This is what I found on the site of QNL - main points . 1 . by appointment only 2 . only on week days 3 . more details published soon
Great News! We are reopening. We are delighted to welcome you back to the Library building starting 30 May 2021. Visits to the Library are currently by appointment only. We will be open from Sunday to Thursday, 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM; the Library will be closed on Friday and Saturday. A link to the reopening measures and visit booking/book request form will be published here soon. Looking forward to welcoming you at the Library!
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Sunday, May 23, 2021
Monday, April 22, 2019
Happy World Book Day - UNESCO
Books are both object and idea.— UNESCO (@UNESCO) April 17, 2019
They voice the mind of an author & find meaning in the imagination of readers.
Coming up on 23 April, #WorldBookDay📚
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Thursday, December 28, 2017
The library of my childhood
It was a dark November 🍂 afternoon when I was walking with my mom somewhere at our large compound . Passing near the cultural center I saw a lots of books 📖 and people inside .
- What is this place ? - I asked
- The library - my mother answered . For a very small fee one can read the books there or even can take them home !
- Really ? - I asked happily 😊
- Yes - and even children can be a member . But now it is too late . We are about to move 🚚 to another town . Once settled I will take you
to their library .I promise .
It was a real WOW feeling just to learn about the existence of such facility .( I could compare it to the moment when I learned to ride my bike 🚲.) But even to be a member ! It was far beyond all my expectations !
I was seven and half and I already read all our books . Then the neighbours' books . Then I was starving and ready to devour any book I come across .I was waiting for my summer holiday visiting cousins and I was planning to read their books . Or a birthday , name day or something similar .
The existence of the library opened a new perspective to my life ☼. I praised in myself the one who invented it .I just wished to have something similar for toys and games . But my mom informed me that facility does not exists .
Moving to another town was a real cultural shock . The landscape , the people were so different .☹ But my mom kept her promise and took me to the library . That was a wonderful place ☺.It was in the town center in an old historical building . Downstairs children's library - upstairs library for the big ones .
We had a really nice sized collection . Old books were well maintained not discarded . I read a lot .
As a result I became a ✍ good writer .Essay writing was always an easy job for me . Walking home from school the sentences ,ideas formed by themselves in my mind . I just had to write them down when arriving home .
My very best friend whom I met at age 12 was also a bookworm . We visited the library together , would read at home cracking apples . Discussing the stories after .One year later we found no books to read downstairs we read them all . So we were allowed to be a member of the library upstairs. But often returned to the kids section for its special atmosphere .
And the kids library just improved year after year . The new librarians were not only advising kids about what to read but they were ready to chat with them . They could tell them about their problems , they helped them with their home works .They provided them a shelter for the afternoons if conditions at their homes were not favorable . They organized competitions , they made some puppets and performed operas with them using their audio collection . Those librarians were real fairies .
We were very lucky .
When visiting cities later in my life I noticed that those city libraries were quite different .So impersonal and less inviting than our town's libraries .
Later it was declining - the libraries did not get much money to buy new books . It was quite sad . Especially to learn how little money our "fairies" made . They retired with very small pension . The new librarians were not similar to them . But the Internet attracted a lots of kids who could not afford it .
Yeah - when I grew up the Internet came and I "owned" whole libraries in my room . That was a real wow feeling but this is another story .
P.S. similar facility for toys and games opened when I was in my twenties - my kids visited it and liked it very much ...
- What is this place ? - I asked
- The library - my mother answered . For a very small fee one can read the books there or even can take them home !
- Really ? - I asked happily 😊
- Yes - and even children can be a member . But now it is too late . We are about to move 🚚 to another town . Once settled I will take you
to their library .I promise .
It was a real WOW feeling just to learn about the existence of such facility .( I could compare it to the moment when I learned to ride my bike 🚲.) But even to be a member ! It was far beyond all my expectations !
I was seven and half and I already read all our books . Then the neighbours' books . Then I was starving and ready to devour any book I come across .I was waiting for my summer holiday visiting cousins and I was planning to read their books . Or a birthday , name day or something similar .
The existence of the library opened a new perspective to my life ☼. I praised in myself the one who invented it .I just wished to have something similar for toys and games . But my mom informed me that facility does not exists .
Moving to another town was a real cultural shock . The landscape , the people were so different .☹ But my mom kept her promise and took me to the library . That was a wonderful place ☺.It was in the town center in an old historical building . Downstairs children's library - upstairs library for the big ones .
We had a really nice sized collection . Old books were well maintained not discarded . I read a lot .
As a result I became a ✍ good writer .Essay writing was always an easy job for me . Walking home from school the sentences ,ideas formed by themselves in my mind . I just had to write them down when arriving home .
My very best friend whom I met at age 12 was also a bookworm . We visited the library together , would read at home cracking apples . Discussing the stories after .One year later we found no books to read downstairs we read them all . So we were allowed to be a member of the library upstairs. But often returned to the kids section for its special atmosphere .
And the kids library just improved year after year . The new librarians were not only advising kids about what to read but they were ready to chat with them . They could tell them about their problems , they helped them with their home works .They provided them a shelter for the afternoons if conditions at their homes were not favorable . They organized competitions , they made some puppets and performed operas with them using their audio collection . Those librarians were real fairies .
We were very lucky .
When visiting cities later in my life I noticed that those city libraries were quite different .So impersonal and less inviting than our town's libraries .
Later it was declining - the libraries did not get much money to buy new books . It was quite sad . Especially to learn how little money our "fairies" made . They retired with very small pension . The new librarians were not similar to them . But the Internet attracted a lots of kids who could not afford it .
Yeah - when I grew up the Internet came and I "owned" whole libraries in my room . That was a real wow feeling but this is another story .
P.S. similar facility for toys and games opened when I was in my twenties - my kids visited it and liked it very much ...
Tuesday, November 07, 2017
Qatar National Library Opens Today
Good to know : - free
membership to anyone with a Qatari ID
- most books are in Arabic& English but books written in 15 other languages
are also available
- Opening hours: Saturday to Thursday - from 8am to 8pm,
Fridays - from 4pm to 8pm
- dedicated area for teens / children
- computer labs, a writing centre ,
creative tools such as 3D printers and musical
instruments are also available
- cafe , restaurant
apply for membership here : www.qnl.qa
- special need visitors can fully access the facility
- the building 's design by
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Katara Gallery - give or take used books
رواق #كتارا للكتب المستعملة— كتارا | Katara (@kataraqatar) September 17, 2017
لنساهم جميعًا في نشر ثقافة #القراءة
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Monday, November 30, 2015
Monday, January 05, 2015
25th Doha International Book Fair
When ; on Wednesday until January 17
Where :Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC)
What to expect :
432 publishing houses
from 29 countries
12,000 Arabic titles
2,500 foreign titles
art exhibition,
cultural and children activities
a play titled “Saqr Quraish"
guest of honour this year is Brazil
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