to the original lists provided to the Library of Congress at the time of acquisition, 26 books were translated into Turkish between 1953 and 1959.

All Turkish materials including the items listed here may be accessed in the African and Middle Eastern Reading Room.

Book # ALA-LC Romanized Title Original English Title Publication City Year
T-1 Çocuk ve gençte duygusal problemler. Emotional problems of growing up Istanbul 1954
T-2 Psikoloji ve yeni eğ̕itim Psychology and the new education Ankara 1959
T-3 Psikoloji. İnsan intibakının esasları Psychology Istanbul 1954-
T-4 İlkokulda okuma öğretimi Teaching of reading in the elementary school Istanbul 1956-1958
T-5 İlmin ilerleyişi ve sağduyu Science and common sense Istanbul [195-]
T-6 Âmme idaresi Public administration Ankara 1954 [c1953]
T-7 Âmme idaresine giriș Introduction to the study of public administration Ankara 1957
T-8 Modern kolloidler : büyük moleküllerin ve küçük partiküllerin fizikokimyasına giriş Modern colloids Istanbul 1956