KARACHI, Sept 23: A three-day book fair, organized by Dr Mehmood Hussain Library of the University of Karachi, at varsity’s gymnasium hall, was inaugurated by KU Vice-Chancellor Dr Zafar Saeed Saify on Tuesday.
Some 15 national and international book foundations have installed their stalls at the book fair, where books are available on 15 to 20 per cent discount for both faculty members and students of the varsity.
Later, talking to PPI, Dr Saify said the varsity has decided to give free books to first position holder of every department, so that students are encouraged to concentrate more on their studies.
Lauding the initiative taken by the KU library’s administration, Dr Saify said more such events would be held after regular intervals, and announced that the next book exhibition would be held in Jan, 2004.
He said three book fairs had been organized by the varsity during the last one and a half years, which not only benefited the varsity students, but also attracted book lovers from other educational institutions.
Acknowledging a sharp decline in book reading in recent years, he said book exhibitions should be held regularly as part of extracurricular activities to promote book buying among the students.
On the occasion, a former headmistress of the Habib Public School, Mrs Anwaar Fatima, presented Urdu translation of Alex Haily’s best selling novel ‘Roots’ to Dr Saify.
A large number of students and teachers from various KU faculties visited the fair and purchased books.
Computer exhibition: A two-day computer software exhibition by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Students’ Chapter, held in collaboration with the KU Department of Computer Science, concluded on Tuesday, which was participated by students from over 20 public and private sector varsities of the country.
Besides the software developed by the students of local varsities, other extracurricular events, including quiz, hacking and programming competitions, were also held during course of the exhibition, participated by a large number of varsity students.
Speaking on the occasion, the organizer, Abdullah, said seminars and lectures were also held during the exhibition to increase the knowledge of students, interested in various fields of information technology.
He maintained that the ACM had over 750 students’ chapters around the globe and one of these was established at KU in 2001. He also felicitated the acting director, HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, Dr Iqbal Chaudhry, for being the chief guest on the occasion.—PPI
KARACHI, Sept 23: A three-day book fair, organized by Dr Mehmood Hussain Library of the University of Karachi, at varsity’s gymnasium hall, was inaugurated by KU Vice-Chancellor Dr Zafar Saeed Saify on Tuesday.
