Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Latest PLISJ issue arrives with greater content

Pakistan News & Features Services

The April-June 2014 issue (Volume 45, Number 2) of the Pakistan Library and Information Science Journal (PLISJ), a quarterly publication of the Library Promotion Bureau (LPB), Karachi, has arrived with more content and pages than previous editions.

The latest issue of the PLISJ is spread over no less than 116 pages which includes 28 pages of Urdu content. The cover of the quarterly journal looks graceful in blue while the publication of photographs of its team members as well as the contributors in four-colour has made the cover pages even more attractive. 

As usual the LPB President, Prof Dr Ghani-ul-Akram Sabzwari, who is also the Chief Editor of the PLISJ, has penned another thought-provoking editorial in which he has touched on the history of the institution he has founded and run with incredible passion for quite a few decades now.

“We have completed 44 years of the PLISJ. We have been striving hard during these years to encourage our professional friends to publish their research work in the journal. Our main objective has been to reduce dependence on foreign literature. Besides the PLISJ, we have published 67 books on LIS out of which 54 are in stock,” he noted. 

“In the PLISJ we are presenting lovely articles of our elite professionals on important topics. All the articles are interesting, inspiring and stimulating. We hope our readers will derive benefit of all these and will give their feedback as their opinions and views matter greatly to us,” he added.

The articles having been published in the latest issue of PLISJ include Non-Agricultural needs of rural Pakistanis (Dr Mumtaz Anwar and Mohammad Asif Naved), Social impact of internet (Dr Rubina Bhatti, Mah-e-Bushra and Tariq Mahmood Chauhan), Training programmes for LIS Professionals (Dr Haroon Idrees and Arif Khan), Applicability of Lotka’s law to Pakistani LIS authors (Dr Khalid Mahmood and Dr Mirza Naseer), Student-teacher relationship and its impact on academic integrity (Mohammad Shahid Soraya, Dr Aamir Hashmi and Saira Hanif Soraya), Development of health sciences libraries and medical librarianship in Pakistan (Ikram-ul-Haq and Midarullah) and Encyclopedias in Urdu language published from Pakistan (Rafat Parveen Siddiqui). 

The Urdu section has been edited by Dr Nasreen Shagufta and there are contributions from Prof Dr Nasim Fatima, Dr Mumtaz Anwar, Syed Ateeb Ahmed, Dr Amna Khatoon, Mian Mohammad Saeed, Azra Qureshi and Dr Arifa Iftikhar.

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