CPL News

November 4, 2014

Volume 1, Issue 1

A Glimpse on Chughtai Public Library

Inside this issue:

A Glimpse on
Chughtai Public
Library
Inauguration of CPL
Reading Room
Summer Camp
Views of CPL Readers
CPL Welcomes
Donations
Information Literacy
Corner
New Arrivals in CPL
CPL Book Lover

Chughtai public library was established in November 4, 2013. It is a nonprofit organization. The main objective of which is to establish a center where students and
aspiring scholars of all ages and disciplines from every walk of life and every strata
of society can find an opportunity to learn and carry out research.
Chughtai Public Library aims to provide common man an environment where he can
flourish his/her knowledge and let him feel that good books are good friends and
finally to serve humanity. Chughtai public library is providing free of charge services
in the modern environment.
CPL has approximately 5000
books both in urdu and English on
different subjects like computer
science, mysticism, Iqbaliat, Quaid
e azam, history of Pakistan, Islamic
history, philosophy, Islam, Social
Sciences, Natural Sciences, Politics,
Urdu & English literature, text
books and childrens books. CPL
has very rare collection on education from 1800 to 2014 for researchers.
Children Section have a rich collection of books including 3D & animated books and complete collection of kalaam publications, Oxfords children publications, bestselling kids series and a good collection of basic Islamic knowledge for
children.
Standard books on various subjects are being continually acquired on the demand of
library users. Chughtai public library has special focus on CSS exam preparation
material.
Reference section is located at ground floor with wide range of reference material
i.e. encyclopedia, dictionaries, atlases, etc. It provides reference services to researchers and general users.
Chughtai Public Library has an archive of local newspapers both in Urdu and English.
The CPL has maintained record of newspapers from November, 4 2013 to onward
of different newspapers.

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Chughtai Public Library offers following major services free of cost :

Membership
Book Lending
Reference Service
Photocopying & print out facility
Internet & Wifi
Refreshment i.e Tea & Coffee
Pick & drop service

CPL Opening Hours

Monday to Saturday
08:00 am to 09:00 pm
Sundays
10:00 am to 06:00 pm

CPL Reading Room

Chughtai Public Library has initiated a project to establish CPL Reading Rooms nationwide. This is an effort to
provide education to the nation at their nearest place.
Dream comes true when CPL management has inaugurated first Reading Room at main boulevard Allama Iqbal
Town, Lahore on September 23, 2014.
There are 300 books on various topics including books for children are kept at Reading Room initially.
We are getting wonderful feedback from
the public who are using CPL Reading Room.

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CPL Organized a Summer Camp

Library had organized a free of cost Summer camp for children in Summer Vacations. It was started from 22
June 2014. About sixty Children were registered for Summer camp. There were a lot of activities of learning
for children. The summer camp was mainly a fun way of learning for the children where different methods were
adopted to improve the learning level over the period of one month for the children of Central Park & nearest
villages. It was a great event enjoyed by children.
We felt much pleasure when children reported us that they have started waiting for summer camp 2015 even
after the last day of 2014 summer camp. Following activities were included:

Games

Stories

Carton Movies

Painting & Sketching

Islamic Education

Computer Learning

Spoken English course etc.

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Views of CPL Patrons:

Mr. Nisar is preparing for CSS exam using services of Chughtai Public Library.
He Says:
Where the successive governments in Pakistan deliberately ignored the educational
facilities for general masses there are few people like Dr. A.S. Chughtai who are courageous enough too immediately project like Chughtai Public Library. It is as to my
knowledge one of the best public library in Pakistan. The staff is very cooperative eager to help the readers. The environment is very comfortable and healthy for the readers. There are many facilities that are not available in other libraries.
For instance CPL provides photocopy facilities, printing facilities, transportation and even refreshment facilities
without any cost to the readers. The membership is free and you can request for any book you want to study.
Moreover the timing of the library is thirteen hours more than other libraries in Pakistan. The management of
the CPL is planning to provide the reading facilities nationwide. They are focusing the remote areas to kindle
light of knowledge in backward areas.
God bless Dr. A.S. Chughtai who is working for this great deed of national importance

Mrs. Rashid is a house wife & a very active User of CPL. She had started using CPL
since its establishment.
She Says:
I am a member of Chughtai public library since its establishment in November 2013.
I am a graduate but still I am a student. I often visit Punjab public Library and Quaid-eAzam Library. After shifting residence to central Park. I found CPL which is also a complete source of information. It is not only a store-building or rooms containing a collection of books. Actually it is
a house of knowledge .It is a place that is open to poor and rich alike. It is very useful for rural youth too.
Its staff is very cooperative, furniture is comfortable and peaceful environment is very good.
In view of above it is appreciated that Chughtai Public Library is a precious asset for central Park Housing
scheme. I always pray for it flourishes.

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CPL Welcomes Donations

The Chughtai Public Library accepts donations of any kind that support and further the mission, goals and objectives of the Library, as established by the Board of Governors of CPL.
An acknowledgement of receipt of a donation will be made to the donor in writing within ten business days of
receiving the gift.
Donating Books
The Chughtai Public Library is happy to accept new or gently used the following items in excellent condition:
-Textbooks, classic titles, older best sellers and popular fiction of enduring interest
-Audiocassettes
-Video cassettes
-CDs, DVDs
-Periodicals
-Manuscripts
-Maps
We are unable to accept the following items:
-materials that are worn, torn, underlined, highlighted, dusty, dirty, moldy or in otherwise poor condition
-Manuals & Pamphlets
-Coloring books & workbooks
To arrange for your donation of a valuable book or item, please call us at 042-35935281, 0345-8406770

CPL Valuable Donors:

-Dr. Mujhadid Kamran (Punjab University, Lahore)
-Dr. Farrukh (Rawalpindi)
-Ms. Sunbal Zubair (Islamabad)
-Begam Hamida Khwaja (Lahore)
-Mr. Kaleem Khan (Islamabad)
-PALS Association (UK)
-Mirza Hamid (Lahore)
-Dr. Rehmat Hassni (DHA, Lahore)
-Dr. Hafiz Ashraf (Central Park, Lahore)
-Ms. Musarrat sayed (Gulberg, Lahore)
-Mrs. Humaira Shahid (Sarwar Colony, Lahore)
-Mrs. Sarah Chughtai (Cantt, Lahore)

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Internet Search Techniques

The Internet is so full of information that its nearly impossible to check its limits. Everybody knows different search engines how to utilize these search engines. Search
skills are an essential 21st century skill that will serve you in finding, organizing, and
leveraging information faster and more reliably, thereby increasing productivity
and improving your quality of life online. In simple, that makes searching more specific and relevant to your query.

Internet Search Strategies

OPERATOR

EXAMPLE

EXPLANATION

AND
Document must have both
words (or both phrases)

Copyright ANDmoralrights

Will narrow your search because search results

will include all documents that contain both the
first term and the second term.

OR
Document can have either
word (or either phrase)

Tobacco ORcigarettes

Will expand your search because search results

will include all documents that contain either the
first term or the second term or both.

NOT
Document must have first term.
Must not have second

love NOT war

Will exclude an idea/concept from your search

because it will find documents that contain the
first word, but do not contain the second.

* use very carefully because

may exclude lots of useful information.
ADJ
Forces the computer to search
for words in a specified order.

NOT is helpful if you notice a recurring topic in

your retrieval that is not relevant to your topic.
obsessive adjcompulsive

Will find results where obsessiveimmediately

precedescompulsive

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NEAR
Retrieves items that have
both terms in the same sentence. You can add a number to near to instruct the
computer to find results within those numbers of words in
any order

alcohol nearabuse

Nesting

theater(actorORactress)

Require the terms and operations that occur

inside them to be searched first. This is called
"nesting."

working mothers

Requires words to search as a phrase, in the

exact order you type them.

alcohol near3abuse.

i.e., "Men who abuse their wives after alcohol

consumption or Alcohol consumption leads to
abuse"

()
Quotation marks

This will retrieve results where alcohol is within

3 words of abuse.

affirmative action

Excluding Words
-

dolphins -football
Jaguar speed car

Wildcard *

Obama voted * on *

Synonymous Terms ~

~feminism

Stop words

travel+with+theban

Add a dash (-) before a word or site to exclude all results that include that word. This is
especially useful for words with multiple meanings, like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the
animal.
Use * as a placeholder for unknown words in a
phrase.
Use ~ immediately before a key term to
search for synonyms.
use + to force a search for an important stop
word

#[word]

[#privacy]

Using the # before a word enables you to

search for hash tags in Google+, Twitter, and
more social networks.

intitle:

intitle:Bob Marley

Restricts a search to the titles of Web sites.

inurl:

inurl:butterflygardening

Restricts a search to the URL of a website

filetype:

intitle:child nutrition filetype:ppt

Searches for specific filename extensions.

Googlesearches for PowerPoint (.ppt), Excel
(.xls)and Word(.doc) documents as well as
Adobe Acrobat (.pdf),Adobe Postscript (.ps),
Rich Text Format(.rtf) and more

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New Arrivals In Chughtai Public Library

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Book Lover of the Issue

Chughtai Public Library is happy to announce a title of CPL BOOK LOVER
to MR. KHALID MAHMOOD AHMED for the 1st issue of the newsletter. He
is top of the list who borrowed books from CPL. We appreciate his reading
habit.

319 G, Central Park Housing Society, Lahore

Ph.: 042-35935281-2, 0345-8406770, Email: librarian.cpl@gmail.com
Web: http://cplpk.org

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