期刊名称：Pakistan Journal of Library and Information Science
印刷版ISSN：1680-4465
出版年度：2011
卷号：12
出版社：University of the Punjab
摘要：I was lucky to have met three top leaders of the profession and, in time, developed very close relationship with them – amounting to almost friendship. They were: Abdur Rahim Khan (ARK), Anis Khurshid, and Abdus Subuh Qasimi. The first one who I knew the most has been the last to depart. The situations, circumstances and the time-span in which I interacted with these seniors were different in each case but we spent hours together discussing, apart from personal interaction, the past, contemporary and future issues of Pakistani librarianship. Each one of them was deeply involved in professional activities and was part of the history of the profession. During these interactions and the discussions that followed, I learned a great deal about many unrecorded events of our professional history (2). My entry into the profession was accidental. I had planned to study for the master’s degree in Economics. A nasty fever delayed my visit to Lahore to apply for admission on time. It seemed that I had lost my chance to pursue the studies that I had planned for. I tried to think of some other options. I discovered that even the admission to the B. Ed. class in the Central Training College was closed. I rushed to Bahawalpur for the possibility of admission to B. Ed. class there but found out that the doors there were also shut due to being late. While traveling back by train, a little disappointed, I bought a newspaper to kill time. I noticed an advertisement for admission to Diploma in Library Science which brought me back to Lahore. The first person that I met at the Panjab University Library was ever-smiling, late Syed Ghulam Rasool Shah, the Assistant Librarian, who sat with me to fill in the admission form. While looking at the details, he told me to come back next week, bring along my luggage, and be ready to deposit fees.
