KohaCon21 Proposals

Proposals period

As of 2020, conference must be either hybrid with an in-person conference streamed online, or entirely online.

For hybrid conferences, the rules for continent rotation apply. Therefore, for 2021, the following continents are eligible:

1. Africa
2. Americas (north, central and south)
3. Asia

Bidding is opened until January 15, 2021 23:59 UTC (date and time in your time zone)

See Processes for KohaCon for rules previously established for proposal eligibility, voting, etc.

Voting

As there was only one bid this year the decision was made during the General IRC Meeting 17 March 2021

Decision

KohaCon21 will be held in Pakistan!

The decision was announced on the Koha main mailing list on March 18 2021.

See KohaCon22 Proposals if you want to apply for KohaCon22!

Proposals Summary

Hosting organization

1. Organization name: Koha Pakistan Community & National Library of Pakistan
2. Contacts: Sher Afzal Khan (President Koha Pakistan), WhatsApp 00 92 345 8555800, Linkedin: [1]
3. Website:" [2]
4. Email: kohapakistan@gmail.com
5. Venue: National Library of Pakistan (Both In person and Online)
6. Proposal Website: [3]

Format

In-person only (But those speaker who couldn't participate due to the COVID -19 and other International restriction can present their proposal online too.

Proposed dates for the conference

December 13 to 18, 2021

Local information

Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan lies on the Potohar Plateau, one of the earliest sites of human settlements in Asia. Together with its twin city, Rawalpindi, it has a population of 4.5 million. The word Islamabad means ‘the city of Islam.’ It has a humid subtropical climate with five seasons. It is famous for its overall greenery, peace and cleanliness. The places worth seeing in this city include Lok Virsa Museum, Rawal Lake, Faisal Mosque, Pir Sohawa, Islamabad Zoo, Pakistan Museum of National History, the Centaurus Mall, etc. Islamabad is no doubt one of the most beautiful and planned cities and that is why it has been ranked as the second most beautiful capital,” Just behind the Prime Minister secretariat on Constitution avenue is National library of Pakistan, open to public during working hours.

Destinations

For details please visit the link: of Islamabad For details please visit the link: and Dining For details please visit the link: [4] For details please visit the link: the beautiful For details please visit the link: International Airport Only 45 minutes, and 35 km away from Islamabad International Airport.

Nestled in the capital of Pakistan and situated in the Pothohar Plateau in the north of the country, the area serves as the crossroads of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with the Margalla Pass serving as the gateway that links them. Ranked as a Gamma world city in 2008, Islamabad and much of Pakistan still remains undiscovered by international travellers.

You’ll find the Pakistani people to be warm and welcoming, greeting you with genuine friendliness.

====== National Library of Pakistan ======

Introduction

In the beginning, a skeleton National Library was established in1951under the defunct of Archives and Libraries. In the year 1954, Liaquat Memorial Library was amalgamated with the National Library and named as Liaquat National Library. However, after shifting in the new capital, and the Liaquat National Library was again renamed as Liaquat Memorial Library. The scheme for the establishment of National Library of Pakistan at Islamabad was initially approved by ECNEC in 1963. However, construction of the Library building could not be taken in hand due to delay in the approval of the building designs and because of the low priority assigned to the project. Library designs were approved in April, 1980 and construction work started in 1982. Finally ENCEC revised and approved the project of the establishment of National Library of Pakistan in September, 1985at the capital cost of Rs.130.322 millions. Most of the civil works were finished by June, 1988 as scheduled and library collections and staff moved into the new building during the same year. The caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan Mion-ud-Din Ahmad Qureshi inaugurated the library on August 24,1993 and its door were opened to the public.

====== The Building ======

The building of National Library of Pakistan is located at shah rah-e-jamhoriat adjacent to the Prime Minister’s Secretariat. The building consist of four floors with the total covered area of 168,844sq.ft.with centrally air-conditioning and heating facility. The basement floor madly provides for Serial Division, Delivery of Books and Newspapers Branch, Telephone Exchange, Air-conditioning &Electric plants. The ground floor provide for the main entrance to the library, Reception, Digital Information Division, Public canteen, Computer section, Record creation section, Acquisition section, Planning and Research section, ISBN Agency, Preservation & Conservation section, Lending Division Model Children Library and Accounts. The first floor provides for On-line Public Access Catalogue,04 Reading Halls, Manuscript & Rare Books section, Establishment, Seminar Room, Class Room, Meeting Room offices. The 2nd floor is the top floor of the building which houses the general Stacks and 14 research rooms. All the floors are interconnected with the book elevators, lifts and stairs. Auditorium of the National Library with seating capacity of 400 persons has become a focal point for educational and cultural programmes in Islamabad. 500 seats for readers and research scholars are available in the reading halls of the National Library.

====== Knowledge Resources ======

Since the National Library has been established after almost 46 years of independence special efforts are being made to build suitable collection to meet reference and research needs of the country. Over the past few years about 200,000 volume have been acquired through purchases, gifts, exchange and legal deposit. 580 hand written manuscripts and over 10,000 rare books in Urdu, Arabic and Persian have been acquired through the purchase of private collections belongings to Late. Dr. M. Abdullah Chughtai, Late Ehsan Danish, Sheikh Muhammad Faazil of Sukkar, Syed Wajih-ud-Din of Faisalabad, Qazi Mahmud-ul-Haq of Lahore, Dr. Gohar Naushahi of Islamabad and Mr. Sarfraz Khan of Rawalpindi. Dr. Sabiha Hafeez, Ministry of women Development has donated to National Library 1806volumes from the personal collection of her late father Hafeez Hosiapure. In addition to these valuable collections about 3000 microfiches items containing reports of all India Censuses for 1911, 1921, 1931 and 1941 have been added to the collection. 90,000 books have been acquired through purchase and gift. National Library has received 55836 books being the National Depository of literary heritage (by ashley at tf). Number of bound volumes of newspapers and periodicals is about 40,000.National Library also serves as official depository of some international organizations like Asian Development Bank, International Labor organization and UNESCO etc

The Library serves as national depository under the provisions of copyright ordinance 1962. It is mandatory for every publisher to deliver the best copy of his publication at his own expenses to the National |Library of Pakistan within thirty days from date of its publication under the copyright ordinance 1962 and copyright (amendment) act 1992. The main objectives of the depository collection is to preserve all the published materials produced in the country in order to make it available for the use of present as well as future generations. It is intended to be the principal and the largest treasure house of the country-recorded knowledge. Its located near to the Prime Minster office the most beautiful area of the capital of Pakistan. Hotels and Shopping centres, Hospitals, Clubs, Mountains and other cultural centre are within 5 to 10 KM from the venue.

1. Forts: Rawat Fort
2. Tourist attractions: Mausoleum of Meher Ali ShahSaidpur, Islamabad
3. Archaeological sites: Shah Allah Ditta
4. Museums:Lok Virsa Museum Pakistan, Museum of Natural History, Golra Sharif Railway Museum
5. Monuments: Pakistan Monument
6. Government secretariats Near to National Library: Parliament Building, Supreme Court of Pakistan building,Aiwan-e-Sadr, Prime Minister's Office, National Archives of Pakistan building, jinnah Convention Centre
7. Other sites: Faisal Mosque[[Category:[Koha_Conferences][http:https://kohacon2021.org/]]]

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