Facilities for para-professional training and
professional education in library and informa.
tion work in Pakistan are described. The Uni
versity Grants Commission Curriculum for Lib
rary and Information Science has been intro
duced in all university library science depart
ments. The lack of teaching staff and profes
sional literature create serious problems. Post-
experience courses are offered through an
Anglo-Pakistani cooperation programme.
Selected Unesco documents on education and
training are listed.
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References
1.
Dr. Anis Khurshid was at this time Professor and Chairman, Library and Information Science Department, University of Karachi. While John Feather was Course Director, he was Local Co-director of the seminars in Pakistan.
2.
Smith, Inese A. and John P. Feather.Rolling from Loughborough to Lahore . Focus on International & Comparative Librarianship , Vol. 14, no. 3, 1983, 27-28.
3.
Smith, Inese A. and John P. Feather, (eds). Project reports prepared by participants of the Educational Seminar for Pakistani Academic Librarians held... in Lahore, Pakistan, 20 March-7 April 1983 . Loughborough, Department of Library and Information Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, 1984. 75 p.
4.
The programme is described in more detail in: Smith, Inese A. Professional development of Pakistani academic librarians. Pakistan Library Journal. (to be published 1985).
