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Int’l moot on libraries, information management begins
Int’l moot on libraries, information management begins


LAHORE: (Tuesday, November 10, 2015): Punjab University Department of Information Management is organizing International Conference on Information Management & Libraries (ICIML) and the inauguration session will be held on Wednesday November 11 at 9am at Dr Pervaiz Hassan Environmental Law Centre. Punjab Education Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan will be chief guest on the occasion. In her press statement, Chairperson Prof Dr Kanwal Amin said that the Department was celebrating 100 years of leadership in library and information management education in Asia. She said the general theme of the conference is “Looking Back, Moving Forward” in which more than 500 participants from Asia, Middle East, Europe and USA will be in attendance. She said eighty authors will contribute 57 presentations including 3 key note speeches, 13 invited papers, 15 full papers, 9 short papers, 7 best practices and 10 short presentations (PechaKuchas). She said the contributors would be library professionals, educators, researchers, students and decision makers. The department also organized pre-conference workshops on Tuesday on different library and information management topics. Dr. Zaheer Ahmed Babar, Director General Public Libraries, Punjab was the chief guest on the occasion.