Winner of PAM International
Membership Award
Nisa Bakkalbasi
I am delighted to announce Mr. Muhammad Shahid Soroya as the 2007 recipient of the PAM International Membership Award. Muhammad is currently serving as a librarian at the School of Mathematical Sciences (SMS) at Government College University in Lahore, Pakistan.
SMS was established to promote mathematics and allied sciences in
Pakistan and presently has 25 faculty members and approximately 70 Ph.D. students. In the upcoming months, Muhammad will prepare a short report on the state of scientific information in his country to be presented to the membership at the annual meeting in June 2007. He will discuss the role of library associations in the development of the library profession in Pakistan and the development of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Digital Library and its role in the promotion of research, particularly in pure sciences.
The PAM International Membership Award, first given in 1999, provides an opportunity for a librarian from the developing world to be an active member of SLA and SLA-PAM. The purpose of the IRC committee is to strengthen communication among PAM librarians worldwide through professional and personal contacts;
* To enable PAM librarians and information specialists to provide information in a timely manner;
* To promote equity of access to online resources for everyone, by informing publishers and other information providers of technological weaknesses especially in the developing world;
* To foster information exchange between SLA members and special librarians worldwide, especially those in the developing world.
For a listing of previous winners:
http://www.sla.org/division/dpam/manual/awards/pamimalist.html)
PAM thanks East View Information Services for sponsoring the 2007-2008 International Membership Award.
Please join me in welcoming Muhammad,shahidsoroya@yahoo.com, as our newest member.
