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The Qatar National Library (QNL) will host a public seminar on “New Trends in the Global Library Environment” on October 13 at the Student Centre of the Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU).
The event is part of its schedule of monthly programmes designed to support the public service sector in Qatar and spread knowledge throughout the community.
The seminar will be presented by Eric van Lubeek, vice-president of the Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC) for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia.
The objective is to familiarise participants with the OCLC, established in 1967 as a worldwide library co-operative.
Additionally, the QNL will provide a free training session on selected children’s and teenagers’ book databases, where participants will be introduced to the QNL’s online resources and trained on how to successfully use them with younger readers.
It will be held today from 9am to 3pm at the HBKU Student Centre.
The popular monthly Research Skills Workshop returns in October to offer free research skills for a wide range of disciplines and subject areas.
The event on October 12 is from 9am to 3.30pm at the HBKU Student Centre.
The QNL will also hold its monthly book discussion on October 19 with the book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg.
This month, the QNL’s online resource training workshop, to take place on October 19, tackles the subject of Qatar Humanities with hands-on training on selected databases that include Cengage Collection, JSTOR, Cambridge Core, OneClickDigital, OverDrive. and Zinio.
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