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Mrs. HAYAT ALYAQOUT

Senior Teaching Assistant

Senior Teaching Assistant.

Department of Information Studies, College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University

 

Degrees and Certificates

- Master’s degree in library and information Science (MLIS), College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, September 2002- June 2004. GPA 3.97.
- B.A. in Political Science (major) and English Language and Literature (minor), College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University. (September 1998 -June 2002). GPA 3.98, MGPA 4.00.
 

Professional Experience

- Senior Teaching Assistant, Department of Information Science, College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University. (October 2021 – Current).
- Associate Teaching Assistant, Department of Information Science, (Previously Department of Library and Information Science), College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University. (December 2015 – September 2021).
- Teaching Assistant, Department of Library and Information Science, College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University. (September 2007 – November 2015).
- Head of Information and Technology Unit, College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University. (October 7th, 2009- May 2014).
- Information Researcher, Jaber Al-Ahmad Central Library, Libraries Administration, Kuwait University. (February 2005 – September 2007).

Research Interests

E-publishing and digitization. 

Publications

- Kuwaiti Commercial Publishers’ Attitudes Towards E-books. (2022, October). Published in the Journal of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, Volume 48, Issue 187, Pages 91-120. This paper’s poster won the first prize in the Scientific Poster Day, for Assistant Academic Staff in Humanities Colleges, organized by Research Sector in Kuwait University. March 2022.

-"The Views of Arab Readers on E-books: The Case of Nashiri E-publishing House". Research paper presented to The Third International Conference on Topics of Social and Human Sciences and The First Academic Association Conference of the London Centre for Research and Consultancy, February 10-12, 2014, Kuwait, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.

- Wrote a chapter about Public Libraries in the Middle East, published in "Global Library and Information Science: A Textbook for Students and Educators". 2009. Published by IFLA and K. G. Saur. ISBN: 978-3-598-22042-5.

- Statistical Analysis of LIS Resources in Two Higher Education Institutions of Kuwait. Research Paper presented to the Information Education in the Arabian Gulf Region: Status and Prospects Symposium, Kuwait, March 14th, 2007. In Addition to presenting a poster of the paper in the poster exhibit during the same event.