General Supervisor

appreciation and sentiments, enables acquiring new linguistic and stylistic
expressions, and enables benefiting from the intellectual legacy made by
the minds of scientists, researches, and others. Reading is also a tool that can
upgrade or develop the individual to reach the highest levels of knowledge,
education and modern civilization, as in reading, the individual can achieve
his/her ultimate goals and his/her highest precious aspirations. Not only does
reading have an impact on the individual’s life, but it also have an impact on
the society at large. So, the massive explosion of knowledge, represented
in its steady flowing, made it very difficult for the educational and scientific
institutions to absorb it and so catching up with it requires having a reading
community; rather, a community that is quite passionate about reading so
that it can keep abreast up with the accelerating technological and scientific
progress.
The Advantages of the Project for the Saudi Community
The leading educational project may have the following possible advantages
for the individuals of the Saudi community:
Immunizing them –through educated and insightful reading- against
misleading or twisted views that clash with our Islamic Share’ah and our
traditions and customs.
11. Cementing the ties between the Saudi individuals and their homeland,
and reinforcing their patriotism through reading the national intellectual
heritage and through educating themselves on the sacrifices made by the
state-personalities in building this great Kingdom.
12. Familiarizing people with the traditions, customs, and the latest in other
cultures, i.e., reading can be a means to promote peace and corporation
among individuals and societies.
13. Broadening people’s intellectual horizons, as it gives them a window on the
world and what is going around them, and gives them the ability to keep
abreast up with the current time and its huge scientific breakthroughs and
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different civilizational achievements. This can be done through reading
books translated from other languages.
14. Assisting people to deepening their encyclopedic knowledge, polishing
their intellectuality, and building outstanding personalities. This would
enable individuals to possess the ability for effective adaptation with their
community in the different scientific, social, and vocational fields.
15. Helping individuals to maintain ties with the genuine heritage of their
culture, and updating them with the latest advancements and innovations
the human mind produced in the different cultures.
16. Assisting individuals to have fun and pleasure, as reading can be the best
and easiest way for killing free time in a useful manner.
17. Encouraging them, especially children, to become library-users, be it
public or private library, and to benefit from their programs and different
activities.
The Activities of the Project
In the context of materializing the goals of the project, a number of programs
and activities has been launched as to stimulate those interested in reading to
interact and cooperate with those in charge of the project, in order to actualize
the sought goals. The following are the main activities that were launched
over the last period of time:
Free Reading Festival
The Free Reading Festival was organized many times at the headquarter of the
Public Library of King Abdul Aziz (Al-Murabba’ branch), as to pave the way for
organizing similar festivals all over the Kingdom, with the aim of achieving the
following goals:
1. Creating interest in students for free reading.
2. Familiarizing students with the importance of reading in one’s life and in
the community where he/she lives.
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