Past Events

Bring your needles and yarn or borrow ours and join this casual gathering. Don't forget to browse our many knitting and crochet books to find your next project while you are here.

Learn the basics of citation management through RefWorks and ZOTERO. The session will cover how to collect references from various online databases, how to save and manage them on both platforms, how to cite references automatically in a Word document, and how to produce extensive bibliographies in no time. This session is geared towards researchers and university students.

A casual gathering of knitters around Qatar at QNL that will give participants a chance to share their knitting skills together in a friendly atmosphere.

Are you interested in finding out how to convert your media from analog to digital? For instance, cassette tape to MP3, VHS to digital, etc. Come and learn how these media can be easily converted!

Just like meditation, coloring allows us to switch off our brains from other thoughts and focus only on the moment, helping to reduce anxiety, create focus or bring about more mindfulness. Join QNL for one of our popular coloring sessions for adults. We will provide patterns and markers. Come for an hour or stay the whole time, this will be an open session for you to relax and color your cares away.

Qatar National Library (QNL) is pleased to invite all paper and book conservators from libraries, cultural institutions and museums in Qatar and the Arab world to this 3-day hands-on training, conducted by Dr. Antonino Cosentino, Cultural Heritage Science Open Source: www.chsopensource.org

In this introductory workshop, we will learn how to design interactive presentations using the online platform Prezi. It will cover effective presentation design elements and navigation within the platform.

Describe and execute proper operation of a digital camera. Learn about shutter speeds, aperture settings, ISO Settings, light, exposure and camera angles to take great photos. Bring your own camera.

Have you ever read a story for your little child? Do you want to attract him/her to books? Come and join us with your little child in Games and Tales for Toddlers event where we play fun games and narrate lovely stories.

Did you know that you can borrow digital comics and magazines from QNL? Bring your library membership card and your iOS or Android device and we'll show you how!