Thursday, May 7, 2015

Library News for May 2015

Library Week: Khalifa Women's College


KWC celebrated Library Week with a variety of activities, organized and demonstrated by the Library staff. Students enjoyed the augmented reality app, Colarmix which enabled them to create animated figures from a basic coloring-in sheet. Other Makerspaces included origami (paper folding) and Leap Motion control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements. During the week, the Library cinema showed movies such as The Social Network and The Pursuit of Happiness. On request, the ILC Librarian hosted sessions titled "How to Read Aloud to Children for the Education students." These were thoroughly enjoyed by the students and taught them the basic reading aloud skills needed to read successfully to young children.

Library Week: Abu Dhabi Women's College

For the library week at ADWC, we had the Makerspace area which included activities for augmented reality, origami and games. Students were excited to try their hands at augmented reality and origami. Movies on extreme adventure and accomplished people were playing every afternoon in our Multimedia room.

We had ‘Guess the Country’ competition running throughout the week. There were 60 entries, and Ghaya Hamad Gahem Hamad Almheiri of Applied Bachelors was the winner!


Our library week activities ended with an afternoon tea and prize-giving for the ‘Country Competition’ winner.