DIGITAL LIBRARY IN MULTAN
Dr.Ahmed Jan Khan Vice Chancellor on LUMS University inaugurated the Digital Information centre in the library and told ,"we have provided journals from1880 to update to this library and all book so that People of Multan could complete informations and knowledge at their door step.Addressing the inaugural ceremony Dr.Bruce Lawrence professor of Islamic learning from Duke University said Libraries are established for the systematic collection, organization, preservation and dissemination of knowledge and information. It is very important for man to preserve and maintain the valuable knowledge and information contained in the books and documents because we want to preserve our knowledge and wisdom for the coming generations. By preserving the documents in a library this knowledge can be made available to others so that they can benefit from it. Establishment of libraries is not a new concept. The oldest library dates to around 2700 years ago in Sennacherib's Palace in Nineveh which shows how long ago the concept of leaving a piece of your wisdom behind started being formed into the organized collection to preserve the work.He said that User demand is ever increasing and putting a great pressure on the librarians. Therefore, there is an imperative need for the modernization of libraries in order to keep pace with the modern times. The new challenges in the field of Library and Information Science can be met by adopting the process of digitization and networking. In the present age the Librarians have to face many problems due to the limitations of time and space. User satisfaction is the main objective of a good library. It cannot be achieved without adopting the modern tools and techniques rendered available by the modern technologies available in the field of Information and telecommunication. These developments have led to the creation of Digital and Virtual Libraries, which have great advantages over the traditional libraries. Therefore, digital libraries are becoming popular due to the advantages and facilities, which are offered by them to their users.Man's quest for knowledge has led to the creation and accumulation of tremendous amount of information. This quest for knowledge knows no bounds and limits and is never satisfied. It has continued since the dawn of civilization to the modern age. This hard-earned knowledge and information is valuable for the entire mankind and therefore liable to be preserved. With the invention of paper man has been able to convey this knowledge to others by writing books. Thousands of manuscripts have been written by the wise men of the earlier times but many of them were destroyed due to the lack of proper means of preservation.Prof. Dr.Ahmed Jan Durrani said that he was a son of this soil and he had tried his utmost to return to my homeland. He greeted Shamim Khan and Nauman Khan for their contribution in modernisation of this library.He also praised the role of Dr.AShiq Muhammad Khan Durrani former Vice Chancellor of Bahauddin Zakariya University, Faisal Balouch and Junaid Shafqat and Dr.Muhammad Ramzan Chief Librarian of LUMS for establishing the Digital centre.Dr.AShiq Durrani said that Staff of this library was passing through severe economic stress because they are drawing only Rs.6000/- PM since long.While Government had increased the salaries/ wages of even unskilled workers to Rs.7000. but we are unable to meet our expenditures.He urged upon the philanthropists to contribute for this library as maximum as possible.
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