LIBRARY WITH A UNIQUE STYLE …

         BY MAHA SABIR                                                                                                      

Founded in 1952 
Librarian = Malahat Kaleem Sherwani 
Total Volumes 316,000 
Microfilms 6,150
Periodicals 110,000 copies of national and foreign journals and periodicals.
Audio-Visual section Manuscripts
Other facilities 4,000 Research Reports, 20,000 documents and reports, 18,000 Vols. in seminar Libraries 

The Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library is an imposing three storey structure firmly placed in the centre of campus activities. The Dr. Mahmud Husain Library was established in 1952, when the University of Karachi itself came into being.

The library building, a modern and imposing structure in the midst of a large campus located half an hour's drive from the center of Karachi.

 The library houses 350,000 volumes dating back to the 1600s, and it became the depository of the personal book collection of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.

The library is on the upper end of the academic spectrum in Pakistan. It consists of a maze of reading rooms (6 for general purposes and another 6 for research), and enjoys independent cataloging and microfilming units as well as binding facilities and a circulation department. The microfilm section has copies of rare manuscripts from the British museum, the India Office Library and the Bodleian and Cambridge University libraries.

The position of Head Librarian is held by Professor Malahat Kaleem Sherwani, who is also the Chairperson of the Department of Library and Information Science and convener of library committee. She has been a staff member of the university since 1975 and, since her arrival at the helm of the library, has brought on new spirit and enthusiasm.

The library, a resource center and an Internet center will be linked by fiber optics as part of a first nodule that will eventually expand to each Department in the university in coming future. This ambitious project represents an investment of 25 million rupees.

      

DIGITAL LAB FOR KARACHI UNIVERSITY                                                                                                                                                                             
A digital library, set up at the University of Karachi (KU)'s Dr Mehmud Hussain Library on Monday 28 Jun, 2010, and was constructed at a cost of Rs30 million.

The digital lab has 150 P-Dual Core machines, with the computers connected to the main KU communication network using internet connectivity through a high speed fiber optic network. Students can also operate for audio and video conferencing.

This library provide, students cutting edge facility with technology which is COMMENDABLE…..