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‘In Search of Readers’ is a compilation of Moinuddin Khan’s articles, letters, reviews and bibliographical essays on the subject of libraries, books, readership habits and related issues having been published in one of Pakistan’s leading newspapers over a period of three decades.
The book, spread over 260 pages, has been published by the Library Promotion Bureau (LPB), Karachi, which has continued to patronize the scholastic activities since its inception in 1966. It is priced Rupees 250 per copy.
“I pay my profound reverence to Moinuddin Khan Sahib for presenting such a wonderful panorama that if our administrators, educationalists and planners peep deeply in the pages of this book will definitely be convinced and swayed to accelerate library development in formal and informal education of our country,” Prof Dr Ghani-ul-Akram Sabzwari, Founder President, LPB, remarked in the foreword to the books.
Moinuddin Khan, a veteran library scientist in his early nineties, has dedicated the book to his brother Prof Ziauddin Khan, one of the pioneers of the study of public administration in India and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Simla, where he had breathed his last in harness on the Teacher’s Day in 1977.
“To Azra Qureshi, a concerned colleague and a co-worker of long standing, goes the credit for convincing me that a book culled from daily press would serve a vital purpose in sustaining the interest of the general reader and in reviving man’s abiding faith in book and its resting place, the library,” he acknowledged.
“I had long recognized the need to collect these scattered writings for the benefit of students, faculty and practitioners of library science in Pakistan, as this is a neglected field in the country. Moinuddin Khan wrote constantly in newspapers to create awareness among the government functionaries and the public at large. He has written more than 100 articles on varied subjects but this is his first volume of selected pieces on librarianship,” Azra Qureshi revealed.
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