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" FUTURE LIBRARY FUTURE LIBRARY     By   Mr. Justice Ajmal Mian, Judge, Supreme Court of Pakistan   Mr. Chancellor, Mr. Vice‑Chancellor, 'dear students, ladies and gentlemen!   I am grateful to the Chancellor, the Vice‑Chancellor and the Board of Governors of Ziauddin Medical University for having invited me to attend this Seminar on an important topic, namely, "The Future Library". The papers which have been read out today on the various aspects of the above subject were very instructive and informative. There cannot be two opinions that a future library should be an embodiment of modern technology.   The above Seminar coincides with the opening ceremony of the University Library. One of the criteria to guage the standard of an educational institution is to find out the standard of the library maintained by it. A library is sine qua nor for an educational institution. The origin of the institution of library goes back to the pre‑Christian era when libraries used to be maintained to temples and palaces inter alia in Egypt, Iraq and Syria. The concept of a library has undergone material change with the passage of time inasmuch as according to literary meaning 'library' means "room or building containing books for reading or reference, room in large house devoted to books, collection of books for use by the public or by some class of persons". The libraries are no longer stationary as we have also mobile libraries. The printed books are being gradually replaced by discs, videos and gadgets. The latest . definition of the word 'library' given by one writer is that it is "a place for storing knowledge under a system that facilitates identification and retrieval as needed".   On account of…