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East View sponsors PAM International Membership Award for Muhammad Shahid Soroya at the 2007 SLA Annual Conference in Denver

For Immediate Release
May 30, 2007

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, USA - East View Information Services today announced its sponsorship of the "2007-2008 PAM International Membership Award". Muhammad Shahid Soroya will be attending the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference in Denver, June 3-6, 2007 as this year's winner of the award.

"We are proud to support an award that offers a librarian from the developing world the opportunity to be an active member of SLA and SLA-PAM. Our congratulations go to this year's International Membership Award winner, Mr. Soroya," said Kent D. Lee, President and CEO of East View Information Services. East View is one of the world's foremost providers of periodicals and other databases, microform collections and books from Russia, former Soviet countries and China to corporate, academic and government research libraries.

More information about the PAM International Membership Award, first granted in 1999, may be found here: http://units.sla.org/division/dpam/pam-bulletin/vol34/no3/pamint.htm

At the SLA conference Mr. Soroya will give an overview of the Digital Library Program of the Higher Education Commission in Pakistan. He will explain the vision of the Program and how it strives to meet the information needs of the higher education and research sector in Pakistan by providing online access to high-quality scholarly information, according to Joseph Kraus of PAM, the Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics division of SLA.

Mr. Soroya will also speak at "International Issues in Developing Countries" on Monday, June 4th, as one of three speakers on the panel covering "Programs to provide free or low-cost access to scholarly information to promote higher education and research in developing countries."

"I hope this event will be informative for me and I shall learn from other professionals coming from developed countries," wrote Mr. Soroya.

East View Information Services will exhibit at the SLA Annual Conference 2007 at Booth 441. Along with sponsoring the PAM International Member Award, East View is also a co-sponsor of the SLA Chemistry Division's Open House.

    
East View Information Services today announced its sponsorship of the "2007-2008 PAM International Membership Award". Muhammad Shahid Soroya will be attending the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference in Denver, June 3-6, 2007 as this year
Muhammad Shahid Soroya
About Muhammad Shahid Soroya:
Muhammad Shahid Soroya is currently a librarian at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Government College University in Lahore, Pakistan. His professional duties are acquisitions, technical processing and supervision of the circulation department.

"The school has hired the services of world class mathematicians from the USA, UK, France, Germany, Romania, Russia and other parts of the world," said Soroya. There are 73 Ph.D. scholars registered and Soroya provides specialized reference services to these research scholars.

Muhammad Soroya received his Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of the Punjab in 2001 with distinction. His first research paper was published in 2005 and two other abstracts have been accepted, according to Mr. Soroya. He completed his Masters in Philosophy in 2006 and now is a research scholar for his Ph.D. He graduated in Law in 2006.

Professionally, Soroya joined the Pakistan College of Law in 2001 as Librarian, then joined the School of Mathematical Sciences, Government College University, Lahore in 2003, where his first professional experience was developing a Mathematical Library from scratch.

Among other projects, he has been involved in the promotion of mathematical activities in Pakistan, was Chief Organizer of the "National Mathematical Olympiad" in 2005 and a member of the Pakistan Kangaroo Commission in 2006.

For more information contact:
Ronald Levitus
Director, Marketing and Communications
+1.952.252.1201
ron.levitus@eastview.com
East View Information Services
10601 Wayzata Boulevard.
Minneapolis, MN 55305 USA

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