She received her BSc (2001), MSc (2004), and PhD (2010) degrees from Hacettepe University Department of Information Management. In 2011, she was a post-doctoral fellow at University College London’s (UK) Department of Information Studies, where she examined social and cultural inclusion of Turkish speaking communities and multicultural public library services. Her areas of specialization include cultural policy and libraries, cultural heritage and digitization, LIS services and multicultural populations, LIS education, and the internationalization of LIS higher education.