NLA President warmly greeted at MUET

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi 

(Pakistan News & Features Services)

The President of the National Library Association (NLA), Syed Muzaffar Ali Shah, was warmly greeted by the librarian and support staff during his visit to the Central Library of the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET) at Jamshoro on September 29. 

The NLA President was escorted to different sections of the library where he was briefed about the recent initiatives aimed at providing greater facilities to the university students as well as the faculty members. Liaquat Ali Rahoo, Member, NLA Executive Committee, was also present on the occasion. 

Gul Lakho, who is the incharge of the MUET Library & Online Information Centre, Jamshoro, formally thanked the NLA President for squeezing time to visit their campus. 

“We have always held the librarians working in various institutions all over Sindh in very high esteem and we keep acknowledging their contributions for the cause of the profession of librarianship. It has been a privilege coming over to the MUET’s Jamshoro campus and I am highly impressed with the facilities at its Central Library which also has features of Online Information Centre,” Muzaffar Ali Shah complimented. 

“The NLA leadership is planning to hold many more events in the coming months all over the country and we look forward to organizing some of them in the interior of Sindh as well with the objective of bringing people closer to libraries and books,” the NLA President assured.