Friday, October 31, 2014

New PLISJ issue arrives with record pages

Pakistan News & Features Services

The June-September 2014 issue (Volume 45, Number 3) of the Pakistan Library and Information Science Journal (PLISJ), a quarterly publication of the Library Promotion Bureau (LPB), Karachi, is enriched with the usual high-quality stuff with another substantial increase in its thickness.

The latest issue of the PLISJ, recognized as one of the leading research journals of the country, reached the hands of its subscribers and general readers soon after the arrival of its Chief Editor, Prof Dr Ghani-ul-Akram Sabzwari, during the first week of September. 

The June-September 2014 issue of the PLISJ has many as 132 pages which includes 32 pages of Urdu content improving the record of the previous issue which was spread over 116 pages with 28 pages of having been dedicated to Urdu content. 

The cover of the quarterly journal looked as graceful as ever with the golden background which made the lettering in blue colour of the Pakistan Library and Information Science Journal appear more prominent. 

The current issue of the PLISJ has also published a comprehensive report the World Book Day webinar organized by Jumbo Publishing earlier this year. 

Prof Dr Ghani-ul-Akram Sabzwari, an ex-chairman of the University of Karachi’s Library & Information Science department, had founded the Library Promotion Bureau (LPB) in 1966 which has been publishing the PLISJ every quarter since 1968. 

“We have been publishing the PLISJ for the last 45 years on the absolute support of some of our well-wishers. During these years our professionals and library friends developed assurance and confidence in us and have continued sending their research papers for publications. Consequently we are now highly overloaded with variety of articles. There is a long queue of articles and we are totally booked until June 2015,” he wrote in the editorial.

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