The Qatar National Library (QNL) has continued to increase its club and the number of books borrowed in 2021, despite pandemic-related restrictions.
The library registered 14,288 new members and gained 287,642 visitors in 2021, several facilities were enabled digitally, and access to the construction was restricted. Users borrowed 183,143 books and accessed 39,351,822 pages online, according to the Library’s 2021 annual report.
QNL is arguably the last national library of the 21st century, housing over a million books. It also houses a rare collection in the Heritage Library and releases the resources of the Qatar Digital Library.
“Since its inception, the Qatar National Library has invested in using generation to supply the public with our facilities. Thus, in 2021, in the face of the global pandemic and with limited access to our physical site, the Library was able to pivot digitally to continue serving our users without interruption.
“The library has built our virtual collection over the years, offering access to a wide variety of fabrics for research, recreation and learning,” QNL Executive Director Tan Huism said in the report.
The library hosted 655 events in 2021, adding 614 online. These brought together more than 28,000 participants. During the pandemic, the library also began offering virtual tours for school teams and hosted 70 of those teams in 2021.
The QNL Heritage Library collection includes infrequent and valuable manuscripts, documents, books, journals and periodicals in Arabic and other languages, such as maps, atlases, globes, old photographs, and travel-related tools and tools.
Together, they document the history of the region and its people, the evolution of concepts over the centuries, and the interaction between the Middle East, the West, and the East.
The Heritage Library continued to upload pieces to its collections until 2021, bringing the total to 215,201.
The library’s virtual repository provides users around the world with loose or digitized pieces from the Heritage Library’s collection, as well as decided options from local partners.
The database allows researchers to search for top resources online, offering a valuable resource for scholars of the Middle East and Islam.
There were 197,484 users of virtual repositories in 2021. De these, more than 19,000 were new users.
The Qatar Digital Library (QDL), a partnership between QNL, the British Library and the Qatar Foundation, reached a milestone in 2021 with the upload of the two millionth virtual symbol on the platform.
QDL has become one of the most widely used virtual libraries in the region, with 297,373 exclusive users in 2021, bringing the total to more than two million exclusive users in more than 165 countries and 18 territories worldwide since its launch in 2014. With restrictions, QDL has become a lifeline for academics.
QNL has registered 180,123 members and 2,006,306 visits since its opening in 2017. It has lent 1,975,748 books and recorded more than one million virtual interactions.
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