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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all I would like to thanks Almighty Allah from the bottom of my heart, which
enabled me to complete this task.

I am also very thankful to my internal and external supervisor Prof. Dr. Khalid
Mehmood & Sir Haseeb Ahmad Piracha( chief librarian of Punjab university library )
who’s scholarly guidance made me reach the right place top to my internship. I would
like to express my sincere thanks to all my teachers, whose keen guidance and
encouragement has a source of great help throughout the course.

I am very thankful to respected, beloved and great honorable sir Saleem Abbas Zaidi
and Rauf Ishaq for there kind favor they morally and professionally supported me to
complete my internship. I am also very thankful to my family (especially to my beloved
father, Mother) who invested their affection and blessing in my life and my friend who
guided me for the completion of my report. A lot of thanks to the whole staff of Punjab
university main library, who treated me very kindly, guidNe on every step and help me in
any difficulty and made it easy for me to achieve my goals.

INTERNSHIP IMPACT

The internship as a requirement of the masters’ degree provides special opportunities

for learning which are different from supportive of and supplementary to the more
academic aspects of the program. These special opportunities will enhance and enrich
the University’s overall education efforts and outcomes as well as those of the various
programs. It is considered very necessary to join a professional field. My Internship was
started on 18 July and completed September on 9, 2016. During my internship I
worked in different sections and I learned and performed almost all the activities in
these sections. During my internship I also wrote my routine work diary. It was a
splendid experience to work in all these sections.

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INTRODUCTION

Punjab University Library is the largest resource centre of knowledge’s and

information in Pakistan, which came into existence in 1882. The Library remained I its
old building upto 1988 and in the same year it was shifted to its present two storied
building. It become a book collection of more than 6,70000, which includes more than
22,000 manuscripts and 80,000 bound volumes of National and International Research
Journals covering various discipline taught in the University. This prestigious library has
more than 50,000 volumes of old documents published during the latter half of 19 th and
first two decades of 21st Century. The Library has 1273 microfilms of rare material. It is a
depositary library for UNO Publications. It has 32000 members comprising of faculty
members, students and other researchers of the Punjab University.

From 2005, the Library has transferred its Catalogue from WINISIS to
Multilingual Library and Information Management System (MLIMS). This has the facility
to enter data in the Oriental Languages including Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Punjabi etc
as well. Online Public Access Catalogue (OPACs) terminals are available for searching.

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SECTIONS OF PUNJAB UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

The Punjab University Library (known as the Main or Central Library) is a

separate administrative unit of the University of the Punjab. Its Head is designated as
Chief Librarian. The Service Unit in-charges are designated as Deputy Chief Librarians
who serve with the collaboration of the Senior Librarians, Librarians and other non-
professional staff. All the professional and non-professional staff works under the
guidance and supervision of the Chief Librarian.

There are eight service Units/Sections of the Library. Every Unit/Section is under
the administrative control of Deputy Chief Librarian. However Internet Lab is supervised
by Lab. Network Administrator.

Acquisition Circulation Oriental

Preservation & Reference

Cataloging
Conservation

U.N & Gov.

Serials
Publications

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ACQUISITION SECTION

Acquisition Section is concerned with the selection and purchase of reading

material in what so ever from it may be. Books are accessioned in this section. It keeps
a complete and up-to-date record of such books and other reading materials.

Books are purchased keeping in view the requirements of the University Faculty
the students and the Research Scholars. Books are generally selected from the local as
well as foreign publishers, catalogues, current lists and local book exhibitions/fair, etc.
These catalogues and lists are sent to the Heads of the concerned teaching
departments for selection and approval of the reading material of their subjects. They
select and approve the reading material for addition to the Main Library from these lists.
After getting their approval, the titles approved are thoroughly checked with the library
catalogue to avoid duplication. Special attention is paid to provide text books and
research material to the library users. It also acquires rare manuscripts and microfilms,
etc.

The Annual Budget of Punjab University Library for the year 2015-16 is Rs.
13,000,000/-

BUDGET DIVISION

 Reference 10%
 Science Subjects 38%
 Arts Subjects 29%
 Oriental Subjects 10%
 Education 5%
 Commerce 5%
 Law 6%
 Pharmacy 7%

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Functions of Acquisition Section are:-

 Acquire Books
 Check Duplication
o Through MLIMS
o Through Excel File (total record of books since 1995)
 Verification of new books with the vendors invoice
 Prepare Purchase Order
 Arrange Vendor’s Lists
 Make Department Files
 Enter Data of new books in Excel File (database)
 Enter Data of new books in Accession Register
 Paste security chips on books
 Paste monograph (sticker) on security chips
 Punch the secret page
 Providing Financial Reports
 Organizing gift and exchange activities
 Manage ordering, claiming, receiving documents.

ACTIVITIES

 Check duplication in MLIMS and Excel File

 Data Entry of new books in Excel File
 Data Entry of new books in Accession Register
 Prepared purchase order
 Arrange Vendor’s lists
 Make Department files
 Paste security chips on books
 Paste sticker on security chips
 Verify of new books with the vendors invoice
 Use punching machine

CIRCULATION SECTION

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The Circulation Section is the backbone of the Library. The Section has a unique
role for providing the latest information to readers. Furthermore, Circulation Section has
introduced computerized system for proper record keeping. Now that computer facility is
available, hence it is easy to send defaulter lists/miscellaneous correspondence well in
time which providentially will improve in the long run.

In the year 2007, Library has started circulation transactions like check-in and
check-out of the books on smart bar-coded cards. This has made the issuance
procedure efficient Issue and Return counters have been separated in a new designer
check-in/check-out counter. Keeping in view the books security issues, library has
installed RF based book security system integrated with smart card based entrance with
time and management control system.

Functions of Circulation Section are:-

 Registers new members, issues borrower’s cards and renews

membership cards.
 Issue and receipt of reading material, to and from the members only.
 Collects delay fines for overdue books.
 Sends reminders for overdue books.
 Informs the members about the reading material reservation.
 Settles cases regarding the books lost or damaged by the members.
 Prepares defaulter lists and sends them to the Heads of the concerned
teaching department to detain their roll numbers till they clear their
accounts with the library.
 Issue the Library Clearance Certificates.
 Checks incoming and outgoing materials thoroughly.
 Helps the library users to finding the required material and guides them it
the library catalogue.
 Shelves the reading material on the racks that had been returned by the
borrowers and taken from the shelves for reading.
 Keeps statistics of daily transactions.

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COLLECTION

 Text Books of all disciplines of University

 Thesis and Dissertations
 Collection of Books on Pakistan
 General Books
 Personal Collection

CATEGORIES OF MEMBERS

 Category – A
o Punjab University Faculty Members
o Research Scholars
o Card valid for one year
o 6 books issued for one month
o Red Card
 Category – B
o All Punjab University Master Students
o Includes PhD, M.Phil, M.Com, L.L.B, etc.
o 3 books issued for 15 days
o Blue Card
 Category – C
o All Bachelor Students
o B.A (LLB), B.Sc, BS
 Category – D
o All Punjab University Employees upto BS-17
o 3 books issued for 15 days
o Green Card
 Category – E
o All Punjab University Librarians
o 3 books issued for 15 days

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o Green Card
 Category – F
o All Private Research Scholars
o 3 books issued for 15 days
o Green Card
 Category – G
o All Punjab University Retired Faculty
o All Punjab University Retired Employees upto BS-17
o 6 books issued for one month
o Red Card
 Category – Y
o All Punjab University Diploma Holders
o No Book issued, only facility to reading in the Library
 Category – X
o Students of other University/Colleges
o Books issued through Inter-Library Loan
 Category – Z
o All Punjab University Employees
o One book issued for one week
 Category – W
o According to the situation this category is used.
 Category – V
o To Block the Student’s Card

ACTIVITIES

 Register new students

 Data Enter in MLIMS
 To verify defaulter lists
 Clearance certificates
 Block cards (category-V)

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 Issue and receive books

 Prepare Yellow and Blue cards of books
 Find books on shelves and gives to students
 Shelves the books on the racks that had been returned by the students.
 Guide students that how to get clearance certificate
 Guide students that how to use OPAC for searching books
 Arrange the cards of students
 Arranged the thesis
 Use OPAC for searching books

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ORIENTAL SECTION

Cataloguing, Classification and all other technical process regarding Oriental

Languages are performed in Oriental Section. The Section has four types of catalogues.

 Catalogue of Urdu

 Catalogue of Arabic

 Catalogue of Sanskrit

 Catalogue of Persian

The catalogue cards have been arranged alphabetically word by word, letter by letter.
To find out whether the Library has a particular book, or not and where to find it on the
shelf, the book may be traced out by consulting the catalogue through its author, title or
subject. In case of any difficulty, the Librarian and staff on duty can be consulted for
guidance.

Periodicals in Urdu and other Oriental Languages are acquired by the serial
section. When the volumes of journals are completed, these are sent to the Oriental
Section in bound volumes. It has personal and special collections consisted of
published and unpublished reading material which have a special attraction due to their
rarity and usefulness.

TOTAL COLLECTION OF SECTION

Total collection of Oriental Section is more than 200,000.

COLLECTION

 Urdu Books

 Punjabi Books

 Arabic Books

 Pushto Books

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 Persian Books

 Hindi Books

 Sindhi Books

 Sanskrit Books

 Manuscripts

 Thesis

ACTIVITIES

CHECK DUPLICATION OF BOOKS

When new books acquired, the first process is to check duplication of that books.
There are two ways to check duplication:-

 OPACs

 Manual

I check duplication of books by using OPACs and card catalogues.

MAKE CUTTER NUMBERS

I built cutter numbers by using Urdu cutter list which is prepared by Oriental
Section.

CATALOGUING CARD SLIPS

After making cutter numbers and classification numbers, card slips are prepared
for data entry of books in the MLIMS software.

CHECK DUPLICATION CUTTER NUMBER

Cutter Number also checked by using shelf list, whether cutter number is already
exists or not. If cutter number already exist then it is changed last alphabet.

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ARRANGEMENT OF CARDS

Arrange cataloguing cards and shelf list cards and put into the exact place in the
cataloguing boxes.

DATA ENTRY

 Learn how to enter book data in MLIMS

 Learn how to prepare spine labels in the MLIMS

 Learn different options of MLIMS

SHELVING

I did shelving of Urdu and Persian books.

MENUSCRIPT CATALOGUES

Check catalogues of manuscripts. There are more than 22,000 manuscripts in the
Section, which is very old and rare.

PERSONAL COLLECTION

There is huge personal collection of persons in the Oriental Section. I check catalogue
list of personal collection, find books from the collection and keep back to the shelves.

SERVICE COUNTER

I served the service counter and guide to the users that how to find their required books
by using OPACs.

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PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION SECTION

The Section is located on the first floor in the Punjab University Library. It has a
large number of Microfilms and CD-ROMs in its collection and read/write facilities of
CD’s/DVDs to fulfill the information needs of the University Teachers, Researchers and
the Students etc. The subjects covered in the collection of microfilms are mostly related
to social sciences and humanities.

The Microfilms of rare manuscripts in Arabic, Persian and Urdu are also
available. There is large number of microfilms of rare newspapers and journals which
have been kept to assist the researchers of Pakistan Movement, Quaid-e-Azam, Allama
Iqbal and other political and social aspects of Pakistan. Photocopy machines are
available to provide photocopies of rare material and preservation. Microfilm reader with
printer is also available which facilitates the research scholars/users in the use of
microfilm.

For the preservation of the Library material, a high speed scanner named
“BookEye4” with the facility of microfilm scanning is added in the Section. The
digitization facility is also available for large size material.

The Section has also the responsibility of smooth functioning of electronic

databases of books and journals in the University provided by the HEC. Another
important responsibility is to conduct the trainings about the Turnitin anti-plagiarism
software. The subscription of this software is provided by HEC and it is used to produce
the originality reports of the research work.

BookEye-4 (Scanner)

BookEye-4 is a very high speed scanner. It has following features.

 Scan upto 18 x 24 inch documents in 2 seconds.

 400 x 600 dpi optical resolution in 24-bit color.
 19 inch preview monitor
 Touch screen controls
 Integrated 2-position v-cradle

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 2 integrated USB ports

 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity

ENDNOTE SOFTWARE

EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to

manage bibliographies and reference when writing essays and articles. There are
several ways to add a reference to a library; manually, exporting, importing, copying
from another EndNote library, connecting from EndNote. The program presents the user
with a window containing a drop-down menu to select the type of reference they require
(book, newspaper article, film etc and fields ranging from the general author, title, year)
to those specific to the kind of reference ISBN, abstract, reporter’s name, running time
etc. Most bibliographic databases allow users to export reference to their EndNote
libraries. This enables the user to select multiple citations and saves the user from
having to manually enter the citation information and the abstracts. There are some
databases in which the user needs to select citations, select a specific format and save
them as .rtf files. By then going to EndNote, the user can then import citations into the
EndNote software. It is also possible to search catalogs within EndNote.

ACTIVITIES

 Search databases and HEC databases on Internet.

 Use converter machine from microfilm to digital image.
 Use digital camera for making images of books.
 Use Flatbed HP scanner for scan normal size books.
 Use BookEye-4 scanner.
 Create PDF files.
 Edit PDF files by using Acrobat Writer Software.
 Edit images/title pages of books by using Adobe Photoshop Software.
 Edit old book pages by using Adobe Photoshop Software.
 Use photocopy machine
 Use different softwares that are necessary for digitization:-
o Adobe Photoshop

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o Adobe Acrobat Writer

o PDF to word Converter
o PDF to Image Converter
o PDF Cutter
o MS-Office
 Visit following websites for understanding that how to access e-material and
other sources on internet.
1. www.itdunya.com www.paklag.org
2. www.archive.org
3. www.online-convert.com
4. www.urdupages.com
5. www.4shared.com
6. World Digital library (www.wdl.org/e
7. www.sendthisfile.com
8. Digital Library of India (http://www.dli.ernet.in/n/)
9. HEC Digital Library Program (http://www.digitallibrary.edu.pk/)
10. Rekhta (https://rekhta.org/)
11. Google Advanced Techniques

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CATALOGUING SECTION

The main responsibility of this Cataloguing Section is to classify and catalogue

the reading material. After purchasing, accessioning and labeling of the reading material
in the acquisition section, it is sent to the Cataloguing Section for technical processing.
This reading material is being classified according to Dewey Decimal Classification
scheme, Library of Congress subject heading list is used for assigning subject
headings, Catalogue cards are prepared according to ALA Cataloguing Rules. From
2005 WINISIS Catalogue has been transferred to Multilingual Library and Information
Management Systems (MLIMS).

Functions of Cataloguing Section:-

 Data Duplication Check
 Subject Analysis
 Assign Classification Number
 Assign Cutter Number
 Subject Heading
 Data Entry in MLIMS
 Print Spine Labels
 Paste Spine Labeling
ACTIVITIES
 Checked the duplication of books by using OPACs
 Arranged cards on shelves catalogue
 Assigned Cutter No. to the books by using Cutter List
 Assigned Classification No. to the books by using DDC
 Assigned Classification No. to the books by using E-DDC
 Find Subject Headings through website of Library of Congress
 Data Entry in MLIMS
 Print Spine Labels
 Paste Spine Labels on the Books

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REFERENCE SECTION

The Reference Section holds more than13,000 reference books including

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Biographical Dictionaries, Yearbooks, Handbooks,
Bibliographies, Accession Lists, Guides, Maps, etc. its function is to answer the reader’s
reference questions and to keep a record of the reference questions asked and
answered. The reference questions may range from simple reference questions to
complex research. It provides reference service to fulfill the information needs of the
Teachers, the Students and the Researchers. It also answers the questions like who is
who, what is what, how and where etc to save the precious time of the users.

The Section is responsible to prepare originality reports through Turnitin

anti-plagiarism software for M.phil/Ph.D desertions and various research articles.

The Reference material can only be utilized within the library and cannot be borrowed.
Since May 2002 the Reference Section has been converted to a separate reading hall
which is fully air-conditioned.

COLLECTION

 Encyclopedias

o Give a “summary treatment” of the different phases and aspects of a

subject.

o Explain historical backgrounds, trends and the influence of events outside

the subject area.

 Dictionaries

o Provide specialized definitions and explanations of terminology and

concepts.

o Helps to establish terminology.

o Serve as a guide to current as well as historical usage of words and

phrases.
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 Biographical Dictionaries

o Provide concise information about important persons in a subject field;

authors, scholars, educators.

o May include biographies and evaluations of an author’s work.

 Yearbooks

o Summarize events of the past year, including research projects

undertaken and completed.

 Handbooks and Manuals

o Identify references, allusions, dates, quotations and characters in literature

 Almanacs

o An annual calendar containing important dates and statistical information

such as astronomical data and tide tables.

 Atlases and Gazetteers

o Provide geographical information in any subject area and may give maps.

o Give overall picture emphasizing location of industries, products, literature.

 Bibliographies

o A list of the books referred to in a scholarly work, typically printed as an

appendix.

o A list of the books of a specific author or publisher or on a specific subject.

 Indexes

o Indicate where periodical articles on a subject can be found.

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o Indicate collections in which plays, short stories, essays and poems can
be found.

 Guide Books

o A book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or

tourists.

 Directories

o A book or website listing individuals or organizations alphabetically or

thematically with details such as names, addresses, and telephone
numbers.

 Abstract Journals

o An abstract is a brief digest or summary which gives the essential points

of an article, pamphlet, book, monograph or report.

o Usually an abstract of a work gives the researcher enough information to

enable him to decide.

WHAT IS PLAGIARISM

 The act of using the work of another and passing it off as one’s own.

 Using someone else’s exact words without quoting them is Plagiarism.

 Plagiarism is a species of intellectual fraud. It consists of un-authorship /

unauthorized copying that the copier claims is original with him and claim causes
the copier’s audiences to behave otherwise than it would if it knew the truth.

TURNITIN

Turnitin is the leading originality checking and plagiarism prevention service used
by millions of students and faculty and thousands of institutions worldwide. Turnitin
encourages that best practices for using and citing other people’s written material.

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It is web-based plagiarism detection software. It can be used as a deterrent, but

also as an educational tool to teach students that how to work with sources and to
improve paraphrasing and quoting skills.

 Three main services of Turnitin:-

o Peer Mark: Peer review

o Grade Mark: To facilitate online marketing of student writing.

o Originality Check: Identifies overlap between pieces of writing and

produces an originality report with the percentage of overlapping
material.

 How to use Turnitin.com

o Open site www.turnitin.com Log on  All Classes  Choose

Class  Submit File  First name and last name of author  Title
 Upload file of any format (.doc, .ppt, .pdf)  file size must not be
more than 20mb.  Click on submit file button  Click on Confirm It
 After 20-25 minutes result report will show.

PLAGIARISM DETECTOR SOFTWARES

 Viper  Plagiarisma

 Plagtracker  Compilatio.net

 Plagscan  Ephorus

 Plagius  PlagiarismExamine.com

 Plagiarism Detector  Copyscape

ACTIVITIES

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 Give Pre-Internship Test

 Give Post-Internship Test

 Make a list of all reference sources

 Evaluate all reference books deeply

 Find queries by using different reference sources

 Find and read articles on internet on the topic of Digital Reference Services and
SDI Services

 Find articles and sent/email to Sir. (SDI Service)

 Find articles/presentations on the topic of Plagiarism

 Use different search techniques in the search engine for search the topics

 Use www.turnitin.com

 Shelf reading

 Presentations of books

 Visit HEC databases

 Visit Punjab University Library website and check the following

o E-Books HEC National Digital Library

 Ebrary  eContent Platform

o McGraw Hill Collections

o Springer E-Books

o Check Digital Program Subscribed Journals

 Read the following books deeply for understanding:-

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General Knowledge Latest Essays GMAT

SAT CSS PMS

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UNITED NATIONS & GOVT. PUBLICATION SECTION

Punjab University Library is a depository Library of U.N Publication under an

agreement nominal annual subscription is paid by the Library and in response the
library receives the publications of U.N.O and its sub-ordinate departments.

The reading material has been arranged in classified order. The Section is
function at the first floor. There are about 25,000 U.N publications and 10,000 Indian
and Pakistan Government reports. The United Nations Publications and Govt. reports
can be used as Reference Books.

COLLECTION

 Matric Result Gazettes

 F.A Result Gazettes

 B.A Result Gazettes

 M.A Result Gazettes

 Past Question Papers

 U.N.O Reports

 University Calendars from 1882 to 1990

 Syndicate (Agenda, proceeding) from 1882 to 2010.

GOVT. PUBLICATIONS

 District Reports

 Labour Force Reports

 World Bank Reports

 World Water Reports

 Annual Budget of Pakistan Reports

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 Sugar Industry Reports

 FATA Education Planning

 University Annual Reports

 Education Reports Pakistan

 Lahore Chamber of Commerce Reports

 PTCL Reports

 PTA Reports

 Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Reports

 Gazetteer Reports

 Hotel Industry Reports

 Agricultural Reports

 PCB Annual Sports Reports

 Different Cities of Gazetteer Reports

 Proceeding Conference Reports of Pakistan

 U.N.O Education Reports

SYNDICATE

 Definition:-

o A group of individuals or organizations combined to promote a common

interest.

 There are 21 members of Punjab University Syndicate

PUNJAB UNIVERSITY CALENDAR

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University of the Punjab was established in 1882 and its first Calendar published
the year 1884-1885. Various editions of the University Calendar were published from
time to time of which the last appeared in 2002. Since this 1990 edition have many
amendments, alterations, additions and deletions in the laws pertaining to the University
took place. It was in this perspective that a Calendar Committee under the
Chairmanship of Dean of Law was set up by the Vice-Chancellor. The main job of the
Committee was to revise the old edition of the Calendar and publish it with its revised
Statutes, Rules, Regulations, etc.

The Punjab University Calendar has 13 main parts are as under:-

 Acts and Ordinances

 Efficiency and Discipline

 Constitution

o Authorities

o Statutory Bodies

o Non-Statutory Bodies

 Powers and duties of Officers, Teachers and Auditors

 University Employees

 Affiliated Colleges and Students of the University

 Withdrawal of Admission Forms, Constitutions and change of Centres of

Examinations; Appointment of Amanuenses / Examinations / Scrutineers, their
duties and Remuneration and conduct of Examinations.

 Financial rules, T.A rules etc.

 Research facilities, Research Scholars/ Students and Research Publications

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 Rules & Endowments

 Academicals Costume

 Miscellaneous

 Delegated Powers

ACTIVITIES

 I did the shelving of the Govt. Publications of U.N Section

 I check and arranged University Calendars

 I check the Gazettes

 I check the Syndicate Agenda and Proceedings

 I checked the online resources of United Nations where I found many useful
resources which Librarian can use in order to provide services to users.

 I arranged the F.A, B.A and M.A result Gazettes

 Search United Nation websites:-

o www.un.org

o www.un.org.pk

SERIALS / PERIODICALS SECTION

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Serial definition:-

 A story or play appearing in regular installments on television or radio or in a

magazine or newspaper.
 In a library (a periodical)

Journal definition:-

 A newspaper or magazine that deals with a particular subject or professional

activity. Example: Journal of Library and Information Sciences.

Newspaper definition:-

 A printed publication (usually issued daily or weekly) consisting of folded

unstapled sheets and containing news, articles, advertisements and
correspondence.

Magazine definition:-

 A periodical publication containing articles and illustrations, often on particular

subject or aimed at a particular readership.

INTRODUCTION

Serial Section is the source of current and the latest published information which
is very useful in research work. It acquired journals of almost all the subjects. Local
Newspaper in Urdu and English are subscribed.

 Khabrain
 Khabran
 Jang
 Jasarat
 Express
 Insaf
 Nawa-e-Waqat
 Masawat

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Two International Newspapers are also subscribed:-

 Khaleej Times
 Financial Time

When a volume of a Journal or file of a newspaper is completed, it is get binded. The

section has maintained files from 1954 to onward of different national newspaper
especially Nawa-e-Waqat and Pakistan Times. Bound volumes of the Journals are
arranged on racks in classified order and fresh issues, but photocopy of the required
article is allowed under the rules, there are 80,000 bound volumes of Journals on
various disciplines both in foreign and local languages.

Research oriented Journals both local and foreign are subscribed with the
approval of the Heads of University Teaching Departments.

BUDGET OF SECTION

The Annual Budget of Serial Section for subscription of Journals is 3 Million

rupees.

NEWSPAPER INDEX

The Section publishes a monthly newspaper articles Index under the title
“Newspaper’s Index”. This newspaper articles index include important national,
international, religious and scientific topics. Table of contents service is provided to all
departments, when a new foreign research journal is received in the library, the
photocopy of its table of content is sent to the relevant department. If the teachers are
interested in any article, the free photocopy is provided to them. It is very regular
Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) Services.

The functions of Serial Section are:-

 Selecting, ordering and processing Journals.

 Keeping records of all Journals holding
 Preparing Journals, Newspapers for binding.
 Assisting patrons to get current set of Journals.

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ACTIVITIES

 Arrange Newspapers
 Arrange Journals
 Arrange books on shelves (daily)
 Entered Journals data on Register
 Stamping on the Newspaper and the Journals
 Read articles and make subject heading
 Read different journals
 First three days I worked on an assignment given by chief librarian.

CONCLUSION

At the end of my Internship report I want to say that it is a marvelous, fabulous and
brilliant experience to work in this library. All the staff members are very cooperative,
supportive and compassionate. I really enjoyed this Internship. It was a challenging
experience for me. During this Internship I got the opportunity to learn from practice.
Library provided me learning environment where I gained technical skills and
professional knowledge with personal experience. I work according to proper plan.
Library environment is calm and comfortable. I tried to perform all serviceable activities
with sincerity.

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APPROVAL LETTER
External Supervisor

Haseeb Ahmad Piracha

Signature:

Date:

Comments if any

Thanks

Internal Supervisors

Prof. Dr. Khalid Mehmood

Department of Information Management

Signature:

Date:
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgment
Internship Impact
Introduction
Sections of Library:
Acquisition

Circulation

Oriental

Preservation and Conservation

Cataloging

Reference

United Nation and Government Publication

Serials/ Periodicals

Conclusion
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INTERNSHIP REPORT

Punjab University Library

External Supervisor Internal Supervisor

Haseeb Ahmad Piracha Prof. Dr. Khalid Mehmood

Submitted By

Abuzar Liaqat

MIM 15M 33

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB