NCRDC Course Participants Visited CIIT (Islamabad Campus) Library |
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NCRDC Course Participants Visited CIIT (Islamabad Campus) Library More than 40 participants, comprising mostly of library and information professionals from all over Pakistan, visited CIIT (Islamabad Campus) library on May 20, 2010. AHK National Centre for Rural Development is organizing this course with a theme of Role of ICT in Library Management Skills and their visit was part of this training course. Raja Muhammad Ibrahim (Senior Librarian) gave a comprehensive lecture on Users Education and Role of Library Professionals. Describing it a very important part of library profession, he lay emphasis on role of library professional in educating library users about information seeking skills in this rapidly changing information environment. Briefly describing about planning, organizing and implementing user education programs, he said, that users education programs should aim to make all users aware of the information resources available, both directly in the library and from external sources. Before that he gave a brief presentation about the services, objectives, future plans and role of CIIT (Islamabad Campus) library. Different sections of the library were also shown to visitors where they were briefed about the role and functions of each section by the section heads. |
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