Wednesday, December 15, 2021

NLA official chairs Koha session

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

An Executive Committee member of the National Library Association (NLA), Liaquat Ali Rahoo, presented a paper besides chairing the session as koha experts of Pakistan brainstormed on the subject of ‘Challenges, prospects and way forward of Open Source Software Implementation in Pakistani Libraries’ recently. 

Koha is an active Open Source library management software project facilitating voluntary effort of programmers and library professionals. Library professionals are the end users of Koha and their involvement is vital at various stages of development of the software development. The Koha user community has been growing  and the project offered variety of non-developer roles for library professionals. 

The NLA President, Syed Muzaffar Ali Shah, praised the efforts of Liaquat and congratulated him on conducting the session superbly besides presenting his own paper on one of the relevant of all subjects to the librarians’ community. 

Having joined the NLA in 2018, the Hyderabad-based Liaquat is working at the Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro. Having done MLIS in 2006 he is currently a PhD scholar. More than 40 papers of his have already been published in various journals.

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