Qatar's Education City's university libraries: patrons, collections, and services

Abstract

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to describe Qatar's Education City's six university libraries, their international patrons, collections, and services. Design/methodology/approach -The paper provides analysis of the data provided by various parties related to patrons, collections and services of the six university libraries in Qatar's Education during the calendar year of 2009. Findings -Education City's six branch libraries successfully support the needs of their patrons' curriculum and research needs especially in the e-resources. Originality/value -This research provides in-depth information for the Qatar Foundation, university and library administrators of main and branch campuses related to future e-licensing, collections acquisitions, and staffing.

Imported Expertise in World-class Knowledge Infrastructures: The Problematic Development of Knowledge Cities in the Gulf Region

“…They are able to assist library users hereafter and to teach them MS Office Tools, library and IT basics like student folders, and library resources (Ritchie & Ray, 2008). Within the scope of e-resources, Education City's university libraries play a significant role: The number of accessible e-books, e-journals, and online databases is extremely high and the computer literacy, based on the students' specialized scientific education, allows the students to use the resources 24/7 (Gyeszly, 2010).…”

“…There on the outskirts mostly international worldclass universities are clustered on a large campus (Davis, 2010). Major American and European university branch campuses are partnered and established in this area (Gyeszly, 2010), whereby graduates' qualifications are not equivalent to their respective American and European institutions (Interview partner DO1).…”