NCRDC Course Participants Visited CIIT (Islamabad Campus) Library

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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