Past Events

In this program, Library specialists will present a lecture on scientific research and its procedures, including selecting a research problem and designing a research plan. They will also provide an overview of research samples and measurement tools such as questionnaires and observations. This program is an opportunity for anyone who wants to learn the basics of research and write a research paper in Arabic.

In this month's meeting of the English Fiction Book Club, we will discuss The Magicians, by Lev Grossman. In this coming-of-age fantasy novel, young sorcerer Quentin Coldwater discovers that even magic is subject to the desires and often dark emotions of people. Copies of the book will be available at the User Services Desk.

The Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) was created in response to threats to cultural heritage from political violence and unrest in the Middle East and North Africa. The DLME quickly evolved and today is an open-source platform that ensures that copies of objects are not just preserved, but also accessible to the global community, facilitating research and learning while also helping to fight trafficking of cultural heritage items by centralizing metadata and provenance of hundreds of thousands of digital assets. For centuries, Qatar has been a crossroads between Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Far East, and as such, its heritage items trace global social, economic, scientific and religious development. Qatar National Library is a founding member of the DLME, and is helping to fulfill the DLME’s mission through the digitization of its extensive Heritage Library collection. The DLME embodies the state-of-the-art in open digital library innovation and, with the support of institutions such as the Library, has the potential to be one of the most valuable and rich heritage portals globally.

Bookshare is an online database for people with print disabilities. It provides audiobooks, read-along books, DAISY talking books, and braille and large-font books. You can customize your reading experience with ebooks in formats that work according to your needs. This event will help you find resources on Bookshare and register for membership

Join us for storytime every Monday at the Children's Library. In October, we will read stories about space.

The Library is hosting a series of events to mark International Open Access Week 2019. Please register for individual events below.

The theme of this year’s International Open Access Week is “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge,” which aims to explore the question of how inclusive open access and open knowledge are. Speakers will discuss the benefits of open access to Qatar's research ecosystem. Attendees will also be invited to share their thoughts on how we can collaborate with national and international stakeholders to open up access to our scientific and cultural heritage.

Join us for a screening of the award-winning 2017 documentary The Farthest: Voyager in Space. The movie follows people and events around the Voyager mission, which is the first human-made object to leave our Solar System and enter deep space.

Struggling to think of a dissertation topic? Hitting a dead end with your research methodology? Emotionally and mentally drained because you can’t find the information you need for your research?Postgraduate work is tough, but with a little help from your fellow PhD students, you can survive it. Our informal postgraduate peer support network (P2SN) for aspiring and current postgraduate students is an opportunity to exchange information and knowledge, share expertise, and provide each other intellectual and emotional support.

Japanese-born artist Koichi Yamamoto presents two lectures about his work, which merges traditional and contemporary approaches to printmaking and creates innovative approaches to the language of the art. It is his exploration and mastery of the complex process of engraving that raises his art to an extraordinary level in printmaking. Yamamoto will share his ideas and motivation, as well as how locations and situations influenced his work. Looking back his 30 years of print work, he will summarize evolution of format, method and learning processes. The master printmaker, internationally known for his complex engravings, will also talk about his recent focus on functional forms and intaglio printed kite art at Qatar National Library.