During 2020,the Covid 19 has united the world in a number of ways.May the year ending with feelings of both gloom and hope give way,to a new year full of health,joy, and well-being for all.

 

 COMSATS' Centre of Excellence in

@Kaznuofficial, opens Biomedicine #Research Centre to promote R&D and capacity-building of young #scientists in disciplines including #biomedicine, #robotics, and #bioinformatics.

 

 Admissions - (Spring 2021)

 A Delegation of National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC) visited the Library Information Service CUI Lahore on November 11, 2020. Dr. Muhammad Tariq, Incharge library welcomed and briefed the delegates about library resources and services. The Delegation of NCEAC also visited different sections of the library and admired the services and infrastructure that are being provided to the users.

 Birthday Celebrations of Miss Nasira Munir

On behalf of all library staff Wish you a very happy birthday to Miss. Nasira Munir

 Birthday Celebrations

On behalf of all library staff Wish you a very happy birthday to Mr. Jahanzaib and Mr. Akhtar Abbas

 A group photo of the participants of The 4th Meeting of the Syndicate of COMSATS University Islamabad which was chaired by Rector CUI ,Prof. Dr. Muhammad T. Afzal

 I am pleased to share that one more departmental library has been established. This time, we have developed the Management Science Library. This library is established to cater the information and knowledge need of Management Science faculty and students.  This library has all the information resources related to the management science field includes books, journals, magazines, and company reports. To access digital resources, the library also has new systems for library users. 

This departmental library was inaugurated by worthy Director Dr. Syed Asad Hussian, along with Head of Department, Senior Faculty of Management Science Department, Convener Library Affairs Committee, Add. Registrar, Add. Treasurer, Library Incharge, and Senior Library Staff Members. The inauguration was held on October 23, 2020. 

This was not possible without the support of worthy Director Dr. Syed Asad Hussain, Rana Idrees sb - Head of Management Science Department, Muhammad Afzal Baig - Senior Manager Works, Dr. Muhammad Asif - Convener Library Affairs Committee and my enthusiastic library team. Thanks all.

 

 Mah Rabi-ul-Awwal Mubarak:

 LIBRARY BULLETIN

June-August:Volume No: 8 Issue: 12: ISSN: 2309-5032 has been published by Library information Services CUI-Lahore. For the full bulletin, please click here https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=librarycuilahore&set=a.3529454090446190

Birthday Celebrated Dr.Muhammad Tariq. Library Staff CUI Lahore Celebrated the the birthday party of Dr Muhammad Tariq dated September 28-2020 everyone wished him many many happy returns of the day may God bless him more.

 ORIENTATION............ FALL, 2020

Library staff presented orientation sessions in library and welcomed the new students in library on 20th September, 2020 on Sunday

LIBRARY BULLETIN, MAY 2020

LIBRARY BULLETIN
Volume No: 8 Issue: 11 ISSN: 2309-5032 has been published by Library information Services CUI-Lahore. 
For the full bulletin, please click https://web.facebook.com/pg/Library-Information-Services-Comsats-University-Islamabad-Lahore-Campus-104357199633145/photos/?tab=album&album_id=3002615496473953

 #Read_Enjoy #online_Services #library #LIS_CUI_Lahore #Covid_19 #Bulletin

Meet the Librarian:

During the current situation of Covid-19, the Library Information Services, CUI Lahore is enthusiastically providing online services to its users. To enhance digital literacy and to provide relevant information, we conducted series of training session in different areas like "library resources and services", "digital resources" and "how to avoid plagiarism". No of faculty members and students attend these online sessions. We took all the steps to bridge the gap between uses and information.
Now we are going to arrange a session entitled "Meet the Librarian" on Wednesday May 20, 2020 at 11. 00 am through Zoom Platform. Where all library staff will be available to respond your questions and queries.

World Book and Copyright Day

WHY READING IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN EVER!

More than ever, at a time where most of the schools around the world are closed and people are having to limit their time spent outside, the power of books should be leveraged to combat isolation, reinforce ties between people, expand our horizons, while stimulating our minds and creativity. 

During the month of April and all year round, it is critical to take the time to read on your own or with your children. It is a time to celebrate the importance of reading, foster children's growth as readers and promote a lifelong love of literature and integration into the world of work.

Through reading and the celebration of World Book and Copyright Day, 23 April, we can open ourselves to others despite distance, and we can travel thanks to imagination. From April 1st to 23rd, UNESCO will share quotes, poems and messages to symbolize the power of books and encourage reading as much as possible. By creating a sense of community through the shared readings and the shared knowledge, readers around the world can connect and mutually help curb loneliness. 

In such circumstances, we invite students, teachers, readers from around the world as well as the book industry and library services to testify and express their love for reading. We encourage you to share this positive message with others through #StayAtHome(link is external) and #WorldBookDay(link is external).

There are also materials for you to use to help engage all communities of readers, individuals and institutions. Whether you want to print and stick them on walls, share them on social media or publish on your website, it helps a lot! Download our communication toolkit here(link is external).

The more people we can reach, the more people may be helped.

Online Training Session

Library Information Services cui Lahore going to organize an online training session for faculty, staff and students via ZOOM. Details of zoom please see the attached flyer. you are requested please join us.

CUI Online Services

Keeping in view the problem regarding off campus non availability of HEC resources and to facilitate faculty, research scholars and students engaged in online classes to download their academic material, Library Information Services CUI Lahore has designed a special Broucher of selected free databases of books, journal articles, dissertation/theses.
You are requested to spread this information among your students and let us know if you need some further information in this context.

COVID-19 Self Care: Tips From The World Health Organization

"We can feel mentally better if we are as physically well as possible," Aiysha Malik, a psychologist with the World Health Organization, told the news conference.

Malik's tips for self-care include:

• Eat healthy foods
• Stay physically active
• Get regular sleep and rest
• Create a sense of structure and routine in daily life
• Connect socially with friends and family, while maintaining physical distance

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/26/822114301/covid-19-self-care-tips-from-the-world-health-organization

Stay Home, Stay Save, save Lives and enjoy online services

Be DIGITAL

As per vision of the worthy Director, the library is ready to play its effective role in current situation of Covid-19. During online academic activities, the library will try to provide information and knowledge resources to all our valued library uses includes Faculty and staff. The library users can send us the email to get the library services. We (inshAllah), will get back to you within 24 hours, with positive response. Following are the specified tasks and the concern email addresses.

Services	Library Staff	eMail address
Availability of Full Text Books	Ms. Nasir Munir	nmunir@cuilahore.edu.pk
Availability of Full Text Articles	Mr. Naveed Siddique	nsiddique@cuilahore.edu.pk
Plagiarism Check through Turnitin	Ms. Fatima Usman	fatimausman@cuilahore.edu.pk
Circulation queries	Mr. Atiq / Mr. Akhtar	atiqrehman@cuilahore.edu.pk / akhtarabbas@cuilahore.edu.pk
Acquisition queries	Fatima Usman / Raiqa Pervaiz	fatimausman@cuilahore.edu.pk / raiqa@cuilahore.edu.pk
Reference / General Library Queries	Muhammad Ishtiaq / Muhammad Asim Mushtaq	mishtiaq@cuilahore.edu.pk / asimmushtaq@cuilahore.edu.pk

The following links are important for our valued users.

Resources	Link
CUI Library Material	https://ciit.insigniails.com/Library/Home?LibraryID=0002&Language=English
CUI M.Phil / PhD Thesis	http://dspace.cuilahore.edu.pk/xmlui/
Full Text Books	http://dlib.cuilahore.edu.pk/ (Access through VPN)
Library website	https://lahore.comsats.edu.pk/library/

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  The library users can also send all type of queries on library email address i.e. librarycuilahore@cuilahore.edu.pk
• For any complaint, suggestion and comments, please the uses can contact library Incharge through email i.e. tariqnajmi@cuilahore.edu.pk

Stay home, stay safe and "Be DIGITAL"

5 Tips for Making the Most of Social Media as an Academic Librarian

Aino Ahoniemi

While social media may be a fixture in your personal life, you may not be capitalizing on all it has to offer as an easy and cost-effective tool for communicating with your library users and beyond.

Here are five tips for maximizing what you and your library can get out of various social media platforms.

1. Keep profile information fresh

Make sure the details on your profile are correct and the profile picture is up to date and cropped correctly on your profile. For your library’s social media, double-check opening times (if applicable) and contact information. This signals to your patrons or other potential audiences that the rest of the content on the account is also likely to be up-to-date, and that you are making an effort to communicate through social media platforms. The standard profile features can also be used creatively to get information out there: if your library is hosting an event, putting up a promotional banner as the header image on your profile or a pinned Tweet on Twitter is an easy way to get the word out.

2. Follow and use hashtags

Hashtags connect your content to the larger conversation and help you reach the people you want to reach, while also allowing you to read what others are posting about different topics. See the latest conversation happening around #OpenScience and share your views on why #LibrariesMatter. Can’t travel to an interesting conference or talk? Follow the event hashtag and live vicariously through other people! And of course, no one understands #LibrarianProblems like your fellow librarians. You might also want to create a hashtag for your library and encourage patrons to post library-related questions and comments under that tag.

3. Who to follow

Social media is, of course, all about being social, but it’s equally important to make sure you only follow people and organizations who actually bring value to your newsfeed-scrolling activities. To ensure that your newsfeed is always filled with relevant content, follow publishers (@WileyLibINFO on Twitter for the latest updates from Wiley’s librarian resources), colleagues, conferences, university departments, newspapers, NGOs, and even other libraries to get a sense of what they are doing. Think beyond your own interests and figure out what your audience might find useful or interesting.

4. Sharing is caring

Think of what might interest the target audiences of your personal or library accounts and make a point to share content that’s relevant to those interests. Your librarian colleagues might be interested in an article about changing library spaces and the students at your institution might benefit from you retweeting some key announcements from the university. Take note of unique and interesting ideas and content pieces online and pass them on! Sharing or retweeting a post also lets its creator know that you appreciate their content and find it useful.

5. Teach what you know

Social media can help students and researchers keep up to date on relevant academic topics, promote their research, and network with people in their fields. As an information professional, you can support them in making the most of these platforms by sharing your knowledge and strategies with them. Consider hosting a social media workshop, or posting tips on social media for your patrons to learn from.

How do you use social media to promote your library? What are your favorite tips for mastering the various platforms? Let us know in the comments bellow or tweet us @WileyLibinfo!

Library Bulletin VOLUME NO: 8 ISSUE 09 ISSN: 2309-5032

Five tips for better faculty-librarian communication and collaboration

By Bruce Rosenstein 

Effective communication and collaboration between librarians and faculty sounds great in theory. But in practice it's not always so easy. Fortunately, some recent articles give great guidance on how to get the most out of this relationship, and boost student success in the bargain.

Following these tips on strengthening this relationship should make your work more rewarding and increase your sense of connection:

1.                  Take the initiative. Librarians must not wait for faculty to originate ideas about how to collaborate, but rather should actively seek out ways to work together. They should learn about what has worked elsewhere, and see how it can be applied.  Sometimes, faculty-generated ideas and requests aren't particularly helpful or useful. In "Not at your service: building genuine faculty‐librarian partnerships," Yvonne Nalani Meulemans and Allison Carr reject short-term, simplistic solutions that do not lead to lasting learning. This means librarians should engage faculty in a true dialogue (more as equals than as service providers).

2.               Seize opportunities. It's clear that librarians must take the initiative in showing how their skills apply beyond the four walls of the library. In their provocative article, Meulemans and Carr describe librarian presentations to new faculty in multiple workshops throughout the academic year at their institution, California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM). These replaced an earlier, 30-minute fall-only format that was meant to "sell" an instruction program. Among other things, the new program addresses "misperceptions and assumptions" faculty members may have about how students conduct research assignments at the school. These include such areas as realizing some students aren't aware that they can come to the library for help, and that sending students on a tour of the physical library can be counterproductive.

3.               Be open-minded. There are multiple ways that librarians can work with faculty to contribute both in-person and virtually. For instance, Starr Hoffman's "Embedded academic librarian experiences in online courses: Roles, faculty collaboration, and opinion" examines how librarians at six different institutions in the United States handled their online embedded role. The librarians generally reported positive interactions with faculty, even those who were wary at first of librarian involvement. Hoffman was at University of North Texas in Denton, Texas when she wrote the article, and is now a librarian at Columbia University in New York City.

"Faculty‐librarian collaboration in improving information literacy of educational opportunity program students" discusses how librarians and faculty teamed up to teach basic information literacy skills to "socio-economically disadvantaged students" at Rider University, in New Jersey. The article was written by librarians (Ma Lei Hsieh and Sharon Yang) and faculty (Susan McManimon) at the school. "For many years," the authors point out, "librarians at the Moore Library have worked closely with the Communication and journalism faculty on incorporating information literacy (IL) skills into the Speech Communication course to help students build a solid foundation of research skills for their academic work."

4.               Be purpose-driven. Collaboration and communication are used not for their own sake, but for the ultimate purpose of successful student learning. In "Communicating the library: librarians and faculty in dialogue," Peter Brophy believes that "academic libraries are in the business of human learning rather than in the information business."  It's not necessarily a matter of librarians vs. faculty in who is viewed as more important by students and others. He writes of today's overall "battleground for influence" in dealing with data and information. Brophy (of the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK) points to potential marginalization for librarians unless they can clearly articulate the value they add to teaching and research.

5.               Break down silos. In theory, everyone understands that silos (whether representing the faculty or library) are dangerous and can obstruct success. Yet it's easy to fall into a silo mentality. Librarians and faculty working together represent a productive way to break out for the benefit of students. In "Librarians and faculty collaboration – partners in student success," Bruce E. Massis explains how faculty and librarians working jointly can develop a targeted selection of trusted resources for first-year college students. From his vantage point at Columbus State Community College, in Columbus, Ohio, he writes of the need for a "critical path for ensuring a vibrant and robust collaborative environment."

The years ahead for academic institutions and their libraries are likely to be even more turbulent and uncertain than today.  As the future of teaching, learning, and research becomes more nuanced and complex, librarians are better off being perceived as part of the solution, not as part of the problem.