Kanwal Ameen
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Kanwal Ameen Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Known for | Chair, Department of Information Management, University of the Punjab, lecturer, teacher and researcher, community development services in library and information science |
| Spouse(s) | Mohammad Zafarullah |
| Children | Ali, Zain, Danyal |
| Awards | 2010 Pakistan Library Association (PLA) Appreciation Award for Academic Achievement 2010 HEC Best University Teacher Award 2013 Asian Library Leader's Award |
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| Education | PhD in library and information science |
| Alma mater | University of the Punjab |
| Thesis title | Philosophy and Framework of Collection Management and Its Application in University Libraries in Pakistan: An Appraisal. |
| Thesis year | 2005 |
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| Notable works | 100 publications |
Kanwal Ameen (Urdu: كنول امين) is a professor in information management and chairperson of the Department of Information Management (University of the Punjab), formerly the Department of Library and Information Science comprising a central library and library departments that are recognized as the oldest in Pakistan.
Ameen is the chief editor for the Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries. She is also an award-winning teacher, author, researcher, and lecturer in the field of library and information science as well as a pre-doc (2000–2001) and post-doc (2009–2010) international Fulbright Scholar.
Ameen attended the University of the Punjab, and in 1985, after receiving a diploma in library science, began working as a librarian in the Department of Philosophy. In 1986, she earned a Masters degree in library science. In 1993, she traveled to the Netherlands and attended a 3-month diploma course on library management at Hague University, then worked as a lecturer at University of the Punjab from 1993 to 2004. She furthered her education, and attended the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 as a Fulbright pre-doctoral scholar, and four years later was working as an assistant professor at the University of the Punjab. In 2005, she was awarded a PhD in library and information science from the University of the Punjab. Her thesis was titled, Philosophy and Framework of Collection Management and Its Application in University Libraries in Pakistan: An Appraisal.
Ameen's teaching interests are in the areas of personality development, information services, qualitative research, personal information management, and marketing of information services. She worked in a supervisory capacity at the doctoral level, and became a professor at University of the Punjab in 2008. She attended the University of Missouri in 2010 as a postdoc Fulbright Visiting Scholar and researcher. Ameen became chairperson of the then Department of Library and Information Science which was renamed Department of Information Management. She entered the tenure track in 2013. That same year, she completed a research fellowship at the University of Tsukuba in Japan.
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