Past Events

A key factor to supporting your young children’s speech and language development is to surround them with a language-rich environment by becoming a good speech model yourself! In this session by the speech and language pathologist Ruba Dababat from The Learning Center at Qatar Foundation, you will learn some simple strategies that will transform the way you interact with your children for optimum language growth and development.

Join our Virtual Knitting and Crochet Meetup to share experiences, information and more. Everyone is welcome, including beginners and those who want to learn. Grab your yarn and needles and let’s chat! 

Did you know that chess improves memory, problem-solving, and IQ? It's also a wonderful way to improve focus, flex those creative muscles, and most importantly, kids have fun playing.

Open Access Week, a global event now in its eleventh year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of open access, share what they’ve learned with colleagues and help inspire wider participation to make open access a new norm in scholarship and research. The Library has a full week of events planned to highlight how open access can help researchers in Qatar.

Join us to discover and explore the Library's various online resources for middle and high school students, including research tools, ebooks, audiobooks and periodicals.

Las Cumbres Observatory is a unique network of robotic telescopes used for scientific and educational projects by thousands of people around the world. In this workshop, we will talk about some of the scientific discoveries that have come from the observatory, including the detection of the first-ever kilonova astronomical event.

Are you a new Library member or just haven’t visited us in a while? Join us for an introductory session about Library membership. You’ll learn about your benefits and responsibilities as a member, get information about our borrowing policies and how to use our self-borrowing stations, and learn how to find books and other resources in our collections. Sign up and start getting the most out of your membership! 

Each country has its own cuisine that reflects its traditions and social and cultural influences, so every country has its own national dishes. Join us for a cooking demonstration on Instagram Live with Rasha Isbeetan, who will show you how to make a special coffee dessert. We welcome everyone, including beginners and interested chefs, and please feel free to browse our cooking ebooks, such as classic home dessert and dessert station books.

This panel discussion will explore the topic of a sustainable and successful open access future in Qatar and the region. The panel discussion is part of the Library’s Open Access Week program.

In this online competition, young adults ages 12 to 18 will make creative GIFs related to the Library's digitized distinctive collections.