UVAS holds book fair

LAHORE: The central library of the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore (UVAS) arranged a two-day annual book fair 2019 in the city campus here on Monday.

UVAS Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Talat Naseer Pasha inaugurated the book fair which will continue till Tuesday today while Librarian Muhammad Aslam, Prof Dr Asim Aslam, Ms Abeeda Zia and a large number of students, faculty members and book sellers were present.

Fifteen stalls were set up at the fair and book sellers and publishers displayed a variety of books including livestock, literature, IT, social science and also books stock on relevant fields of veterinary sciences like Anatomy & Histology, Animal Nutrition, Clinical Medicine & Surgery, Dairy Technology, Public Health, Fisheries Aquaculture, Food Sciences Human Nutrition, Livestock Production, Microbiology, Parasitology, Pathology, Poultry Production, Wildlife and Ecology, Biochemistry Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Science, leather & fiber Technology, Statistics & computer Science, Environmental Science and Policy Management, etc.

Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Talat Naseer Pasha visited many stalls and talked to book sellers and students about the significance of book reading. Talking to the media, Prof Dr Talat Naseer Pasha said that books didn’t lose their significance even in the age of information and communication technologies. He said book fair was aimed to provide a platform to promote book reading habit among students, researchers and teachers and it would help increase their knowledge. He said thousands of books are related to veterinary sciences and literature displayed in the fair and students can get maximum knowledge from these books.