South Asia Chapter Officers

Dr. Syeda Hina Batool
Chair
University of the Punjab, New Campus, Lahore, Pakistan

Dr. Syeda Hina Batool is a postdoc/teaching research fellow at the UBC School of Information, Canada. In her permanent role, she is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Information Management, University of the Punjab, New Campus, Lahore, Pakistan.  She is serving at various national and international professional forums including ASIS&T and IFLA.  She has published a good number of peer reviewed articles in prominent journals of the field. She conducted numerous workshops nationally on different learning skills (information literacy, use of social media) including qualitative research, literature mapping, proposal writing, mendeley and NVivo software. Among her other responsibilities, she is editorial board member of one of the prominent journals of the field Libri.

Amara Malik
Secretary
University of the Punjab, New Campus, Lahore, Pakistan

Amara Malik is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Information Management, University of the Punjab, New Campus, Lahore, Pakistan.  She is serving at various national and international professional forums including ASIS&T and IFLA.  She has published a good number of peer reviewed articles in prominent journals of the field. 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, portal: the Academy and Libraries etc.). 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).

Sadaf Rafiq
Membership Officer
Government college university (GCU) Lahore, Pakistan

Sadaf Rafiq is a Librarian at Government college university (GCU) Lahore, Pakistan. She persuades MPhil degree in Library and Information Science from University of the Punjab. Prior to join GCU, she served as medical librarian at CMH Lahore medical college and FMH college of medicine and dentistry. In 2015, she won the IFLA/OCLC early career development fellowship. She is nominated for ASIS&T and SIG-III InfoShare award in 2018 and 2021. Additionally, she completed the fellowship of International Librarians Networking Program (ILNP) by ALA International Relations Round Table 2022. Currently, she served as an executive member of IFLA Big Data Special Interest group 2021-2023.  She presented her research papers in National and International conferences and also participated numerous series of training, workshops, seminars, symposia and webinars, etc.  she has vast interest in the research directions of Electronic Resources, Information Behavior, Research Data Management, Big Data and Information Literacy.