Library News and Current Events:
	In celebrating "Jerusalem The Cultural Capital 2009". The Main Library has set up, many events and activities for three days. These included a book fair, a symposium on Jerusalem, and a workshop on the Emerald electronic database. – Book Fair: It lasted for three days from 5/5/2009 until 7/5/2009.Nine publishers participated in it, and was attended by hundreds of students, teachers,librarians and visitors. Book Fair Pictures -A Symposium on the city of Jerusalem: The Library invited both Dr. Samih Hamouda, who delivered a lecture on: "Jerusalem between the Islamic civilized model and the Zionist model," The lecture by Dr. Samih Shabib was on:" On which Jerusalem we are talking?" During the symposium the library honored some Friends of the Library, teachers and students those are: Dr. Mohsen Youssef, Dr. Hussein Rimawi, Dr. Wasfi al-Kafri, the students are Dalal Mohammed Hajjeer , Hassan Abdel-Moneim Halaiqa and Hiba Jasser Asfur. Also three other students who work in the library were honored; they are: Rana Jamal Abu-Shareefeh, Hala Mashal Al-Barghouti, and Samer Jamal Hassan. Symposium Pictures -A Workshop on Emerald Electronic database: held on 6/5/2009 and delivered by two delegates from the Emerald Company, Mr. Eric Broug and Miss. Katy Oddy. Many librarians and interested people from within the university, and other universities attended this workshop, and were invited to a working lunch. The second part of the workshop was a live training on using the database for research. Workshop Pictures