Library Events & Orientation

New faculty induction: 23rd August 2023 Wednesday, YU Teaching, Skills & Development Center (TSDC) organized a new faculty induction session at the beginning of fall semester 2023/24. During this induction session, YU Vice President Dr. Waleed Abanomi participated on behalf of the library and delivered a presentation about the library services and facilities.

Picture1 New faculty induction. YU Vice President Dr. Waleed Abanomi addressing the new faculty members @ the main building meeting hall.

Library orientation session for new students: A group of new students visited the central library accompanied by the YU staff from Admission & Registration & Student Affairs The library staff provided an orientation about the library services and facilities such as how to use the library computers and printer, how to search and find the library resources and how to access the library databases on and off the campus and how to borrow the library materials etc.

Picture2

Library orientation session for new students. @ The Central Library

Picture3

Library orientation session for new students. @ The Central Library

“Meet Your Academic Advisor” Event: The Deanship of Admission & Registration & Student Affairs organized an event called “Meet Your Academic Advisor” in the central library on 30 August 2023 Wednesday, from 11:30 am to 3:00 pm for the new students to meet their academic advisor. The advisor(s) (instructor) guide the students to design their study plan and everything that students need.

Picture4 

“Meet Your Academic Advisor” Event. YU Faculty meeting the students @ the Central Library 

Picture5

“Meet Your Academic Advisor” Event. YU Faculty meeting the students @ the Central Library 

Library booth:

Based on the Vice President’s request to the Deanship of Admission & Registration & Student Affairs to include the library orientation session during the students’ reception event. The concerned department allocated a separate booth for the library department during the students’ reception event held at Tuwaiq building on Thursday, 24 August 2023 from 11:30 am to 3:30 pm.  And many YU students visited the library booth, and our staff explained the library services and facilities and showed them how to use and access. .

Picture6 

New Students’ visiting the library booth. @ TUWAIQ Building  

Introductory section for new students:

The Deanship of Admission & Registration and Student Affairs department organized an introductory session for new students during the second semester (spring semester) of the AY 2023/24 on January 23rd Tuesday, 2024. The library also participated in the event, and the concerned department provided a booth for library at Najd building to explain about the library services, resources and facilities. Our library staff Ms. Badreya Al Mutairi was assigned to give a brief orientation to the new students regarding the library services, facilities and how to find the library resources online. In result of the event, many of the new students visited the library booth to get the updated information about the library and its services.

Picture7

New students visiting the library booth @ NAJD Building 

LIBRARY DAY for Students at all Levels:

YU library organized the ‘Library Day’ for the students at all levels on 6 March 2024 at TUWAIQ building.

The event seeks to highlight the importance of libraries and the role they play as a reservoir of knowledge. Furthermore, to encourage reading habits and spread awareness about the rich array of reference resources, digital resources and services. The library supervisor has assigned a library staff to meet the students and show them how to use the library services on and off campus. The event was very successful, and many students from all levels visited the library booth to get more information about the libraries and their services.

Picture8

 

Students at all levels visiting the library booth @ TUWAIQ Building

Picture9 

Students at all levels visiting the library booth @ TUWAIQ Building 

New Arrivals (Print Resources)

SNBook TitleAuthoreditionLocation
 

1

Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365) 

Wayne Winston,

 

7th

Available in both Central and Female libraries
 

2

Understanding Digital Marketing: A Complete Guide to Engaging Customers and Implementing Successful Digital Campaigns 

Damian Ryan

 

5th

Available in both Central and Female libraries
3Financial ModelingSimon Benninga, Tal Mofkadi5thAvailable in both Central and Female libraries
4Organizational ChangeBarbara Senior, Swailes, Stephen& Carnall, Colin.6thAvailable in both Central and Female libraries
 

5

Materials Enabled Designs: The Materials Engineering Perspective to Product Design and Manufacturing 

Michael Pfeifer

 

1st

Available in both Central and Female libraries
6Project ManagementHarvey Maylor5thAvailable in both Central and Female libraries
 

7

Statistics for Business and Economies.McClave, James T.; Benson, P. George, Sincich, Terry 

14th

Available in both Central and Female libraries
8Compensation management in a knowledge-based worldRichard I. Henderson.10thAvailable in both Central and Female libraries
9Leadership: Theory, Application, & Skill DevelopmentRobert N. Lussier, Christopher F. Achua7thAvailable in both Central and Female libraries
10Calculus for business, economics, life sciences, and social sciencesBarnett, Raymond14thAvailable in both Central and Female libraries
11Applied statics and strength of materialsLeonard Spiegel, George F. Limbrunner6thAvailable in both Central and Female libraries
12Literature: A Portable Anthology

 

Janet E. Gardner

 

5th

 

Available in both Central and Female libraries
13Financial Services Technology: Processes,Randall E. Duran

 

2nd

 

Available in Central library
 

14

 

Introduction to machine learning

 

 

Ethem Alpaydin.

 

 

4th

Available in both Central and Female libraries
 

15

Introduction to machine learning with Python: a guide for data scientistsAndreas C. Müller and Sarah Guido.

 

 

1st

Available in both Central and Female libraries
 

16

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of current EnglishA.S. Hornby; managing editors: Diana Lea, Jennifer Bradbery. 

10th

Available in both Central and Female libraries
 

17

The architecture reference + specification book: everything architects need to know every day 

Julia McMorrough.

 

1st

Available in both Central and Female libraries
 

18

The interior design reference + specification book: everything interior designers need to know every day 

Chris Grimley + Mimi Love

 

 

1st

Available in both Central and Female libraries
 

19

Technical Building Blocks: A Technology Reference for Real-world Product Development 

Gaurav Sagar, Vitalii Syrovatskyi

1stAvailable in both Central and Female libraries
20Architecture and identity: responses to cultural and technological change 

Chris Abel.

3rdAvailable in the Architectural library
21Creating sensory spaces: the architecture of the invisibleBarbara Erwine1stAvailable in the Architectural library
 

22

Architectural system structures: integrating design complexity in industrialised construction 

Kasper Sánchez Vibæk

 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
23Making places for people: 12 questions every designer should askChristie Coffin1stAvailable in the Architectural library
 

24

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater: American architecture in the Depression era 

Catherine Zipf

 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
 

25

Open architecture for the people: housing development in post-war Japan 

Shuichi Matsumura,

 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
 

26

The Routledge handbook of infrastructure design: global perspectives from architectural history 

edited by Joseph Heathcott.

 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
27The Routledge companion to artificial intelligence in architectureedited by Imdat As and Prithwish Basu.1stAvailable in the Architectural library
 

28

HAPPY DESIGN TOOLKIT: architecture for better mental wellbeing 

Ben Channon

 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
29Architectural terra cottaDonald B. Corner and John Rowell1stAvailable in the Architectural library
30Adapt as an architect: a mid-career companionRandy Deutsch1stAvailable in the Architectural library
31Research methods for the architectural professionAjla Akšamija1stAvailable in the Architectural library
 

32

The Routledge companion to games in architecture and urban planning: tools for design, teaching, and research 

edited by Marta Brkovic Dodig and Linda N. Groat.

 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
 

33

The urbanism of Metabolism: visions, scenarios and models for the mutant city of tomorrowedited by Raffaele Pernice1stAvailable in the Architectural library
34Virtual aesthetics in architecture: designing in mixed realitiesedited by Sara Eloy, Anette Kreutzberg, and Ioanna Symeonidou. 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
35Urban Transformations through Exceptional ArchitectureNadia Alaily-Mattar (Editor), Alain Thierstein (Editor) 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
 

36

Essential urban design: a handbook for architects, designers and planners 

Rob Cowan.

 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
37Rethink design guide: architecture for a post-pandemic worldNicola Gillen, Pippa Nissen1stAvailable in the Architectural library
 

38

Rethinking the crit : new pedagogies in design education[editors] Patrick Flynn, Maureen O’Connor, Mark Price, Miriam Dunn. 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
 

39

Street-level architecture: the past, present and future of interactive frontages 

Conrad Kickert with Hans Karssenberg

 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
40Self-build: how to design & build your own homeJulian Owen1stAvailable in the Architectural library
41Design strategies for reimagining the city: the disruptive imageLinda Matthews1stAvailable in the Architectural library
 

42

Environmental design sourcebook: innovative ideas for a sustainable built environmentWilliam McLean, Peter Silver 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
43Ecologies of inception: design potentials on a warming planetSimone Ferracina1stAvailable in the Architectural library
44Pyrotechnic cities: architecture, fire-safety and standardisationLiam Ross1stAvailable in the Architectural library
45The handbook to building a circular economyDavid Cheshire1stAvailable in the Architectural library
 

46

The architecture of waste: design for a circular economyedited by Caroline O’Donnell and Dillon Pranger. 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
 

47

New work, new workspace: innovative design in a connected world 

Ruth Slavid

1

st

Available in the Architectural library
48Small projects handbookNigel Ostime2ndAvailable in the Architectural library
4921st century houses RIBA award-winning homesDominic Bradbury1stAvailable in the Architectural library
50Living constructionMartyn Dade-Robertson1stAvailable in the Architectural library
51Which contract? : choosing the appropriate building contractSarah Lupton, Manos Stellakis6thAvailable in the Architectural library
52Understanding architecture: its elements, history, and meaningLeland M. Roth and Amanda C. Roth Clark.3rdAvailable in the Architectural library
53Introducing architectural tectonics: exploring the intersection of design and construction 

Chad Schwartz

 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
 

54

Designed to perform: an illustrated guide to delivering energy efficient homes 

Tom Dollard

 

2nd

Available in the Architectural library
55An introduction to passive houseJustin Bere1stAvailable in the Architectural library
 

56

All-inclusive engagement in architecture: towards the future of social changeedited by Farhana Ferdous and Bryan Bell. 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
 

57

Architecture history, theory and preservation: prehistory to the Middle Ages 

Arleen Pabón-Charneco

1stAvailable in the Architectural library
58The architecture of persistence: designing for future useD. Fannon, M. Laboy, P. Wiederspahn.1stAvailable in the Architectural library
59Behind architectural filters: phenomena of interferenceMiguel Guitart.1stAvailable in the Architectural library
60Collaborations in architecture and engineeringClare Olsen , Sinéad Mac Namara2ndAvailable in the Architectural library
 

61

Housing and the cityedited by Katharina Borsi, Nick Haynes, Didem Ekici and Jonathan Hale. 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
 

62

Residential architecture as infrastructure: open building in practiceedited by Stephen H. Kendall. 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
 

63

Architectural education through materiality: pedagogies of 20th century designedited by Elke Couchez and Rajesh Heynickx. 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
64Architectural structures: visualizing load flow geometricallyEdmond Saliklis1stAvailable in the Architectural library
 

65

Architects after architecture: alternative pathways for practiceedited by Harriet Harriss, Rory Hyde, Roberta Marcaccio. 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
 

66

Architecture, philosophy and the pedagogy of cinema: from Benjamin to Badiou 

Nadir Lahiji.

 

1st

Available in the Architectural library
67All together now: the co-living and co-working revolutionNaomi Cleaver and Amy Frearson.1stAvailable in the Architectural library
68Beautiful lighting: an insider’s guide to LED lighting in homes and gardensRandall Whitehead, Clifton Stanley Lemon.1stAvailable in the Architectural library
69SQUEEZING IT IN: designing for compact spacesMary Leslie1stAvailable in the Architectural library
 

70

Digital fabrication in interior design: body, object, enclosure[editors] Jonathan Anderson and Lois Weinthal. 

1st

Available in the Architectural library