PLISJ maintains its punctuality

Pakistan News & Features Services

The October-December 2013 issue (Volume 44, Number 4) of the Pakistan Library and Information Science Journal (PLISJ), a quarterly publication of the Library Promotion Bureau (LPB), Karachi, has arrived during the stipulated time to maintain its years long tradition of punctuality.

Like the preceding issue, the latest one also contains four-colour pictures of the editors as well as the contributors. The LPB President, Prof Dr Ghani-ul-Akram Sabzwari, who is also the Chief Editor of the PLISJ, has written on various issues in his thought-provoking editorial. 

He has lavished the Pakistan Library Association (PLA) with praise for having achieved the approval of the College Librarians Service Structure in the Punjab where the provincial government had issued the long awaited notification required for the implementation of proposed service structure BS-17 to BS-20 for the college librarians. 

The tour of the Chief Editor to the USA and Canada has been covered. The reports and photographs of the get-togethers of the Karachi University Library & Information Science Alumni Association (KULISAA) in Toronto have been published prominently. 

Quite a few research articles have been published in the latest issue of PLISJ as well which include LIS Marketing Approach in Libraries: A selected Literature Review (Prof Dr Kanwal Ameen and Saira Hanif), Challenges for PLA in the development of profession: A survey (Prof Dr Rubina Bhatti and Shakeel Ahmed Khan) and LIS Research: A bibliometric study of library philosophy and practice 2006-2012 (Haroon Idrees and Mohammad Anwar) besides Atiya Shahid’s detailed article on Karachi Public Library System. 

The Urdu section is equally informative with Prof Dr Nasim Fatima contributing the fourth part of her series of private libraries while Dr Nasreen Shagufta, Editor of the section, has done a detailed interview of Fozia Bano, the young librarian of the Federal Urdu University, Karachi.