The reference service staff of the Children's Public Library will answer you in its various locations, whether you are in the library building, via phone, via the library email, or the library’s Instagram and Twitter accounts @cploman
All this in order to learn about the sources of information and how to arrange them on the shelves of the library, and to access the appropriate references, both paper and digital.
Ask a Librarian - You can ask the library team a question via our online form.
The Children's Public Library welcomes all its visitors, including parents, teachers, caregivers, children and young people within the library's target group (3-17 years).
The information sources available on the library shelves vary, amounting to 16,000 paper information sources, varying in their languages between Arabic, English and other languages.
The library is used to classify the topics of this treasure of knowledge through the Dewey Decimal Classification, and the age classification "Arabic Classification 21".
In the Children's Public Library, we believe that reading is the magical gateway to the mind, and the flying carpet that carries us to worlds that flood us with the light of the word and wisdom. These worlds have been crossed by many people before us, and we are now crossing it through books.
Electronic Information Sources
The Children's Public Library provides its visitors with the opportunity to browse through a variety of electronic information sources, including e-books, audio books, interactive educational visual materials (video) and educational and entertainment games, which are available on all computers inside the library.
All this is in addition to a database of electronic knowledge resources that displays visual materials, interactive stories and videos of the workshops on two interactive screens.
To ensure that you have a broader experience within the children's library, Internet
service is available on public computers and computer labs. For more details, see (Computer Use Policy Page)
The Children's Public Library team is pleased to take you on introductory tours through which you see the knowledge floors of the library, the bookshelves, the different spaces, its services spread in all its corners, and its facilities that pledge to provide fun and benefit to you and your young ones.
Tours may be for individual visitors, educational institutions, or interested groups wishing to visit the place.
To facilitate your smooth introductory tour of the Children's Public Library, kindly fill out this form.
We look forward to meeting the Library's young friends through its interesting and enjoyable events and programs, which we carefully prepare for them to meet their mental, physical, linguistic and other needs.
The events are announced through the library’s accounts on the Instagram and Twitter platforms, and requests for participation are received through your presence at the library or by registering in the links that are published with the event announcement.
We look forward to your participation in the series of workshops that we prepare for your enjoyment, so that your memory will preserve the cognitive experiences that bring you together with your younger ones.
The Children's Public Library believes that playing is the best friend of knowledge. Playing opens minds and ignites in us the spark of life. This is how we love movement and flow of knowledge. We welcome you and your friends to gather in an atmosphere of excitement and fun with the collection of games offered by the Library including board and card games...
These games are designed to interact the young kids and the adults too.
And remember: "Every now and then, go out and play." Bernard Suits
Canadian philosopher