Playing is Learning
Libraries at AUB
October 11th, 2016
| Ads | ||
|
Play the Challenge
|
||
|
A New Word is Coined A new Character is revealed A new Game is Afoot |
An Edutainment Adventure Based on Three Rounds of Investigations
|
   |
|
Welcome to the World of PROFESsee™by seeCOSM™ PROFESsee™ is my title. I am the perpetual learner, in pursuit of knowledge, wisdom and truth. I derived my name from professor |
 |
|
|
Even before the school ever stood, the Syrian mission had a library of its own (such bookworms!). In a letter dated November 1, 1864, to Dr. Daniel Bliss, David Stuart Dodge had indicated he had sent an encyclopedia to the library. It is no wonder then, that the school had a library right from inception –showing that the library wasn’t an afterthought but a part of the kind of education the founders had in mind. Since the start, the drive, the fundraisings and addition of books and publications means AUB libraries have grown from just 2000 items and one staff to over half of a million items and seven professional librarians. Making AUB libraries well equipped to serve the needs of students and faculties alike. In AUB, there are two main libraries; one, the University Libraries and the other, the Saab Medical Library. The University Libraries is inclusive of the Nami Jafet Memorial Library and its sub-branches – Engineering and Architecture, and the Science and Agriculture Library. The Saab Medical Library was the first library to become stand-alone after it was moved for good into the Van Dyck Hall in 1925; after being brought back and forth (it must have been dizzy) between the medical department’s building, and the main library building. The Saab Medical library primarily caters for the Medical Center, the Rafiq Hariri School of Nursing, the Faculty of Health Sciences, the AUB Faculty of Medicine and the needs of the community on campus. Despite having e-classrooms, computer labs, students and faculties can also access most of the library resources remotely (Yes please…Can I write my exams remotely too?) or in person. The Nami Jafet Library was moved to the Nami Jafet memorial building in 1952 which was necessitated because of the new graduate studies that had started, and the continuous expansion of the school. In 1957, the building as it was, couldn’t handle the strain, and another expansion became necessary. This expansion happened two years afterward, with 700 reading spaces added, and a capacity to hold 400,000 volumes. Till today, the libraries of the American University of Beirut are the most important libraries in Lebanon, serving as spearhead (like a weapon?) and guide for other universities. The civil wars also played a major role in positioning the university as the go-to library for the country and authors due to the libraries’ possession of the only copies of important works. Can you Locate the AUB Libraries? Image courtesy of: http://aub.edu.lb.libguides.com/c.php?g=431715 |
||
Latest News / Events
E-mail [email protected]
The Professee™ Newsletter Beta
http://www.seecosm.com/
http://www.seecosm.com/