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Got any gossip? Tip off the Taxiwallah: Al Ain Community Library (updated 7/2/07)
My first tip off comes from Towayya. Did you know there was a library in Al Ain? Well you do now:
"We are open sunday and wednesday 10-12, after the school holidays in January we will add an afternoon session. we are located above the bees kingdom daycare in Towayya, behind Towayya park. we will be shut on the 24th and 31st. We have about 2,000 books of various categories, nearly 90% of the books have been donated by the al ain public, which was pretty amazing, we are still getting donations. We also have a toy library. We are charging 150dhs membership for a year, and that goes towards buying new books and dvds and toys"
UPDATE
at the moment the library is only open on sunday and wednesday mornings, due to new regulations from the ministry to do with the daycare.
but hopefully we can return to the evening sessions soon. sorry!
directions again are right at the towayya park r/a, left at the next r/a, then the first right and upstairs in the bees kingdom daycare.
yes, we do have new releases. we recently got a very generous donation of new books still wrapped in plastic from jerboa books/magrudys!
please come along as we need the communities support. i find that people try to do things here but don't get a lot of support from the community and so it gets abandoned. let's not let that happen to the library, as it's the only one there is.
thanks
the library volunteers
"We are open sunday and wednesday 10-12, after the school holidays in January we will add an afternoon session. we are located above the bees kingdom daycare in Towayya, behind Towayya park. we will be shut on the 24th and 31st. We have about 2,000 books of various categories, nearly 90% of the books have been donated by the al ain public, which was pretty amazing, we are still getting donations. We also have a toy library. We are charging 150dhs membership for a year, and that goes towards buying new books and dvds and toys"
UPDATE
at the moment the library is only open on sunday and wednesday mornings, due to new regulations from the ministry to do with the daycare.
but hopefully we can return to the evening sessions soon. sorry!
directions again are right at the towayya park r/a, left at the next r/a, then the first right and upstairs in the bees kingdom daycare.
yes, we do have new releases. we recently got a very generous donation of new books still wrapped in plastic from jerboa books/magrudys!
please come along as we need the communities support. i find that people try to do things here but don't get a lot of support from the community and so it gets abandoned. let's not let that happen to the library, as it's the only one there is.
thanks
the library volunteers
Labels: al ain community, books, library
posted by Al Ain Taxi at 12/18/2006 06:55:00 pm
6 Comments:
We just joined yesterday. It is great that they are starting this up.
That 150 dh membership is for the WHOLE family, not an individual fee. One woman deserves all the credit for this. I think it will grow into an anchor for the community.
Wow, what a nice arrangement. There are NO libraries at all near my house in Dubai. The ones that were there closed down... nobody wants to read. Very strange. Hopefully the new Municipality library under construction (Mankhool) will solve my problem.
That's awesome... I've been to the Zayed Central Library adjacent to Slimi Gardens, but I think it's only for university students here.
Were you able to get latest books (bestsellers, nonfiction, etc) to read?
Mrs just went hunting for it, but couldn't find the daycare centre. Any further directions, please?
I think you posted about this before and I couldn't find the post (which I am sure included a phone number)...
at the moment the library is only open on sunday and wednesday mornings, due to new regulations from the ministry to do with the daycare.
but hopefully we can return to the evening sessions soon. sorry!
directions again are right at the towayya park r/a, left at the next r/a, then the first right and upstairs in the bees kingdom daycare.
yes, we do have new releases. we recently got a very generous donation of new books still wrapped in plastic from jerboa books/magrudys!
please come along as we need the communities support. i find that people try to do things here but don't get a lot of support from the community and so it gets abandoned. let's not let that happen to the library, as it's the only one there is.
thanks
the library volunteers
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