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PLWO A Quarterly Newsletter of Pakistan Librarians Welfare Organization Vol:05 No:01 2018 Editorial Note Time lies. Another year has begun. May it be a vintage year, and What's bring you both health and success! Welcome to the January – March issue of The Librarian Newsletter, the irst issue of 2018! Inside As the new Chief Editor, let me start by conveying my gratitude to all of you who have set up the milestones for The Librarian Seminar on Effective Use Newsletter. The librarian has played a critical role in presenting of Information Resources news and reports there by keeping library professionals informed about the latest Page 01 developments in the profession. Several improvements have already been made, and An interview with I will make many more this year in order to maintain the tradition of excellence set by Prof. Dr. Khalid Mahmood my predecessors. Page 02 In order to keep the readers widely interested and updated, we have, of course, Seminars on Effective Book Reading Skills covered and published every report submitted for this quarter and will continue the At Oxford Group same in future. Hence, I would like to take this opportunity to, again, invite the timely of Schools, Shahdara, Lahore reports and submissions from the community of Library Professionals. Page 04 Starting from this issue, we are going to add a special column on the interview of any Workshop on Citation Management renowned scholar, academician or professional. In the current issue apart from at Bahria University, Lahore workshops and seminars we have the interview of one of the most renowned scholar, Page 05 wherein, he has discussed about his life, education and career. This issue also includes the report on the personal collections of GC University Library, Lahore. I Personal Collections hope that you will enjoy reading this issue and ind it informative and above all Report in GC University useful. Library Lahore Page 06 Let me close by offering my sincere thanks to my editorial team, all of whom have volunteered to contribute to the success of this Newsletter and the efforts put in by Welcome Dinner to PLWO Volunteers them are highly appreciated. I would also thank all those who have submitted their contributions for this issue. Page 08 Professional Stories Please feel free to provide your feedback and send pertinent information with photos for the inclusion in our forthcoming issues. Page 09 With Regards Ashfaq Hussain Chief Editor THE LIBRARIAN Vol:05 No:01 2018 President Note Dear friends and colleagues, This is my elated privilege to speak to you through this year's irst issue of “The Librarian”. It's been such a pleasure for me to share that PLWO Patron Muhammad Asif Munir has published another issue of its newsletter. In this newsletter you will ind library professionals' activates including interview, trainings, Chief Editor meetings, new ideas and other themes of librarians' interest. Ashfaq Hussain Currently, we are engaged in many exciting ventures and we always look forward to better Editor opportunities for strengthening of the profession. We are extremely proud of our team Nadia Mushtaq members' outstanding achievements. I always feel proud and honoured to be amongst such a talented group of PLWO volunteers. We will persistently reach out to look for Deputy Editor Muhammad Ansar opportunities to extend our network and to connect professionals. Assistant Editor I am happy that we have started reaping fruits of reorganization of PLWO branches and Masum Ali boards. In the result of reorganization of Journal's editorial board, the PLWO journal titled “International Journal of Information Management Sciences” has been made ready in a Advisory Board short span of time and available on Pakistan Librarians Welfare Organization's Website Dr. M. Shahid Soroya (http://www.plwo.org.pk). Naushad Ghazanfar Zaheer Ahmad Similarly, new team of PLWO Newsletter is working its best to bridge the time lag and endeavouring to publish the newsletter on time. Here, I would like to pay tribute to Ms. Fozia Ahmad; former chief editor of the Newsletter for her untiring efforts to spend a lot of time for the publication despite her unprecedently busy ofice routine. I am also thankful to new editorial team of the newsletter “The Librarian” for working with rapid pace to prepare the current issue of the newsletter. Especially, Ms. Nadia Bhatt, Editor of the Newsletter for taking time from her busy schedule to review the entire content of the newsletter to make it error free. Her contribution to bring this issue in shape is praiseworthy. My special appreciations for two gentlemen who worked sellessly for this organization generally and for this publication speciically. These are Mr. Masum Ali Buttar and Mr. Muhammad Ansar. This organization is incomplete without both of them. At last, I am happy to share that keeping traditions alive PLWO is organizing its 6th annual dinner on Saturday, May 5, 2018. I hope that all of you will participate in the event. This time, we are planning to make the evening memorable by awarding life achievement award to an experienced and seasoned library professional whose efforts brought a real revolution to the profession. We love to hear suggestions, so please share your ideas! You may also consider serving on the PLWO board or one of the committees next year. Newsletter team always strive to better serve our community. If you have any thoughts to share, please email me, call me. My sincere wishes for all of you. My sincere wishes for all of you. Muhammad Asif Munir President THE LIBRARIAN Vol:05 No:01 2018 Seminar on Effective Use of Information Resources Reported by Zaheer Ahmad, Director, Read & Write Pakistan Pakistan Librarians Welfare information research skills, identify, Convener Library Affairs was the Organization (PLWO), Pakistan l o c a t e a n d u s e i n f o r m a t i o n chief guest. While addressing the Scientiic and Technological resources effectively and ethically to participants she said that such type Information Center (PASTIC) and improve their awareness of current of practical sessions are very COMSATS Institute of Information research resources, tools and necessary for the capacity building Technology (CIIT), Lahore jointly strategies. of the researchers. organized a seminar on “Effective Use of Information Resources” on Dr. Muhammad Tariq Najmi was the In the concluding remarks, Mr. March 14, 2018 at COMSATS, Lahore. resource person of the seminar and Zaheer Ahmad Secretary General More than 60 M.S./M.Phil. and Ph.D. conducted a detailed session on Pakistan Librarians Welfare students, librarians and researchers effective use of information Organization (PLWO) thanked the attended the seminar. resources, searching skills and use of resource person, Chief Guest and HEC digital library. In this interactive Guest of Honor for sparing their In the opening remarks, Mr. Ali Raza session, he shared the latest cutting- valuable time for the event. He also Khan, Deputy Director (STI) PASTIC edge techniques about the effective acknowledged the services of and guest of honor of the seminar information retrieval techniques COMSATS and PASTIC for organizing shed light on the importance and and how a digital library can successful and well representative need of the seminar. He said that facilitate them in this regard. He also seminar. He said that PLWO will information is crucial to the learning conducted a mock session to answer continue organizing such events for process and scholars explore the different queries raised by the the capacity building of the various sources to meet their participants. researchers and information information needs. He was of the professionals. view that such seminars help the Dr. Rubina Farooq, Chairperson students, scholars and information Department of Chemistry, Acting professionals to improve their Head Pharmacy Department and 01 THE LIBRARIAN Vol:05 No:01 2018 An Interview With PROF. DR. KHALID MAHMOOD Department of Information Management, University of the Punjab, Lahore President, Pakistan Library Association (PLA), Punjab President, Pakistan Library Automation Group (Pak LAG) Prof. Dr. Khalid Mahmood is an ambitious, PLWO: How did you come to librarianship? Was it by chance or energetic and renowned personality of library by choice? and information science (LIS) in Pakistan and Dr. Kkalid: The ield of library science was my personal choice, overseas. He has completed his HEC sponsored although I got admission in Journalism and Islamic Studies as post-doctoral research at Department of well, but I preferred to join Librarianship. Information Studies, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS), PLWO: When and how did you start your professional career? Dr. Khalid: I started my career in 1989 from Phoolnagar University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), College as a librarian. After that I joined Govt. Degree College, USA (2010-2011). He did his masters (1989) and Sheikhupura as a librarian. Then I joined Quaid-e-Azam PhD (2004) in LIS from the University of the Library, Lahore as a librarian and inally in 1993, I joined PU Punjab, Lahore. He also completed masters in Department of Information Management (DOIM). Islamic Studies and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the same university. He completed his PLWO: Please tell us about your family? Postgraduate Diploma in Library Management Dr. Khalid: My father had passed away before my birth. We from Haagse Hogeschool, Netherlands in 1996. were three brothers and two sisters. I am married and I have four kids. Publications PLWO: Your favourite personality? Cited by All Since 2013 Dr. Khalid: My favourite personality is our PROPHET Citations 2007 1404 MUHAMMAD (PBUH). In librarianship Dr. Jalaluddin Haider h-index 24 19 and Mr. Muhammad Asghar are my favourite personalities. i10-index 51 36 Among my students Ms.