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PSU Central Library

Orientation

By: Mr. Shakil Ahmad Invasion
Research and Web Services Section-Central Library
To continue its information literacy and of getting the membership card (library Through
instruction activities, the PSU Central barcode) and using the self-check
Library – Men Campus organized its machine to borrow and return books Language
orientation program for academic year were elaborated.
20182019- from September 17, 2018 to • Participants were introduced to the Author: Sara Zamrik SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 / TRANSLATIONTIMES456
October 1, 2018. Faculty and students diversity of print resources available in
from all academic programs were the library. They learned how to search
invited to attend the program. 15 faculty these resources using library’s online
members with 349 students attended the catalog (OPAC). “To have another language is to possess a not have a work permit, and the prohibition
program. The orientation sessions were • Participants were introduced to the second soul” Charlemagne. of any teacher of the Association of Algerian
conducted in the G-C01 auditorium in PYP online resources of the library. Training Muslim Ulema from teaching in licensed
building (Building 105). Mr. Shakil Ahmad, was provided to access, search and We can spend a lifetime counting the schools until they obtain an education
Research Services & Web Librarian at PSU download from subscribed Saudi Digital number of researches conducted on license submitted by the authorities.
Central Library – Men Campus conducted Library databases using off-campus and language speakers, proving that a different
the program. The following were the on-campus access facilities. Subject language leads to a different personality. A 3 / Closing mosques and preventing citizens
contents of program: and resources coverage of subscribed person`s identity is their language, and their from visiting them, whether to learn the
• The participants of the orientation databases was explained. language is their identity. Very few people Arabic language, or jurisprudence and
are aware of that! Giving up your language doctrine as mosques were, in the past, the
program were introduced to the available • Searching techniques and strategies are to learn international languages is not a way basic centers of education.
study spaces, service hours and reading elaborated to conduct the searches and of civilization. It is a way of giving up one`s
facilities at Central Library – Men Campus. retrieve the required research papers and history, culture, persona and much beyond 4 / Forcing all those who want to attend
• Students and faculty were introduced to books. that! I cannot count the number of times I schools to learn French.
information literacy, research, documents • The participants were introduced to encountered Arab people whose Arabic is
delivery, interlibrary loan, current Central Library’s presence on social unbelievably poor, or ones that decided to
awareness and text books services of the media. shift their attention to English because it is
Central Library. what the market needs. Has it ever crossed
• Library provides computing facilities It is worth mentioning that in addition to your mind that this could be a form of
these scheduled orientation programs,
to its users. Participants of the program Central Library organizes tailor made invasion?!
learned how to use the computers, orientation and training sessions
printers and scanners in library. throughout the year to fulfil research, We are letting other languages occupy the
• Students and faculty were introduced teaching and educational needs of PSU world, while ours is slipping away, taking
everything that identifies our nations with it.
to lending services of Central Library. community. Anyone interested in such
Participants were got acquainted with programs can contact the Central Library It is as if Arabic is hanging from a cliff, and yet Not surprisingly, a new generation started
their borrowing privileges. The processes at following details: instead of holding on to it, we are loosening emerging with a different identity: the
our hold! Does it sound too unrealistic to be
true? What if I tell you that we are about to French identity. The country began to
relive a story that Algeria has already gone gradually collapse, every inch of its entity
through?! started fading away, from its language to
its culture and customs, even its religious
beliefs.

Now, despite Algeria`s dependence more
than fifty years ago, French is an integral
part of their language next to Arabic. It has
eaten the tongues of its people, especially in
the North where it concurred the throne of
education and communication.
“But why?” some people might ask, and the
answer is: why fight the enemy when you
During the French occupation on Algeria,
the 8th of March 1938 saw the start of can make them morph into the creatures
the smartest invasion in history: language you want?! When you can make them a part
invasion. Camille Chautemps, the Prime of you: Arab on the outside, French on the
Minister of France, issued a decree that inside! No wonder people say: “If you want
prohibited the use of Arabic in Algeria, to kill a nation, kill its language”.
considering it a foreign language. The decree Federico Fellini once said: “A different
stipulated the following: language is a different vision of life”. If you let
1/ Preventing the Association of Algerian go of your language, you lose your identity,
Muslim Ulema from operating without a your culture, your history, your everything,
license, which was never given to them period. So, hold on to your language that is
despite the numerous requests. hanging from that cliff, and keep on holding
on to it as strong as you can, for as long as
2/ The closure of all Arabic schools that did you can, and never let go. Just never let go!