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Qazi Imran Ahmad is Librarian (Law) at the District and Sessions Court Library, Kasur, Pakistan. Recently, he has done his Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) in Information Management from the University of the Punjab, New Campus, Lahore, Pakistan. He has also done his Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of The Lahore, Pakistan in 2022. Previously, he did his Master of Library and Information Science from the University of the Punjab, Lahore. He have professional experience as Law Library Officer at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. He got many medals and appreciation certificates from the Director General of Federal Judicial Academy of Pakistan and the Worthy District and Sessions Judge, Kasur, Pakistan for writing and completing excellent research work during his M.Phil. His research interest are seeking behaviors, everyday life information seeking behavior, attitudes, group behavior, social justice, social influence and violence, study on marginalized communities.

Nosheen Fatima Warraich is a self-motivated, passionate and a committed professional in the discipline of information management. She joined the Department of Information Management as Lecturer in 2008. She received her PhD from University of the Punjab (2005–2011) and has honor to be the first PhD of the department regular MPhil leading to PhD program. Her career is beautiful amalgamation of librarianship as well as teaching. She did her graduation from the Lahore College for Women University Lahore in 1999 and masters from the Department of Library and Information Science, University of the Punjab, Lahore in 2001. She is privileged to get Fulbright Fellowship to complete her Post Doctorate from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany, USA in 2015–2016. Dr Warraich has more than 75 publications including Impact Factor and HEC recognized national and international refereed journals, conference proceedings, books and book chapters on her credit. She also supervised and have been supervising a number of research theses to Masters MPhil and PhD students; she regularly presents her research in the prestigious conferences of the field. Her research has been published in esteemed journals such as Electronic Library, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, Library Hi Tech, Serial Librarian, Global Knowledge Memory and Communication, Information and Learning Science, Public Library Quarterly and Education for Information and Library Management.

Amara Malik joined IIM as Lecturer in 2012. She did her PhD, MPhil and Master (with distinction) from the same Institute. Before joining IIM, she has served at the Institute of Administrative Sciences (PU) as a librarian. A number of her research papers have been published in international journals (e.g. Information Development, Health Communication, Library Hi Tech, Journal of Information Science, Information and Learning Sciences, Online Information Review and portal: the Academy and Libraries). She has also presented her research work in many international and national conferences and has participated in many seminars and workshops. Her research interests include LIS education, digital references services, human information interaction, social media and emerging technologies in the field; apart from that, she is member of national and international associations such as Pakistan Library Association (PLA), Punjab University Library and Information Management Alumni Association (PUILMAA), IFLA, Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). She is actively participating in professional activities, for example, working as; supervisor for IFLA internship program (2021–2022), corresponding member of Section Education and Training (SET, IFLA), social media manager of BSLISE project (IFLA) and elected communication officer of South Asia Chapter and SIG Social Media (ASIS & T, 2021–2023). She enjoys a diverse experience of teaching variety of courses such as LIS as Profession and Academic Discipline, Information Services, Personal Information Management, Collection Development and Management, Emerging Technologies, Advanced Management and Leadership to Master and MPhil programs at IIM. Among her other responsibilities, she is a focal person of the Department for various committees at university level: Career counseling and Placement Services, ORIC, QEC to name a few. She served as Convener in International Conference of Information Management and Libraries (ICIML) twice in 2015 and 2018.