Growing competition in higher education and Information communication technologies is posing a pressure on universities and resultantly on their libraries as well. Academic libraries need to be innovative for meeting the new vision mission of higher education. Hence, innovation management in the university libraries is the need of the hour. However, there is a lack of research-based studies on innovation management in Pakistan. The purpose of this study is to ascertain the scenario of innovation management in university libraries of Pakistan. In particular, it seeks to investigate the importance, characteristics of innovation, current management practices, the barriers, and supporting factors that stimulate innovation. The study would also be useful for other developing countries of Asia because some other countries of Asian region have same type of social, economic and cultural infrastructure. This study adopted sequential mixed methods research design based on quantitative data collection, followed by qualitative data collection. In the first phase, websites of all 183 universities were examined using list of 40 innovations prepared by the Jantz (2013). The purpose of websites review was twofold: firstly to examine the status of adoption of innovations, and secondly, to draw sample cases for further investigation. The libraries possessing at least three similar innovation as listed by Jantz (2013) was ranked innovative and libraries with two or less were ranked traditional libraries. Twenty university libraries: ten traditional, and ten more innovative than those were selected purposively. The selected libraries were observed for innovation in the physical environment. Head librarians of selected libraries were interviewed to learn about their views on innovation management in their libraries. v The results of the website review indicated that 143 out of 183 university libraries did not possess any innovation as listed in Jantz (2013). Only 16% of the university libraries managed some listed innovations. The libraries categorized innovative possessed a better physical environment than the traditional category libraries.The results of semi- structured interviews of library leaders demonstrated that the respondents from both categories of libraries considered innovation as most important and defined the characteristics of innovation as close to the ones mentioned in the literature. The study found that the management styles of both types of library leader were represented as ‗collaborative‘, ‗consultative‘ and ‗democratic‘. However, the leaders of the innovative category library implemented formal strategies to manage innovations. This was missing in the traditional libraries. A range of successful projects (3-14) were found in the innovative libraries and traditional library leaders exhibited a minimal number (1-2) of such projects. According to the library leaders, budget shortage, a lack of staff, a lack of training, skills/knowledge, shortage of space, resistance to change, lack of leadership qualities, lack of incentive/reward/recognition, fear of failure, vision of higher authorities, non supportive attitude, and the unavailability of a library culture in the society were the barriers in adopting innovations. An overwhelming majority of the respondents ranked technology as a major force. Positive qualities of the leaders like vision and affective planning, competent and knowledgeable staff members, incentives rewards, appreciation, trainings, seminars and socialization with professionals, professional organizations, demands of users, higher authorities including vice chancellors, the Higher Education Commission, library and information science schools etc. were considered as supportive factors in bringing innovations. vi The study found that professionals can help scholars and researchers to learn the use of databases, and research software. However, there was no formal practice to facilitate the scholarly communication i.e., conversion of print journals to the electronic format with the cooperation of editors of research journals and preserving, archiving and managing the research output of the organization.Users group of libraries were found to be the same as in the past like students of all levels, faculty, researcher scholars and staff. No new group, like editors of research journals were involved with the library professional to digitalize the research contents into digital format. At the end of study, all library leaders were found optimistic for the future of university libraries by adopting the useful innovations.
وُلدت بروین شاکر في بیتِ عزِ وشرفٍ وأصل أجدادھا من الھند، وھي من بیتِ علم وثقافۃ وشعر وأدب، فقد تعلّم جد الشاعرۃ (پروین شاکر) السید أبو الحسن في (پٹنہ) بتنہ في مسجدِ شمس الھُدیٰ[1]، وکان لہُ ثمانیۃ أولادٍ وبنتان، وکان والد بروین شاکر أصغر أولادہِ، وھو شاکر حسین، وکان یحب الشعر منذ صغرہ، ثم انتقل شاکر حسین من بتنہ إلی کراتشي، یبحث عن مستقبل رائعٍ، ثمّ تزوج بفتاۃٍ إسمھا أفضل النساء وھي والدۃ بروین شاکر[2]۔
ولادتها
ولدت لسید شاکر حسین إبنتُہ الأولی في 12 مارس 1950م التي سماھا نسرین[3]، وفي 24 نوفمبر 1952م ولدت ابنتہُ الثانیۃ والتي سُمیت ب (پروین بانو)[4]، وبعدھا نسبتاً إلی أبیھا سمیت ب(پروین شاکر) وأسمھا في شھادۃ الماجستیر (پروین بیگم)[5]، وأھلھا کانوا یسمونھا بالمحبۃ والدلع ب(پارو). تقول ھي بنفسھا أن (پارو)، و (پارا) أسماء الدلع والدلال کانوا أھلی یسمونی بھا (Nick Name)[6]۔
تعلیمها
کان تعلیم بروین شاکر الإبتدائی في(حي الرضویۃ) في (المدرسۃ الإسلامیۃ) في کراتشي مع شقیقتھا نسرین، أمّا بروین فکانت طالبۃ مجتھدۃ منذ طفولتھا، فقد سُجّلت في المدرسۃ في الصف الثالث ولکن بجھدھا ومحاولتھا ألحقت بأختھا نسرین في الصف الخامس۔
بعدما أکملت الشاعرۃ دراستھا الإبتدائیۃ ألحقت بمدرسۃ في (Sun rising school)[7] ثم أخذت الشاعرۃ تشارک في مختلف العلوم والمسابقات بجانب دراستھا وتفوقھا الدراسي، المسابقات المختلفۃ والمباحثات أضافت في فھمھا وفطانتھا وأیضاً شارکت في الأعمال الأدبیۃ المدرسیۃ مما ساعدھا علی زیادۃ ثقافتھا وأدبھا۔
ثم بدأت الشاعرۃ تُطالع کتب الأدب والمذھب والقصص الدینیۃ وقد فازت في ھذہ المدرسۃ بجائزۃِ في...
The Corona virus (SARS-CoV2) pandemic initiated in late December 2019 in Wuhan city of Hubei, China, which has rapidly progressedinvolving more than 215 countries of the world. It was caused by novel SARS-COV2 coronavirus with Huanan seafood wholesale market as the possible point of origin. In past two decades, coronaviruses epidemic of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-COV) had 37% mortality rate and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-COV) had 10% affecting more than 10,000 population together. World Health Organization (WHO) declared it as the sixth Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on January 30, 2020 and later on March 11, 2020, the WHO labeledit as a pandemic. The first case of COVID-19 from Pakistan was reported on 26th February, 2020 and has affected over 354,000 people with a mortality of over 7000 patients. Many countries of the world have seen second wave of this pandemic. Government ofPakistan has also declared a second waveon October 28, 2020, after the rise in cases from 500 to 750 per day. Now it has crossed 2000 cases. The data released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) shows that the current percent positivity rate is close to 3 compared to the previous figure of lesser than 2 making it a bigger challenge than first wave in Pakistan. The patients now presenting in hospitals are all in critical condition. Lack of a specific vaccine or antiviral drug and non-compliance to the standard preventive measures is the major reason of initiation of a second wave of this viral infection in Pakistan. Being a nation we need to be responsible. Our country may go into economic crisis & our health facilities may choke. We have to understand how to live with this virus till the availability of vaccine or Curative antiviral drug. TheGovernment of Pakistan is creating awareness in the public for the second wave as the situation of pandemic is getting worse. Smart lock downs are being implementedbut people are not following preventive measures that are leading to infection spread at a very alarming speed. At the moment preventive measures are the only way to stop the spread of disease. Preventive measures should be adopted to contain this deadly disease. Wearing masks, using hand sanitizers, washing hands with soap for 20 sec, keeping social distance of 6 feet are mandatory preventive strategies. Social, political, business, recreationaland religious gatherings, should be avoided. Educational institutesshould follow strict standard operating procedures. Most of the people in Pakistan are not considering this disease as a matter of serious concern due to unawareness, poverty, beliefs and lack of resources. People should ignore such disbeliefs and should start considering it as a great health concern. They should follow the preventive measures in true sense.
In the present research work cell lines of Oryza sativa cv. Swat-1 were incrementally adapted to osmotic (20 % PEG) and ion toxicity (20 mM LiCl) stresses to study the mechanisms of sequential tolerance and cross adaptation. The adapted cell lines were growing on respective stresses over a period of 55 passages and their tolerance was stable at least up to 6th generation on stress free medium. The physiological characterization of cell lines showed a substantial increase in proline and Ca++ levels and significant reduction in K+ and Mg++ contents on adaptation to PEG stress, while no prominent differences in accumulating organic and inorganic cytosolutes were observed between unadapted and LiCl adapted cell lines. Adaptation to PEG and LiCl was evident by appearance of six different polypeptides, among these four polypeptide bands 15, 17, 26 and 68 kDa were common, while, other two novel proteins 60 kDa, and 32 kDa were unique to PEG and LiCl adapted cell lines, respectively. None of these polypeptide were detectable in unadapted cell lines. At the molecular level the PCR amplification results using seven set of SSR primers for saltol region of chromosome 1 of rice revealed no polymorphism in adapted and unadapted cell lines. When adapted and unadapted cell lines were exposed to 200 mM NaCl with an iso-osmotic effect to 20 % PEG and an osmotic effect 10 times higher than 20 mM LiCl in addition to toxicity effects for two consecutive passages. The tolerance of both adapted lines was similar but significantly greater than tolerance of unadapted cells line. On exposure to subsequent second NaCl stress unadapted cells line failed to survive but the tolerance of adapted cell lines increased, expressing the phenomenon of sequential tolerance. Overall, no qualitative differences were observed among adapted and unadapted cell lines under salt stress. However, the patterns of response of adapted and unadapted cell lines to osmotic and ionic homeostasis to tolerate NaCl were greatly different. PEG adapted cells line appeared to acquire halophytic behavior of a salt accumulator, in contrast LiCl adapted line behaved like a typical salt tolerant glycophyte. Furthermore, the induced tolerance of adapted lines were not restricted to the same type of stress but showed cross tolerance towards other abiotic stresses.