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Continuous education is one of the serious concerns of the present PSU Central Library Director. Library professionals should have the opportunity to adapt themselves to the rapidly evolving technological so-ciety; it is inevitably true that keeping up with to-day’s constant changes and innovations is a challeng-ing task, nevertheless we have to develop knowl-edge and skills to operate successfully at our informa-tion utilities. Information proliferation nowadays affects all professionals but none more than librarians/ information professionals since they are most in-volved in acquiring, analy-sis, description, service and delivery of informa-

tion. They are required to implement rele-vant advanced technologies to handle the mass of nascent infor-mation in all field of knowledge; in other words, they have special responsibility to keep themselves up-to-date with development in their specialty.

Briefly, factors promoting significance of continuing education for library/ infor-mation professionals may include: (1) vast and un-ceasing growth of knowl-edge (2) growing adaption of technology in libraries/ information centers (3)

needs of an increasing edu-

cation population (4) out-reach programs to attract new patrons and (5) chang-ing trend in library infor-mation service.

We recognize the special characteristics and func-tions (turn to page 2)

All systems go. Newly installed WYSE mobile client-server system now available in the Library.

Continuous Education for PSU Central Library Staff

PSU C-Lib terminals now using WYSE systems called the WYSE client sys-tems. The system, which utilizes Citrix software are expected to provide better speed than what we used in the Central Library for the past two years. What’s cool about this stuff is you don't

see big boxes of CPU’s but instead it seem like there are only monitors on the workstations.

These terminals were installed in cooperation with the (turn to page 2)

Special points of interest:

From the Foreign Mate-rials Cataloging Section

Library Quick Links

Arabic Union Catalog (AUC)

Book Fair

New Acquisitions

Library Trivia

PSU Library Newsletter

T H E O F F I C I A L N E W S L E T T E R O F T H E P S U C E N T R A L L I B R A R Y

Volume 2, Issue 1

March 2009 Riyadh, KSA

Foreign Materials Cata-loging report

2

Book Logs presents: Dr. Donald Wayne Hendon

4

Recommended Read-ing, User Services

5

Arabic Union Catalog (AUC)

7

New Arabic and non-Arabic acquisitions

8-9

McGraw Hill, Pearson Book Fair @ PSU

10

Comics /Trivia Page/ OpenBiblio review

11

Library Patron/ Book-worm of the Month

3

Inside this issue:

There’s something to look forward to the PSU Central Library.

Last October, the old li-brary terminals were re-placed by better modem-like computing machines

bly asserted; librarians/ information specialists are expected to go beyond acquiring and organizing information to establish innovative university li-brary services in their contributing to translating university objectives into meaningful services; but university libraries of today are being equipped with growing sophisticated informa-tion technologies and media including electronic digital media. Drastic changes in information (turn to p.6)

The foreign materials section is ex-cited to announce that the reference books have been catalogued and re-classified from Library of Congress (LC) to Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC). For the past 4 months, the department has been busy doing inventories, cataloguing and technical processing at the same time.

Due to OpenBiblio’s absence for six months, not all reference books can be searched in the OPAC. The good news is, all books encoded from No-

vember are assured of bibliographic records—including newly acquired books starting on that month. Cata-loging and reclassi-fication will not cease and expects to speed up the output once Symphony system is in-stalled.

At present, the FM section is catalog-

ing general collection books. To date, almost 20% of the collection have been classified and processed. The target phase is around 30-40 books a day, or 600–800 a month and that means it will take around six

months to catalog the entire collection.

Finding books on the shelves are quite confusing at the moment and to make things easy for everyone, we placed the new acquisitions and up-dated books on the first three shelves. On the other hand, older books are located on the succeeding shelves and are not yet searchable in the cata-log. Moreover, the presence of two classification systems will be solved by having a single system in due time.

For more information about Foreign Materials Section, visit us at the first floor of the PSU Central Library or s e n d q u e r i e s t o b r e [email protected]. You may also check our OPAC at http://10.0.19.114/openbiblio/opac/index.html

- Benjamin Reora Requiero | FMC

ment with the WYSE devices for eve-ryone’s enjoyable browsing.

Now, go ahead and connect!

- Benjamin Reora Requiero | Foreign Materials Cataloguer

IT Computer Center, a three-month task that was finished on January 2009. Mr. Mahfooz and Shehzad Qadri took charge in the installation and made sure that every device can be used by the students. In addition to WYSE, flat screen Hewlett Packard LCD monitors were delivered last month to compli-

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From the Foreign Materials Collection

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of college and university libraries, giving involved librarians/ informa-tion specialists responsibility for pro-fessional growth. The main character-istic of a good college/ university is it’s complete identification with rele-vant college/ university; its excel-lence is monitored by the extent of its resources and support to university objectives.

University library role in supporting university objectives is unquestiona-


Foreign reference collection in-cludes books on general topics.

Worst thing about the library: Some-times other users are

n o t aware of the noise they are creating.

C o m -ments: I s u g g e s t for more l i b r a r y

service hours.

E-books or printed books?: It depends on the place I’m in. But I prefer printed books when inside the library.

Name and designation: Lennard Apora Plandor, Collection Manage-ment Librarian

Degree: Bachelor of Library and In-formation Science (2002), Master of Library and Information Science (lacks thesis) Master of Information Science Candidate (2010)

Affiliations: ALA, PAARL

Years at PSU: 2 years, 11 months

Previous work before PSU: Librarian at Asian Institute of Management, Makati City, Philippines

Favorite book(s): The Lord of the Rings trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Favorite quote(s): “There is nothing on this Earth more to be prized than true friendship” (Saint Thomas Aqui-nas)

Favorite pastime: surfing the net and watching movies

R e c o m m e n d e d w e b s i t e ( s ) : www.nationalgeographic.com

Current Awareness Service (CAS):

http://www.psu.edu.sa/library/resources/cas.html

Cooperative Reports:

http://www.psu.edu.sa/library//resources/coop.pdf

PSU Central Library Homepage:

http://www.psu.edu.sa/library/index.html

Electronic Resources:

http://www.psu.edu.sa/library/resources/resources.html

Online Public Access Catalog:

http://10.0.19.114/openbiblio/opac/index.php

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) :

http://www.psu.edu.sa/library/contact/faq.html

Bookworm of the Month

Library Quick Links (effective 1 March 2009)

Name: Adeeb Salhany

Year & Course: Junior/ Computer Sci-ence

Research interests: Gen-eral topics on my field of study (Computer science)

Websites that you fre-quently visit: http://www.pcworld.com

Favorite pastime: travel-ling especially during the summer months

Favorite quote: “Do more, learn more.”

Favorite section in the library: Read-ing Area (2nd floor)

Best things about the library: Good place to get your concentration.

Mr. Lennard, our featured librarian for the month of March.

“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So

it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it

completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its

subtleties, and its very atoms. ”

- Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet and writer

Featured Librarian of the Month

Adeeb, (left) poses with his best buddy.

Library Trivia Question:

What do you mean by ILL?

(Answer on the last page)

I had the chance to interview one of the PSU’s finest professors and author of 5 critically-acclaimed books, Dr. Donald Wayne Hendon. I never had dull moments with him, as from time to time he throws out really funny punch lines. Here’s the transcript of the inter-view:

Benjamin Requiero (BR): Can you give me a short background of your academic credentials?

Donald Hendon (DH): I’m attaching a short bio-sketch I use to generate con-sulting. Lots of info there. Right now: BBA Management 1962, University of Texas at Austin. MBA Marketing 1964 University of California at Berkeley. PhD Marketing 1971 University of Texas at Austin.

BR: I searched your profile from the UMUC website and read that you’ve travelled in 8 countries and 13 states (US) including Puerto Rico. What made you decide to go to the King-dom of Saudi Arabia and teach?

DH: Actually, I’ve given seminars and done consulting in 36 nations on 6 continents, since the early 1970s. I’ve TAUGHT in 8 nations. I give most of my seminars in the Asia-Pacific region during summer vacations from my university. I retired from full-time teaching in 2003 and devoted myself to consulting seminars, again in the Asia-Pacific region, not in the USA. I usually make 4 trips a year overseas (from my US base in Mesquite, Ne-vada near Las Vegas, where I have a house overlooking the 11th hole of the Casablanca Hotel-Casino’s golf

course) and spend about a month on each trip on business. Why Saudi Ara-bia? My good friend Zafar Ahmed (who taught at PSU last school year) recruited me and made sure PSU made me “an offer too good to re-fuse.”

BR: How do you find Prince Sultan University? How about the learning culture of its students? (or young Saudis in general)

DH: PSU is an interesting place to teach. The learning culture of its stu-dents and young Saudis in general—both interesting.

BR: Would you see the Business & Marketing degress (e.g. BBA/MBA) prosper in the Kingdom of Saudi Ara-bia?

DH: Yes.

BR: In your 30 years of teaching abroad, where was the most memora-ble place? How about the least?

DH: Most memorable: 2 come to mind—University of Nevada at Las Vegas (my first full-time teaching job) and Universiti Putra Malaysia in Kuala

Lumpur. I love multi-cultural Malaysia and its great food and interesting peo-ple. Great weather, too. Had a view of the 2 towers of Petronas Building (then the tallest building in the world) from my apartment.

BR: You have published 5 books and in my opinion you’re the only faculty in PSU that has those numbers. Who/ What inspires you to write books?

DH: The money from royalties is good. Plus, being a published author helps me get consulting jobs.

BR: Speaking about your books, which is your personal favorite? What was the most difficult to write? (turn to page 10)

Book Logs presents: Dr. Donald Wayne Hendon

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Take a Sudoku Break

library/web://http/موقع املكتبة اإللـكـتـروين

html.index.

.الربيد اإللكتروين

.عرض املستجدات يف لوحات اإلعالنات املخصصة للمكتبة

عرض األوعية واملصادر احلديثة يف رفوف عرض أو ركن خاص

.هلا باملكتبة

.االتصال الشخصي أو اهلاتفي باملستفيدين

أو التصوير الفوتـوسـتـايت Scanningاملسح اإللكتروين

.للمعلومات

ومن فوائد هذه اخلدمة مساعدة املستفيدين على حتديث معلوماـم

وتعريفهم مبوارد املعلومات اجلديدة وتوثيق أواصر التواصل مـعـهـم،

واجتذام للمسامهة يف اختيار موارد معلومات جديدة من شأا إثـراء

.جمموعة املكتبة، وتلبية حاجات املعلومات املتجددة للمستفيدين

آملني أن نوفق لتقدمي خدمات معلوماتية تتمتع مبستوى متميز مـن

.حيث التنوع واجلودة واملالءمة للحاجات املعلوماتية للمستفيدين

قسم خدمات املعلومات واملستفيدين

عــبــداهللا . أ

The story begins in Afghanistan, from the perspective of a young boy. The usual antics of boys, such as throwing stones at the neighbor’s one-eyed dog and using a mirror to reflect the sun’s rays through the neighbor’s window to annoy him, are graphically described. We find out his best friend is a Hazari, a minority, and looked down on by many Afghanis. The annual kite competition comes around and Khalid and his friend enter the competition. The goal is to fly your kite with shards of glass glued to the string and cut the string of your op-ponent. After some hours flying, Khalid wins the competition. His Hazari friend goes to retrieve the kite but is set upon by the local bully and his cronies. This marks the beginning of the end of the two boys’ friendship. As the Afghanistan war rages on, the father moves the fam-ily to Pakistan for greater safety. We then find we are less than half way through the book as the story takes sev-eral further twists and turns

The most impressive aspect of the story for me was the twisting and turning of the story. You cannot miss out any chap-ter of the book without missing a major part. It holds your attention from the first few pages right until the end. And there are a whole variety of characters with which everyone can empathize or de-spise, as they see fit.

- reviewed by Mr. Geoff Hol-land | Lecturer | PSU English Department

تستهدف جهود اختصاصيي املكتبات ومراكز املعلومات االرتقاء

مبستوى جودة املعلومات املتوافرة للمستفيدين، ويعد قسم خدمـات

يف Information Services Departmentاملعلومات

املكتبة املركزية جبامعة األمري سلطان حلقة الوصل بني املـكـتـبـة

واملستفيدين من أعضاء هيئة التدريس والطلبة والباحثني واملوظفـني،

ويقاس مدى جناح املكتبة يف حتقيق رسالتها من خالل ما توفره مـن

.خدمات املعلومات اليت تليب حاجات املستفيدين

Current Awareness" اإلحاطة اجلارية " تعد خدمة

Service من أبرز خدمات قسم خدمات املعلومات يف املكتـبـة

بث املعلومات عن موارد املعلومات اجلديدة املتاحة مبا : املركزية، وهي

املتمثلة يف Macrodocumentsفيها املوارد أو الوثائق الكلية

املراجع والكتب واملسلسالت واملواد السمعية والبصرية والوسـائـط

اإللكترونية، واملوارد أو الوثائق اجلزئية أو الـتـحـلـيـلـيـة

Microdocuments ،كمقاالت الدوريات، وحبوث املؤمترات

وفصول الكتب، وتويل إدارة املكتبة املركزية االهتمام لتقدمي هـذه

.اخلدمة وجودا واستمراريتها

ولكي تقدم اخلدمة بالشكل األمثل جيب مراعاة عدة جوانب ،

:أمهها

جاهزية املوارد املعلن عنها ، حبيث تكون منظمة ومتـاحـة

للمستفيدين حني اإلعالن عنها، وميكن للمستفيديـن

.طلبها من املكتبة، واالستفادة منها حال احتياجهم هلا

حداثة موارد املعلومات املعلن عنها، حيث يـتـم إعـالم

املستفيدين بأحدث ما وصل من موارد املعلومات وتعد

مسة حداثة املعلومات عنصر جذب واستقطاب لعـدد

.أكرب من املستفيدين

املالءمة، أي اتصال موارد املعلومات اجلديدة بتخصـصـات

املستفيدين واهتمامام البحثية والتعليمية والدراسيـة

.والعلمية

اتساع نطاق تقدمي خدمة اإلحاطة اجلارية لتنتفع ا أيضـا

.املستفيدات يف كلية البنات يف جامعة األمري سلطان

عن موارد البيانات الببليوغرافية األساسيةوتم هذه اخلدمة بعرض

املعلومات ، خاصة اسم املؤلف، والعنوان، وبيانات النشر، ورقـم

الطلب لكل منها، خاصة الكتب واملراجع، وصور من أغلفتها، وقوائم

حمتوياا، وتوجيه هذه املعلومات عنها للمستفيدين بعدة وسـائـل

:وأساليب ومنها

.النشرة الدورية للمكتبة املركزية

Recommended Reading

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, now also major motion picture.

Current Awareness Serviceاإلحاطة الجاریة

Book Club Meeting

Next meeting will be

on March 9, 2009

Where: PSU Central

Library @ 12:30 P.M.

Book: I Was Told

There’d Be Cake by

Sloane Crosley

Contact: Mr. Geoff

Holland x 8333

Email: ghol-

[email protected]

ingly becoming more knowledgeable about information technology and more conversant about computers and the Internet, they demand high-level information services tailored to their informa-tion needs. Cor-r e s p o n d i n g l y , university library professionals and paraprofessionals should keep up-to-date in informa-tion providing and delivery techniques, which could be achieved through continuing edu-cation by formal and informal means, enabling them to perform their

information technology demand li-brarians/ information specialists to adopt to the advanced environment, and to forecast and be prepared for forthcoming evolutions; these facts point to the significance of continuous education to librarians/information specialists, professional as well as supportive. Continuing education op-portunities encompass both formal and informal learning situations, re-quiring special leaves, sabbaticals, etc. to enable involved individuals to attend courses, workshops, institutes, seminars.

Continuing professional education is a lifelong learning, indispensable for professional growth, and instrumental for sustaining one’s competence. As university user population is increas-

work effectively & efficiently, to equip them with tools needed to serve users satisfactorily, and to identify and em-

brace appropriate technologies to apply in their daily work.

University library education means fre-quently include certi-fied programs, up-coming workshops, local and regional training institutes, web courses, semi-nars, panel presenta-

tions, group discussions, committee board meetings, including annual meetings, and conferences.

Hence, PSU Central Library has of-fered useful continuous education op-portunities through the last four months to candidates from Central Library and College for Women Branch Library to attend workshops, meetings and day-long training ses-sions in Prince Salman Central Univer-sity Library (KSU) and Arab Union Catalogue Centre (AUC). Also, one candidate from the Central Library attended a three-day workshop on Development of Skills in Information Search, organized by both the Insti-tute of Diplomatic Studies and Special Libraries Association—Arabian Gulf Chapter and taking place in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 26-28th of January 2009.

--Prof. Fouad Hamad Rizq Farsuni, Ph.D. | PSU Central Library Director

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Prof. Fouad Hamad Rizq Farsuni, Ph.D., actively supports continuous education of librarians.

DDC Main Classes:

000 - 099

Computer science, General works

100 - 199

Philosophy & psychol-ogy

200 - 299

Religion

300 - 399

Social Sciences

400 - 499

Languages

500 - 599

Science

600 - 699

Technology

700 - 799

Arts & recreation

800 - 899

Literature

900 - 999

History & Geography


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other from College for Women Branch Library. Our library’s actual use and benefit from AUC service will be real-izable after the installation and opera-tion of Symphony automated library system.

Arabian Advanced Systems (AAS) has been technically contributing to the establishment, operation, and promot-ing of AUC use; moreover, several library and information specialists and cataloguing experts have been in-volved in laying basic infrastructure of AUC project, including the present writer himself who took charge in preparation of standards and policies

governing Arabic subject headings used in AUC bibliographic records, taking into consideration Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). In addition to the basic require-ments of Arabic and Islamic sub-ject headings, the text of AUC subject heading standards and policies embraces approxi-mately one hundred (100) pages.

Library of Congress Subject Headings list is undergoing con-stant substantial changes to adapt to recent trends in subject analysis, indexing language con-struction and grammar, facet analysis strategies, and pro-descriptor coinage. LC subject head-ings have overwhelmingly compli-cated rules, cases and subdivisions no

King Abdulaziz Public Library has es-tablished, and operates Arabic Union Catalogue and has launched offering its services to subscribing library and information centres, such services include search and retrieval of biblio-graphic records. It is needless to say that OCLC has set the pace in this field and has been consulted in planning AUC projects. Now, Arab Union Cata-log Center constitutes a bibliographic utility funded by King Abdulaziz Pub-lic Library, “charged with the estab-lishment, development, operation and provision of the AUC, and related ser-vices.”

Its database stands as a remarkable and rich catalogue of bibliographic records for Arabic monographs held by member libraries that embrace national, public, and academic librar-ies; preparation of records take into consideration latest library and docu-mentation standards used to describe item format, contents and location. Arab Union Catalogue Center offers basic technical support services and training to subscribing libraries’ cata-loguers. AUCC’s membership appli-cation form explains fundamental as-pects, terms, user obligations, sub-scription fees, period and termination and dealing with misuse of AUC. How-ever, its subscription fees range be-tween SR 1900 (500 USD) to SR 18,500 (5,000 USD) depending on number of library holdings (titles), and number of user accounts. PSU Central Library has recently subscribed to AUC ser-vice, last week two of its staff partici-pated in training offered by AUCC, one from the Central Library, the

longer needed in libraries and infor-mation centres using latest automated information systems such as Sym-phony, and in such advanced digital environment equipped with various search methods and strategies, and increasingly oriented to offering user-friendly search facilities to users.

Therefore, I would advise AUCC ad-ministration to regularly revise AUC subject heading standards and poli-cies, lay aside LC subject headings’ numerous rules and policies and adopt more adequate subject head-ings of their own, making use of the expertise of the relevant Arab infor-mation specialists, who collaborated with AUC project team in the outset and who are ready to collaborate when asked to finally accomplish AUCC goals.

-- Prof. Dr. Fouad Hamad Rizq Farsuni, Ph.D. | PSU Central Library Director

Arabic Union Catalogue (AUC)

The Arabic Union Catalogue homepage. (http://aruc.org/web/guest/welcome)

McGraw Hill, 2007. Call No. CIRC 428.2 K638 2007

10. Interactions 1 : l i s t e n i n g / s p e a k i n g / Edith Tanka -silver ed. - New York : McGraw Hill, c2007. Call No. CIRC 428.3 T156 2007 (2 copies)

11. Interactions 1 : reading / Elaine Kirn - silver ed. - New York : McGraw Hill, c2007. Call No. CIRC 428.3 K638 2007

12. Interactions 1 : writing / Cheryl Pavlik - silver ed. - New York : McGraw Hill, 2007. Call No. CIRC 808.042 P289 2007

13. Interactions 2 : grammar / Patricia Werner - silver ed. - New York : McGraw Hill, 2007. Call No. CIRC 428.2 W495 2007

14. Interactions 2 : listening/ speak-ing / Judith Tanka - silver ed. -New York : McGraw Hill, c2007. Call No. CIRC 428.3 T156 2007 l.2

15. English for academic study : vo-cabulary / Colin Campbell -Reading : Garnet Publishing, c2007. Call No. CIRC 428.2407 C152 2007

16. New insights into business / Gra-ham Tullis - Harlow : Pearson Longman, 2000. Call No. CIRC 428.24002465 T826 2000

1. Introduction to information sys-tems / James O’Brien - 14th ed. -Boston : McGraw Hill, 2008. Call No. CIRC 658.4038 Ob6 2008

2. Information systems and develop-ment / David Avison - 4th ed. -London : McGraw Hill, 2006. Call No. CIRC 003 Av56 2006

3. Real estate principles : a value approach / David C. Ling - 2nd ed. - Boston : McGraw Hill, c2008. Call No. CIRC 333.332 L646 2008 (5 copies)

4. Enterprise information systems / James A. O’Brien - 13th ed. - Bos-ton : McGraw Hill, 2007. Call No. CIRC 658.4038 Ob6e 2007

5. Psychology : annual editions / Karen G. Duffy - 37th ed. - Iowa : McGraw Hill, 2007.

6. Designing and managing the sup-ply chain : concepts, strategies and case studies / David Simchi Levi - 3rd ed.- Boston : McGraw Hill, c2008. Call No. CIRC 658.5 L578 2008

7. Arabic verbs and essentials of grammar / Jane Wightwick - 2nd ed. - New York : McGraw Hill, 2008. Call No. CIRC 492.782421 W639 2008

8. Interactions access : listening/ speaking / Emily Austin Thrush -silver ed. - New York : McGraw Hill, 2007. Call No. CIRC 428.34 T419 2007

9. Interactions 1 : grammar / Elaine Kim - silver ed. - New York :

17. First insights into business / Sue Robbins - Harlow : Pearson Long-man, c2000. Call No. CIRC 428.2402465 R538 2000

18. Academic writing course / R.R. Jordan - new ed. - Harlow : Long-man, c1996. Call No. CIRC 808 J766 1996

19. New interchange : English for international communication stu-dents’ book 1 / Jack C. Richards -

Cambridge : Cam-bridge University Press, 1997. Call No. CIRC 428.24 R391

1997

20. New interchange : English for international communication workbook 1 / Jack C. Richards -Cambridge : Cambridge Univer-sity Press, 1997. Call No. CIRC 428.24 R391w 1997

21. Market leader : pre-intermediate business English course / David Cotton - Harlow : Pearson, 2002. Call No. CIRC 428.24 C829 2002

22. Mosaic 1 : listening/ speaking / Jami Hanreddy - 4th ed. - New York : McGraw Hill, c2002. Call No. CIRC 428.34 H197 2002

23. Mosaic 1 : listening/ speaking / Brenda Wegmann - 4th ed. - New York : McGraw Hill, c2002. Call No. CIRC 428.64 W421 2002

24. Mosaic 1 : listening/ speaking / Laurie Blass - 2nd ed. - New York : McGraw Hill, c2002. Call No. CIRC 808.042 B613 2002 (continued on next page)

Selected New Acquisitions (non-Arabic)

New acquisitions welcomes everyone as soon as they enter PSU Central Library.


25. The new manual basic emergency procedures first aid and updated CPR / Mohamed Seraj - 2nd ed. - Riyadh : [Saudi Anesthetic Association], 2001. Call No. CIRC 616.0252 Se65 2001

26. Macromedia Flash for Windows and Macintosh / Katherine Ulrich -California : Peachpit Press, 2002. Call No. CIRC 006.696 Ul75 2002

27. Adobe Premiere 6.5 : classroom in a book / [staff of Adobe Systems] -California : Adobe, 2003. Call No. CIRC 778.5235 Ad71 2003

28. The native architecture of Saudi Arabia / Ellahi Ishteeaque - Riyadh : Riyadh Municipality, c2008. Call No. SA 728.09531 Is3 2008.

29. Entdecken Sie das Konigreich Saudi Arabien / Ghazi Twal - Riyadh : King Abdulaziz Public Library, c2007.

Call No. SA 915.31 T911 2007.

30. Pilgrimage to Mecca / Lady Eve-lyn Cobbold - Ri-yadh : King Abdu-laziz Public Li-brary, 2008. Call

No. SA 915.312104 C637 2008

31. TOEFL strategies / Eli Hinkel - 3rd ed. - New York : Barrons Educational Series, 2004. Call No. CIRC 428.0076 H592 2004 (3 copies)

32. GRE comprehensive program / by the staff of Kaplan Test Prep and Ad-missions - 2009 ed. - New York : Kap-lan Publishing, c2008. Call No. CIRC 378.1664 G754 2008 (2 copies)

33. GMAT 2008 with CDROM / Eugene Jaffe - 14th ed. - New York : Barrons

Educational Series, c2007. Call No. CIRC 658.0076 J18 2007 (2 copies)

34. Master the GMAT 2009 / Mark Alan Stewart - New Jersey : Petersons, 2008. Call No. CIRC 650.076 St49 2008 (2 copies)

35. Master the GRE / Mark Alan Stew-art - New Jersey : Petersons, 2008. Call No. CIRC 371.13 St49 2008 (2 copies)

36. TOEFL iBT : internet-based test / Pamela Sharpe - New York : Barrons Educational Series, c2006. Call No. CIRC 428.0076 Sh24 2006 (3 copies)

New acquisitions are announced as they arrive in various channels: Outlook mails, Newsletter, PSU Library Website and LCD screens around the campus. Everyone is advised to regularly check these media for more information.

ونتوجه بالشكر والتقدير إلدارة مكتبة امللك فهد

الوطنية على اهتمامها بإثراء مقتنيـات مكتبـيت

اجلامعة مبنشوراا ، وإدراجها املكتبة املركزية يف

قائمة الربيد لديها لتزويدها بنسخ مما يصدر عنها

.من منشورات قيمة

مسؤل حممد إبراهيم

قسم املقتنيات العربية

بسم اهللا الرمحن الرحيم

جديد املقتنيات العربية

يعلن قسم املقتنيات العربية باملكتبة املركزية عـن

وصول العدد من الكتب اجلديدة عـن طريـق

الشراء واإلهداء والتبادل، حيث قامـت إدارة

املكتبة املركزية بشراء سلسلة تطويـر التعليـم

اجلامعي اليت صدرت عن دار الراية ،،،، وأهدت

مكتبة امللك فهد الوطنية أكثر من ستني كتابا لكل

من املكتبة املركزية واملكتبة الفرعية بكلية البنات

Selected New Acquisitions (Arabic)

PSU Central Library entrance gate.

Selected New Acquisitions (non-Arabic)

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Cover page of some newly-acquired Arabic books. Check them out at the 2nd floor.

How long does it take you to write a book?

DH: I like CLASSIC FAILURES IN PRODUCT MARKETING the most. It’s a book about dumb mistakes in busi-ness. I wanted to call it IN SEARCH OF FAILURE (because IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE was a hot book at the time), but my publisher didn't want to go that route. Really dumb mistakes. Some of them are very funny. No book is hard for me to write. I’ve always been a good writer. Plus I type over 100 words per minute.

BR: Do you have any immediate plans? Does that include writing an-other book?

DH: Immediate plans: finish the se-mester. Next book will be out in July 2009. It’s called 365 Powerful Ways to Influence, Persuade and Win Big—In Work and in Life!

BR: I have known that your wife is a Filipina and it quite puzzles me that you never had any teaching stints in the Philippines (or you just didn't men-tion). Why is that? By the way, have you visited the Philippines?

DH: I visited the Philippines for the first time in 1974 to give seminars. I never taught there because the salary levels are much, much too low. I turned down several offers to teach, including Ateneo de Manila Univer-sity, Asian Institute of Management (AIM), etc. Not enough money. I’ve been married to 2 Filipinas—my sec-ond and third wives. My first wife was from Boston, Massachusetts. I go to the Philippines 3 or 4 times a year.

BR: Any advice to students, or aspir-ing writers who would like to try writ-ing?

DH: I don't think its hard to so. I advise you to try.

BR: Parting words or any words of wisdom you’d like to share.

DH : W ork hard. Live long and prosper.

More infor-mation about Dr. Donald W. Hendon:

He is a master i n f l u e n c e r -p e r s u a d e r -n e g o t i a t o r . He’s a winner who knows what works, what doesn't and why. That’s because he’s been training professionals since the 1970s—people who make a living by persuading others. His seminars, given in 36 nations and territories on 6 continents, draw large, enthusiastic

audiences. He’s also a “hired gun,” helping his clients negotiate business deals all over the world. He’s not just street-smart though—his Ph.D. degree in Business is from the University of Texas at Austin and his MBA in Mar-keting is from the University of Cali-fornia at Berkeley. He’s written 5

books which have been published in 13 nations, and several h u n d r e d articles. He lives in Mes-quite, Ne-vada, near Las Vegas.

— Benjamin Reora Re-quiero | Foreign Ma-terials Cata-

loger

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Dr. Donald Wayne Hendon, left shares a light moment with the interviewer, Mr. Benjamin Requiero. (right)

MCGRAW HILL’S MESSAGE:

On behalf of McGraw-Hill Education, we would like to thank Prince Sultan University for giving us the opportu-nity to exhibit our latest titles in the subjects of computer science and in-formation systems on the day of 21st of December; it has been an extraordi-nary experience to meet up with PSU faculty members. This event was su-perbly organized by Mr Shehzad Ghani, chair of the Extracurricular Committee (CCIS) at PSU. It was suc-cessful aiming in discussing our aca-demic textbooks which are suitable to adopt in PSU curriculum for Spring and Fall 2009 semesters. We hope that what we presented was up to the level of the faculty members’ expectations. This event in fact falls as part of an ongoing process and non-stop line of communication with PSU’s lecturers; the students’ kind presence and coop-eration in the said event gave us more motivation to keep up the level of the good service to our loyal customers like Prince Sultan University. At this point, we rest assured about PSU’s bright future in the field of education and academic excellence.

-- Mr. Wisham Al-Sha’ar | McGraw Hill Middle East

PEARSON’S MESSAGE:

We at Pearson Education are always

As the library liaison between the Col-lege of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS) and the chair of Ex-tracurricular college committee, I was privileged to be able to invite and host on CCIS’s behalf two biggest publishers in the region and in the world. McGraw Hill accepted the invi-tation first and arrived on 21st of De-cember, 2008. During their display, they presented their software tech-nologies in a presentation in the main auditorium. They were pleased with CCIS’s arrangements for hosting them and as a token of appreciation gifted all the books they had sent for this display to CCIS. Pearson Education arrived to complete the 2nd session of this publishers display series on 27th January, 2009. Apart from their book display, they also had demo’s ar-ranged, namely www.myitlab.com, w w w . m y m a t h l a b . c o m a n d www.myaccountinglab.com. Apart from giving away all the books they had brought in for all disciplines after the request of XCC, they also sent professors login information to their websites to test and use their portals. These two events saw high number of faculty members of all colleges and departments benefitting from meeting the publishers in person, getting the latest books in their disciplines, and also getting help with course re-sources online. The Extracurricular committee of CCIS will endeavor to continue working towards inviting same and other publishers and bring in more teaching resources for the faculty members of PSU.

— Mr. Shehzad Ghani | Lecturer | PSU

looking at ways to further enhance our presence and services to our custom-ers in the Gulf region. We feel very much at home operating in the Gulf region in general and in Saudi Arabia in particular. We have been actively visiting and working with Prince Sul-tan University for many years now and this year the opportunity has arisen to do a mini book fair for Instructors teaching at PSU. This was organised as a one day event and gave us the chance to meet instructors and to dis-cuss their needs and offer our assis-tance in terms of finding suitable new books for their courses and help with the crucial instructor resources avail-able with our books. It was also the first time where we had the chance to demo our superior online homework and assessment systems to faculty in their respective subjects. During this visit we were able to demo three sys-tems namely www.myitlab.com, w w w . m y m a t h l a b . c o m a n d www.myaccountinglab.com and I hope this will ultimately lead to a new and improved learning experience for students at PSU.

Top publishers conduct Book Fair in Prince Sultan University

Pearson reps busy answering student and faculty queries during the book fair.

Library Newsletter Editorial Staff

code generator and report generator. PSU Central Library is temporarily using OpenBiblio to automate the col-lection of the library and at present there are 1,600 MARC records saved in standard SQL format. Bibliographic records are convertible into different formats such as Excel file, XML, CSV, HTML, SQL script file and query file formats, which makes migration to a any library system manageable in the future.

Users may access OB by typing: http://10.0.19.114/openbiblio/opac/index.php, on your favorite browser. Search by title, author and subject fields at any given day.

OpenBiblio is an easy to use, auto-mated library system written in PHP. It has essential modules like WebOPAC, circulation, cataloging, and staff ad-ministration functionality, and is suit-able for automation of small academic libraries. With OpenBiblio, you can easily create a web-based library sys-tem which is capable of handling ba-sic library functions and services. OpenBiblio is an open-source soft-ware that can be installed easily on your web server and can be accessed anywhere to manage daily staff ad-ministration. More features includes barcode input, MARC support, online book reservations and renewals, bar-

- Lennard A. Plandor | Collection Man-agement Librarian

OpenBiblio : a review of PSU C-Lib’s open source library system

Prof. Fouad Farsuni, Ph.D., Library Director Editorial Consultant [email protected] Phone ext. 8120

Benjamin R. Requiero, Foreign Materials CataloguerEditor-in-Chief/ Layout [email protected] IP Phone ext. 8608

Lennard A. Plandor, Collection Management LibrarianWriter [email protected] Phone ext. 8583

Abdullah Mohamed Ali Smaeel, User Services Librarian [email protected] IP Phone ext. 8608

Samwal Mohammed Ibrahim, Arabic [email protected] Phone ext. 8584

A preview of the OpenBiblio homepage.

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