ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head> <link href="../style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <title>Library Inauguration Ceremony </title> </head> <body style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;"> <table style="width: 100%"> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-right: 9px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 9px; text-align: left; color: #ffffff; background-color: #454545;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; border-collapse: collapse"><strong><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0px; font: 16px 'Times New Roman'; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; border-collapse: collapse"> <h1 class="ha" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 12px 5px 5px 10px; color: #fff; padding-top: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif"> <span style="padding-right: 10px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial">Library Inauguration Ceremony</span></h1> </span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></td> </tr> <tr style="font-size: 12pt"> <td colspan="2" style="padding-right: 9px; padding-left: 9px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 9px; text-align: justify" valign="top"> <span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 13px"> Minister for Science and Technology Mohammad Azam Khan Swati on Saturday, 6th March 2010 inaugurated the state-of-the-art newly constructed library at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad. The library is unique in the sense that it is equipped with all the modern technology and providing various services of International standards. The library provides self check-in/check-out and drop box facilities to the library users. Research Cubical, Study Carrels are placed for the serious researchers. The library provides the researchers/faculty members, with access to the Digital Library and of the E-resources. One floor of the library is allocated for reference material. <br /> <br /> On the occasion, the minister also addressed the faculty, staff and students of the CIIT. He said that the future of any country relies on the quality of the educational infrastructure. T he minister lauded the efforts of CIIT in making progress in the field of science and technology. <br /> <br /> He called upon the students to focus on materializing the dream of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah by making Pakistan a progressed and prosperous country. With the establishment of this new state-of-the-art library, he said, the avenues of new horizons of learning are opened. <br /> <br /> The Minister spoke high of the efforts of Dr S. M. Junaid Zaidi, Rector, CIIT, Dr Imtinan Ellahi Qureshi, Executive Director, COMSATS, Dr Wille Eerula, CEO, RIDDES, Finland and Shahid Kamal, Ambassador of Pakistan to Germany for their contribution in the advancement in the research arenas of science and technology. He praised the CIIT on commencement of dual degree programs in collaboration with Lancaster University, UK and emphasized other institutions to follow this example for better education at tertiary level, particularly with the German universities. <br /> <br /> Talking about his recent visit to China, Iran, Sri Lanka and Saudi Arabia, the Minister gave an example of valued investment in the higher education sector of science and technology for enhancing their capacity.<br /> <br /> <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline"> </span></strong> </span><span style="font-size: 13px"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline"> </span></strong> </span></span> </td> </tr> <tr style="font-size: 12pt"> <td colspan="2" style="padding-right: 9px; padding-left: 9px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 9px; text-align: justify" valign="top"> <table style="width: 100%"> <tr> <td style="width: 100px"> <img src="Opening.jpg" /></td> <td style="width: 100px"> <img src="GroupPhoto.jpg" /></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr style="font-size: 12pt"> <td colspan="2" style="padding-right: 9px; padding-left: 9px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 9px; text-align: justify" valign="top"> <span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial"><a href="http://ww2.ciit-isb.edu.pk/photogallery/Pics.aspx?Catid=100" target="_blank">Click here</a> for Pictures</span></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>