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|a "مد جسور المعرفة بين تراث قطر ومستقبلها" هي رؤية مكتبة قطر الوطنية منذ عام 2012. فهي تعكس رؤية قطر لعام 2030 وتعزيز المعرفة في الدولة وتسليط الضوء على تراثها من خلال مبني المكتبة الفريد وطرق عرض المجموعة التراثية كموقع أثري، وتعد مهمة مكتبة قطر الوطنية هي نشر المعرفة، وصقل ملكات الإبداع، وتعزيز الابتكار والحفاظ على تراث الأمة من اجل المستقبل. إنطلاقاً من دورها المنشود في مد جسور التواصل بين تراث دولة قطر ومستقبلها. وسيتحقق ذلك عندما يتم الانتهاء من بناء مكتبة قطر الوطنية بطراز القرن 21 لتقوم بمهام المكتبة الوطنية، والمكتبة البحثية والمكتبة الأكاديمية والمكتبة العامة في العصر الرقمي. وقد بدأت بالفعل المرحلة التالية لإدارة المعرفة بقطر والتي سوف تحتاج إلي جهود قوية لتحقيق كل أهداف مكتبة قطر الوطنية. وبرؤيتها ورسالتها الواضحة، سوف يكون لمكتبة قطر الوطنية تأثير فعال وهام على مجتمع المعرفة.
|b Fifty years ago, 29 December 1962, in Doha, Qatar, the Dar-Al-Kutub – Library was founded in one of the first original library building of the region. The collection based on two libraries the Doha Public Library of 1956, and the Endowment Library, from 1954. The opening collection consisted of 30.000 volumes. (Khalifa, 1992) In the beginning Dar-Al-Kutub, was responsible for school and public libraries for the first 10 years, later these functions changed to public library and national library functions. (Khalifa, 1992). The first Qatar National Bibliography was published in 1970. (Al Nassr, 1993). But only in 1982, the legal deposit law by Emir Decree No. 14 was issued, and more national library functions developed: the collection of publications from Qataris published abroad and the ISBN-Agency of Qatar in 1994. From 1972 onwards the Qatar National Library organized the Qatar Book Fair, an important cultural event for the country and the region. Over the years the national library has served its users with a wide range of collection and activities. Between 1978 and 1985 the branches developed and their libraries filled up with Arab and English books. The Women’s library, with a collection of more than 60.000 volumes introduced educational computer games for Kids and internet in a modern office building, which was changed to become a library. They developed a set of activities with handicapped students from different schools and their new knowledge management is a good example to other public library branches after their facilities are renovated and modernized. In 2012 Al Shamal branch, right in the North of Qatar, moved to a better facility and Al Khor branch started to expand and to renovate, too. In the future, also Al Wakra and Al Rayyan branches will be modernized. The National Library Dar Al Kutub based on Arabic heritage, has built a collection of more than 2000 Arabic manuscripts and published a manuscript catalogue. The library’s general acquisition is catalogued by Anglo-American Cataloging Rules with Dewey decimal classification and Library of Congress Subject Headings. Qatar National Library has developed an electronic catalogue based on these cataloging standards, even that they had no possibility to install a library system with a web OPAC. Now in cooperation with the new emerging National Library supported by Qatar Foundation the first steps to integrate this electronic catalogue into the QNL Online Public Access Catalogue have started. Soon, not only the branches but everybody will be able to access the online catalogue and people all over Qatar will be able to discover a great collection build in 50 years with more than 92000 titles and over 400000 items through the web-catalog. To serve the emerging knowledge society if Qatar, Dar-Al-Kutub trained many librarians and library workers from branch libraries as from different special libraries. Today the Qatar National Library is one of the main departments of National Council for Culture, Arts and Heritage
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