Abid Hussain (abidmardan@gmail.com) is based at Library, Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan. He is a veteran librarian based in Islamabad, Pakistan. Currently, he is working as Deputy Director Library at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI). His research interests include library leadership, Digital Library services, Web-based technology, information literacy, bibliometric and information services. Before his current position, he was serving as a Digital Library in charge at National Defence University Islamabad (April 2009–April 2017), and Assistant Librarian at the Air University Islamabad (May 2005–September 2007). He has contributed 27 research papers to national and international reputed journals, whereas three of his articles are in pipeline. He has also published more than 70 columns, essays and opinion articles in various English dailies, magazines and blogs pertaining to library issues in Pakistan and abroad. He is regularly writing for five English dailies such as Pakistan Observer, Daily Times, Pakistan Today, The News and The Nation. His whole contributions can be viewed at https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=GdVB77sAAAAJ. He contributes regular articles for the quarterly newsletter of International Association of School Libraries (IASL). He has designed, implemented, coordinated and assessed the library instruction program, and trained fellow librarian master’s instructional theory and methods. He is an MPhil Scholar at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Peshawar, in batch 2021–2022 and earned his master’s degree in Library and Information Sciences from the same university in 2006; for dealing with social science scholars, he had completed his master’s degree in Political Science in 2011 from the University of Peshawar; for instruction of library customers, he has attained a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree from the Sarhad University Peshawar in 2016. He is an active member of American Library Association (ALA), Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), International Association of School Librarianship (IASL), International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), Canadian Library Association (CLA), Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Pakistan Library Association (PLA), etc. He is raising library issues through TV programmes, radio talk shows and other social blogs and keenly raises Pakistan’s role in library scenario at national and international conferences, webinars and seminars. During his career, he has completed many projects in digitizing various libraries in Pakistan. His few praiseworthy projects are as follows:
(1) Islamabad Policy Research Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan (IPRI).Website: (www.readerslounge.org/);
(2) Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad, Pakistan.Website: (http://issilibrary.org.pk/);
(3) National Defence University Library Islamabad-based.Website: (http://111.68.99.107/libmax/opac/index.aspx);
(4) Ghazi Library Command & Staff College Quetta.Website: (https://cscquetta.gov.pk/library/);
(5) Islamabad Business School Library, Pakistan (IBS).Website: (https://ibs.edu.pk/library/)
