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.
 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.
Library orientation session for new students. @ The Central Library
Library orientation session for new students. @ The Central Library
âMeet Your Academic Advisorâ Event: The Deanship of Admission & Registration & Student Affairs organized an event called âMeet Your Academic Advisorâ 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.
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âMeet Your Academic Advisorâ Event. YU Faculty meeting the students @ the Central LibraryÂ
âMeet Your Academic Advisorâ Event. YU Faculty meeting the students @ the Central LibraryÂ
Library booth:
Based on the Vice Presidentâs request to the Deanship of Admission & Registration & Student Affairs to include the library orientation session during the studentsâ reception event. The concerned department allocated a separate booth for the library department during the studentsâ 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. .
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New Studentsâ visiting the library booth. @ TUWAIQ Building Â
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.
New students visiting the library booth @ NAJD BuildingÂ
LIBRARY DAY for Students at all Levels:
YU library organized the âLibrary Dayâ 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.
Students at all levels visiting the library booth @ TUWAIQ Building
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Students at all levels visiting the library booth @ TUWAIQ Building
New Arrivals (Print Resources)
SN | Book Title | Author | edition | Location |
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 |
3 | Financial Modeling | Simon Benninga, Tal Mofkadi | 5th | Available in both Central and Female libraries |
4 | Organizational Change | Barbara Senior, Swailes, Stephen& Carnall, Colin. | 6th | Available 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 |
6 | Project Management | Harvey Maylor | 5th | Available in both Central and Female libraries |
7 |
Statistics for Business and Economies. | McClave, James T.;Â Benson, P. George, Sincich, Terry |
14th |
Available in both Central and Female libraries |
8 | Compensation management in a knowledge-based world | Richard I. Henderson. | 10th | Available in both Central and Female libraries |
9 | Leadership: Theory, Application, & Skill Development | Robert N. Lussier, Christopher F. Achua | 7th | Available in both Central and Female libraries |
10 | Calculus for business, economics, life sciences, and social sciences | Barnett, Raymond | 14th | Available in both Central and Female libraries |
11 | Applied statics and strength of materials | Leonard Spiegel, George F. Limbrunner | 6th | Available in both Central and Female libraries |
12 | Literature: A Portable Anthology
|
Janet E. Gardner
|
5th
|
Available in both Central and Female libraries |
13 | Financial 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 scientists | Andreas C. MĂŒller and Sarah Guido.
|
1st |
Available in both Central and Female libraries |
16 |
Oxford Advanced Learnerâs Dictionary of current English | A.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 |
1st | Available in both Central and Female libraries |
20 | Architecture and identity: responses to cultural and technological change |
Chris Abel. |
3rd | Available in the Architectural library |
21 | Creating sensory spaces: the architecture of the invisible | Barbara Erwine | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
22 |
Architectural system structures: integrating design complexity in industrialised construction |
Kasper SĂĄnchez VibĂŠk |
1st |
Available in the Architectural library |
23 | Making places for people: 12 questions every designer should ask | Christie Coffin | 1st | Available 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 |
27 | The Routledge companion to artificial intelligence in architecture | edited by Imdat As and Prithwish Basu. | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
28 |
HAPPY DESIGN TOOLKIT: architecture for better mental wellbeing |
Ben Channon |
1st |
Available in the Architectural library |
29 | Architectural terra cotta | Donald B. Corner and John Rowell | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
30 | Adapt as an architect: a mid-career companion | Randy Deutsch | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
31 | Research methods for the architectural profession | Ajla AkĆĄamija | 1st | Available 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 tomorrow | edited by Raffaele Pernice | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
34 | Virtual aesthetics in architecture: designing in mixed realities | edited by Sara Eloy, Anette Kreutzberg, and Ioanna Symeonidou. |
1st |
Available in the Architectural library |
35 | Urban Transformations through Exceptional Architecture | Nadia 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 |
37 | Rethink design guide: architecture for a post-pandemic world | Nicola Gillen, Pippa Nissen | 1st | Available 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 |
40 | Self-build: how to design & build your own home | Julian Owen | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
41 | Design strategies for reimagining the city: the disruptive image | Linda Matthews | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
42 |
Environmental design sourcebook: innovative ideas for a sustainable built environment | William McLean, Peter Silver |
1st |
Available in the Architectural library |
43 | Ecologies of inception: design potentials on a warming planet | Simone Ferracina | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
44 | Pyrotechnic cities: architecture, fire-safety and standardisation | Liam Ross | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
45 | The handbook to building a circular economy | David Cheshire | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
46 |
The architecture of waste: design for a circular economy | edited 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 |
48 | Small projects handbook | Nigel Ostime | 2nd | Available in the Architectural library |
49 | 21st century houses RIBA award-winning homes | Dominic Bradbury | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
50 | Living construction | Martyn Dade-Robertson | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
51 | Which contract? : choosing the appropriate building contract | Sarah Lupton, Manos Stellakis | 6th | Available in the Architectural library |
52 | Understanding architecture: its elements, history, and meaning | Leland M. Roth and Amanda C. Roth Clark. | 3rd | Available in the Architectural library |
53 | Introducing 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 |
55 | An introduction to passive house | Justin Bere | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
56 |
All-inclusive engagement in architecture: towards the future of social change | edited by Farhana Ferdous and Bryan Bell. |
1st |
Available in the Architectural library |
57 |
Architecture history, theory and preservation: prehistory to the Middle Ages |
Arleen PabĂłn-Charneco |
1st | Available in the Architectural library |
58 | The architecture of persistence: designing for future use | D. Fannon, M. Laboy, P. Wiederspahn. | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
59 | Behind architectural filters: phenomena of interference | Miguel Guitart. | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
60 | Collaborations in architecture and engineering | Clare Olsen , Sinéad Mac Namara | 2nd | Available in the Architectural library |
61 |
Housing and the city | edited by Katharina Borsi, Nick Haynes, Didem Ekici and Jonathan Hale. |
1st |
Available in the Architectural library |
62 |
Residential architecture as infrastructure: open building in practice | edited by Stephen H. Kendall. |
1st |
Available in the Architectural library |
63 |
Architectural education through materiality: pedagogies of 20th century design | edited by Elke Couchez and Rajesh Heynickx. |
1st |
Available in the Architectural library |
64 | Architectural structures: visualizing load flow geometrically | Edmond Saliklis | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
65 |
Architects after architecture: alternative pathways for practice | edited 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 |
67 | All together now: the co-living and co-working revolution | Naomi Cleaver and Amy Frearson. | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
68 | Beautiful lighting: an insider’s guide to LED lighting in homes and gardens | Randall Whitehead, Clifton Stanley Lemon. | 1st | Available in the Architectural library |
69 | SQUEEZING IT IN: designing for compact spaces | Mary Leslie | 1st | Available 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 |
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