Dr. Shamshad Rasool
Designation : Lecturer
Specialization : Literature
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Specialization : Literature
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Post Colonial Literature, Gender Studies
- Ph. D. in English,Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan
- M. Phil in Literature in English,Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan
- MA,Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan
- B. A.,Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan
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| SYED RIZWAN SHABBIR | Ph.D | EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF WAR ON AFGHAN SOCIETY IN HOSSEINI’S NOVELS War is the most disruptive and destructive manifestation of human behavior and a potent agent of detrimental social changes in society. It has cast lasting devastative impacts on the people of the war-ridden countries. This study aims to explore the impact of war on Afghan society, as portrayed in Hosseini’s novels The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. The theoretical framework of Dramatic Social Change by Sablonniere has been employed for this study. Interpretive method of Textual Analysis is employed for this study to analyze the data. Data are taken in the form of narratives, situations, dialogues, ideas, utterances, and observations narrated by characters in the novels. The study finds that war has caused changes in social structures of Afghan society through deterioration of its political, economic, educational, judicial, and healthcare systems. The war has affected the normative structures of the Afghan society through inducing detrimental changes in their ways of living, disintegration of their family structure, spread of militancy and changes in their behaviors; diffusion of aggression and apathy in people’s behavior. The wars have threatened the collective cultural identity of Afghan people; minority ethnic groups have especially experienced this dilemma. The emergence of Afghanistan’s identity as a terrorist state at global level is also found to be an outcome of wars. The characters in the novel have coped differently with the impacts of war-induced social changes; some characters have shown resilience, whereas, some characters could not respond properly, and have, eventually, wasted away. This study is significant, as it helps in understanding the impact of war on Afghan society. Future research on this topic can be carried out employing the theoretical framework of Postcolonialism, Deconstructionism, CDA, or gender-based theories. | 2025 |
| Atka Skandar | MS | A STUDY OF STRAIN AND DELINQUENCY IN HAMID’S HOW TO GET FILTHY RICH IN RISING ASIA Strain is the major element of delinquent behavior and crime which stems from unfavorable circumstances. This study aims to explore the crucial factors that cause strain and force individuals to adopt delinquent and non-delinquent behaviors. It also investigates the factors through which the individuals reduce strain and indulge in corrective action. For this purpose, Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia has been analyzed utilizing the tenets of Agnew’s General Strain Theory of crime and delinquency which serves as a theoretical framework. It employs the Textual Analysis method by using the close-reading technique to collect and analyze the data. The findings bring to the surface that different social pressures, and disliked events like poverty, unemployment, criminal victimization, discrimination, and blockage of goal achievement create negative emotions in the lives of the protagonist, his family, and the pretty girl. They thrust them into the world of crime and the characters adopt delinquent behavior. The protagonist and the pretty girl reduce their strain by indulging in criminal activities and changing their impoverished lifestyle through delinquency. They suffer from solitude, emotionless married life, cupidity, and discontentment because of their delinquent behaviors. However, the non-delinquent characters like the protagonist’s wife, his father, and the pretty girl’s mother adopt positive coping strategies and alleviate their strain. Consequently, they lead a contented and satisfactory life. | 2024 |
| Bisama Gulzar | MS | NEGOTIATING OBJECT REALTIONS IN RHYS’S SELECTED NOVELS: A PSYCHOANALYTICAL STUDY Objects Relation is a key concept in psychoanalysis and loss of primary object plays a vital role in personality development of a person. The mother-child relationship is the primary love object that shapes child’s psyche and personality. The aim of this study is to reveal the complexities contributing to the troubled personalities of child’s who have experienced the absence of their mothers as their early caregivers. Rhy’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Good Morning, Midnight are selected as works to collect data and evidences, for which are the factors responsible for loss of primary object serve as the basic pillars of this research. Klein’s Object Relations Theory is taken as a framework for analysis of data. The concepts are the loss of the primary object, the effects of internal object and schizoid defenses. The method used for data analysis is textual analysis and qualitative content analysis. It has been found that the complexities in characters’ relationships and their physical and mental health shape because of loss primary love object generally the mother. To manage their sense of loss, the characters engage various defense mechanism including splitting, idealization, introjection and projection and emotional detachment. The characters are fallen and detached from society, Antoinette’s falls victim to hopelessness; for her there is no difference between life and death while Sasha embraces her fate and nothing matters for her anymore. Despite their best efforts both the characters face a tragic end. | 2024 |
| Shumaila Ahmed | MS | UNRAVELLING BIG TECH SUPREMACY IN EGGERS’ THE EVERY: A POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVE In the contemporary technological era, big tech corporations have unprecedented power due to the increasing dependency of people on technology. This study explores the phenomenon of big tech supremacy and the role of simulated realities and digital surveillance in controlling the characters by the big tech in Eggers’ The Every. Baudrillard’s theory of Hyperreality and Consumerism and Foucault’s idea of Panopticon/Surveillance serve as theoretical framework. Further, Textual Analysis method is utilized for data collection and analysis. The findings unveil that a big tech company ‘The Every’ creates a hyperreal environment through digitalization of different aspects of life like education, jobs, and socialization. It develops different apps like CircleClass, Departy, FaceMe, FaceIt, OwnSelf, HelpMe, PrefCom, FictFix etcetera, and various programs like STOP+LUK, ‘Thought Not Things’, StayStill etcetera and social media platforms to proliferate simulated realities and manipulates and seduces the characters to influence their choices, perceptions, behaviors, and identities. It shapes social reality according to its interests. Moreover, it uses powerful surveillance devices such as Ovals, AI screenings, Eye Of Bailey, HereMe, TrueVoice, eye trackers, tracking chips, SeeChange cams, smartphones and laptops to monitor, track, and dictate the characters to ensure their conformity to the new norms. Thus, it becomes a supreme power. Moreover, in its relentless pursuit of attaining absolute power and centralizing wealth, it harms humans by controlling their freedom, free will, and privacy. They become numb and complacent as the addictive and dictatorial apps and gadgets badly damage their mental and physical health. Moreover, it isolates wildlife by building an unperishable wall between other species and human beings. This study can be an impetus to raise awareness about the catastrophic effects of the rampant techno-culture where people are willingly submitting to its power. | 2024 |
| Saima Hafeez | MS | COSMOPOLITANISM IN POST-9/11 PAKISTANI FICTION: A NEW HISTORICIST PERSPECTIVE ON THE SELECTED NOVELS OF ASLAM AND KHAN The turn of the century brought a dramatic change in the world and global politics after 9/11 New York attacks in 2001 and the consequent War on Terror with more serious repercussions for Pakistan. As socio-political conditions are reflected in literature, Pakistani English novel underwent a prominent change. It marked a shift from rendering of domestic or social problems to the representation of cosmopolitan issues in keeping with the historical and political environment of the time. The present study aims at analyzing the impacts of the War on Terror on Pakistani English fiction, tracing the resultant cosmopolitanism which made the novelists convey their world-view in post-9/11 political/historical scenario through the representation and countering of politics and discursive practices constructed by the dominant powers. The novels selected for analysis are Khan’s Thinner than Skin and Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden. The concepts propounded by the New Historicists constitute the theoretical framework for the study. Textual Analysis method with the technique of Close reading of the texts has been employed to collect and analyze the data. The study has examined that the representation of global political issues in the novels is focused on highlighting and subverting the dominant discourses and propaganda for the decolonization of the readers’ mind. The Western discursive construction of Islam and the people of Pakistan and Afghanistan has been challenged and a true picture of moderate, inclusive, and enlightened Islam has been portrayed. | 2023 |
| Ahmad Raza | MS | DECOLONIZATION, NATIONALISM, AND APPROPRIATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FAZLI’S INVITATION AND ASLAM’S SEASON OF THE RAINBIRDS One of the critical subjects in post-colonial literature is the complex relationship between language, culture, and resistance in a world influenced by the experiences of colonialism. This study focuses on Aslam’s (1993) Season of the Rainbirds and Fazli’s (2010) Invitation using Ashcroft et al.’s (2002) The National Model and Abrogation and Appropriation of Language. The aim of this study is to find out the strategies of decolonization through the analysis of language and cultural appropriation in the novels. It also tries to show the difference between the nationalist approach and decolonization represented in the novels. Additionally, it compares both novels to find out their differences, similarities, and associations in dealing with the process of decolonization. Moreover, it employs research methods of textual analysis through the techniques of qualitative content analysis, thematic approach, and comparative analysis. The findings reveal that both texts utilize language appropriation strategies, such as glossing, untranslated words, interlanguage, syntactic fusion, code-switching, and vernacular transcription. They help to challenge the universality, authority, and superiority of English language and develop a counter-discourse against the essentialist view of language as a set of rigid norms. They also help to represent the distinct cultural identity of Pakistan as the appropriated Urdu or local language words become the symbols of their culture in the text. The novels also exhibit cultural appropriation, which serves as a counter-discourse to challenge the stereotypical and regressive portrayal of native cultures by colonial discourse. Additionally, the study pinpoints the difference between the nationalist approach and the decolonial approach in the novels. Through the exploration of these aspects, the study contributes to the broader discourse on decolonization, literature, and cultural representation within post-colonial societies. Moreover, it illustrates the difference between essentialist ideologies like nationalism and decolonization. | 2023 |
| Shahbaz Ahmad | MS | The End of History: A Postcolonial Study of Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree The present study tries to analyze the novel Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree written by Tariq Ali. The aim of study is to analyze the novel in the light of Francis Fukuyama’s notion The End of History. It is the primary objective of the study to highlight in a critical way that how Muslims achieved and concretized the notion of The End of History during their rule in Spain. The study also tries to find out that what were the reforms through which Muslims achieved this state. The second objective of the study is to analyze how this achieved harmony which Fukuyama calls The End of History was destructed by the Christian colonizers. In this way current paper takes a postcolonial stance while analyzing the novel. The tool of analysis is text-based qualitative data analysis and the study is purely analytical in nature. It has been found through a systematic investigation that Muslims during their rule in Spain achieved that idealized harmonic state in the society which Fukuyama calls The End of History where people of various religions and different classes were equal and prosperous. Moreover, it is also the finding of my study that Muslims achieved that ideal state through good governance and democratic principles. Muslims gave their women equal rights in various spheres of life. It has also been found that when the colonizers occupied Spain they destructed the whole system of peace and prosperity in a planned manner in order to confine power to the center, prolong their rule and justify their conquest. | 2022 |
| Shamsa Akhtar | MS | Identity and Cultural Transpatriation in Pakistani Fiction Contemporary Pakistani fictions incorporates transcultural sensibility. The concept of transpatriation challenges boarders, cultures, geographical and national boundaries. The present study explores Pakistani fiction through transcultural process of transpatriation. It interprets the transcultural aspects of the selected texts Exit West by Hamid and Burnt Shadows by Shamsie under the guidance of the theoretical underpinnings given by Dagnino. According to Dagnino, transpatriation process is a combination of ‘transcultural’ and ‘dispatriation’. This process allows individuals to adopt and gain their own mode of self-identification. The research work is the critique of transculturalism and phenomena of identity of the characters. Textual analysis as a methodology has been used for the data collection and analysis. The study reveals that the characters undergo the transcultural process of transpatriation and experience movement from one location to another and share cross cultural and mix linguistics interactions. Such mergence and convergence leads them to establish their new culture and hence, new identity. They experience a sense of not belonging to any culture and nation. Consequently, they feel at home wherever they move. By undergoing such process, they become transpatriate and develop their own metamorphic identity. Thus the fluid nature of cultures and identity promotes peace and harmony. | 2022 |
| QAISAR MEHMOOD | MS | VOICING OPPRESSIONS: A FEMINIST STUDY OF MORRISON’S SULA AND WALKER’S THE COLOR PURPLE Black feminists posit that the social factors of difference such as race, gender and class work together to marginalize and oppress black women, thus involving multiple facets of oppression. The assumption of the multiplicity of oppressions faced by black women is defined via a term called Intersectionality which studies mutual and multiple effects of racism, sexism and classism on the lives of black women. The current study has been conducted on two African American novels, Morison’s Sula (1987) and Walker’s The Color Purple (1992). The study examines that the plight of black women is caused by not only their state of being ‘female’ but also by being ‘black’. Their identities as black and female render them oppressed in their relationship with the whites and their black men respectively. ‘Textual Analysis’ and its approach known as ‘Content Analysis’ have been used as a research methodology to analyze the texts of the selected novels. For its framework, the study employs the concept of Intersectionality and the related concepts of racism and sexism defined by Collins (2000). She categorizes racism into ‘Institutionalized Racism’, ‘Everyday Racism’ and ‘Scientific Racism’. The conceptual tools have been employed to explore the effects of the social factor, ‘race’ on the female characters of both novels. The study finds out that female characters such as Helene, Nel and Nettie face Institutionalized racism in the institution of railway that practices discrimination in the provision of facilities such as separate compartments, toilets, restaurants and berths to black and white passengers. Female characters also face daily racial slurs, bad names and harassments by the whites in their day-to-day interaction. The study has also found that characters such as Eva, Nel and Sula feel frustration at the imposition of restrictive gender barriers. Some characters end up being traditional while some long for personal freedom. Female characters also face sexual and physical assaults by the domineering patriarchs. | 2021 |
| ZUBIA MIR | MS | RECONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES OF MIGRANTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HAMID’S EXIT WEST AND SHAMSIE’S KARTOGRAPHY Identity as a postcolonial paradigm is controversial. It is not fixed; it undergoes transition with the change in time and place. This study explores the reasons behind the immigrants’ problems related to the reconstruction of the identities in Hamid’s Exit West and Shamsie’s Kartography. The study focuses on the causes of migration of the immigrants and its effect on their identities; oscillation in their identities. Hall’s concept of cultural identities about migration and shifting identities has been employed as a theoretical framework. Applying this framework, the data have been collected and analyzed through the techniques of Textual Analysis. The findings of the study show that identities of immigrants are unstable and fluid; they construct themselves by connecting with new things, and suffer while interacting with the new cultural settings. In search of their lost identities, they lose themselves. | 2021 |
- Supervisor of M. Phil & Ph. D Scholars
- Member Departmental Research Review Committee (DRRC)
- Focal Person for Associate colleges
- Coordinator BS English Program
- Head Exam Committee
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1. Behzad Anwar, Asma Iqbal Kayani, Shamshad Rasool “Figurative language and gender construction: A corpus-based analysis of similes in Faruqi’s The Mirror of Beauty” Womens Studies International Forum, September 2024 DOI:
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2. Nazneen Zahra, Dr. Bushra Siddiqui, Dr. Shamshad Rasool “Exploring Existential Absurdity and its Acceptance in Naipaul’s The Mimic Men” Pakistan Journal of Law, Analysis and Wisdom, April 2024 DOI:
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3. Nazneen Zahra, Qurratulain Najeeb Jamal, Shamshad Rasool “Voicing Discursive Binaries: A Postcolonial Study of Gordimer’s Short Stories” Qlantic Journal of Social Sciences, April 2024 DOI:
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4. Saima Hafeez, Shamshad Rasool, Behzad Anwar “Post 9/11 War on Terror: A Study of Dynamics of Neocolonialism in Aslam’s Thinner Than Skin” Annals of Human and Social Sciences, April 2024 DOI:
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5. Fouzia Shaheen, Behzad Anwar, Shamshad Rasool “From Self Reliance to Spiritual Delusion: A Metaphorical Interpretation of Hawthorne’s Short Stories” Annals of Human and Social Sciences, November 2023 DOI:
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6. Saima Hafeez, Shamshad Rasool, Behzad Anwar* “Freedom, Authenticity and Responsibility: An Existentialist Study of Aeschylus’ The Oresteia ” Pakistan Social Sciences Review, June 2023 DOI:
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7. Muhammad Shoaib, Dr. Behzad Anwar, Shamshad Rasool “Factors Affecting EFL Teaching Skills at Higher Education Institutions in Pakistan: An Analysis of Teachers’ Perspective” Pakistan Journal of Language Studies, March 2023 DOI:
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8. Sundus Javaid, Waseem Hassan Malik, Shamshad Rasool “A Study of Postmodern Feminist Aesthetics in Margaret Atwood’s Prose Poems in Murder in the Dark” Hayatian Journal of Linguistics and Literature, December 2022 DOI:
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9. Raza E Mustafa, Behzad Anwar, Shamshad Rasool “Derivation of Feminine Nouns in Rangri: A Word and Paradigm Analysis ” Pakistan Journal of Languages and Translation Studies, December 2022 DOI:
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10. Syed Rizwan Shabbir, Dr. Shamshad Rasool “Exploring the Dramatic Social Change in Post-War Afghan Society in Hosseini’s Novels” Journal of Policy Research, December 2022 DOI:
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11. Nazneen Zahra, Dr. Shamshad Rasool, Dr. Behzad Anwar “Nationalist Approach in Appropriating Traditional and Modern Identity in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel” University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, June 2022 DOI:
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12. Nazneen Zahra, Shamshad Rasool, Behzad Anwar “NEGOTIATING THE INTERPLAY OF BINARIES IN KARNAD’S THE DREAMS OF TIPU SULTAN” Harf-o-Sukhan, June 2022 DOI:
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13. Shamshad Rasool, Shahbaz Ahmed, Behzad Anwar “The End of History: A Postcolonial Study of Ali’s Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree” Pakistan Journal of Languages and Translation Studies, May 2022 DOI:
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14. Shamshad Rasool, Saima Hafeez, Behzad Anwar “ Deconstructing the Myths: An Analysis of the Selected Short Stories of Tariq Rehman” Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review , March 2022 DOI:
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15. Waseem Hassan Malik, Shamshad Rasool, Raza-e-Mustafa “Discourse of Sindhi Nationalism in Shah’s A Season for Martyrs: A New Historicist Perspective” Hayatian Journal of Linguistics and Literature, December 2021 DOI:
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16. Raza-E-Mustafa, Shamshad Rasool , Iqra Kokub “ORIENTALISM AND THE LANGUAGE OF IDEOLOGY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ROBERT SPENCER’S “THE TRUTH ABOUT MUHAMMAD”” Harf-o-Sukhan, July 2021 DOI:
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17. Nazneen Zahra , Dr. Shamshad Rasool , Dr. Behzad Anwar “A Study of Mystical Madness in Rumi’s Poetry” webology.org, June 2021 DOI:
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18. Ahmar Jahanzeb, Dr. Muhammad Rashid Hafeez, Dr. Rana Faqir Muhammad Aslam, Dr. Shamshad Rasool, Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz “Using Methodological and Data Triangulation in English Language Teaching Research” Journal of Critical Reviews, May 2021 DOI:
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19. Dr. Shamshad Rasool, Dr. Behzad Anwar, Tabassum Iqbal, Basim Mir, “Exploring Feedback Strategies in the Teachers’ Talk” Journal of Critical Reviews, May 2021 DOI:
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20. 1. Saba Mariam, Dr. Behzad Anwar, Dr. Mohammad Shoaib, Dr. Shamshad Rasool “Literacy and Numeracy Drive: An Evaluation of Class Three English Textbook Of Punjab” Journal of Critical Reviews, May 2021 DOI:
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21. Shamshad Rasool, Behzad Anwar, Tabassum Iqbal, Basim Mir “Exploring Feedback Strategies in the Teachers’ Talk” Journal of Critical Reviews, April 2021 DOI:
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22. Muhammad Akram, Shamshad Rasool, Shahbaz Ahmad “Investigating Projection in Lorca’s Play the House of Bernarda Alba: A Jungian Perspective” Research Journal of Social Sciences & Economics Review, April 2021 DOI:
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23. Shamshad Rasool, Raza-e-Mustafa, Zahoor Hussain “Body of Woman As A Site For Battle: A Critical Study of Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man” Sir Syed Journal of Education & Social Research, April 2021 DOI:
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24. Shamshad Rasool, Waseem Hassan Malik, Raza-e-Mustafa “You Better Not Never Tell Nobody but God: A Study of Sidhwa’s Fiction” Research Journal of Social Sciences & Economics Review, April 2021 DOI:
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25. Muhammad Shoaib, Shamshad Rasool, Behzad Anwar “Evaluating Research Support Facilities to University Students during COVID-19” Library Philosophy and Practice, January 2021 DOI:
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26. Muhammad Shoaib, Dr. Shamshad Rasool, shamshad.rasoool Dr. Behzad Anwar “Evaluating Research Support Facilities to University Students during COVID-19” Library Philosophy and Practice, January 2021 DOI:
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27. Raza-e-Mustafa, Shamshad Rasool, Behzad Anwar “A Word-and-Paradigm Analysis of Pluralization of Nouns in Rangri” Kashmir Journal of Language Research, January 2021 DOI:
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28. Shamshad Rasool, Saiqa Imtiaz Asif “Gender Representation in the Primary Level Mathematics Textbooks of Punjab” Pakistan Journal of Languages and Translation Studies, December 2019 DOI:
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29. Dr. Muhammad Shoaib, Nusrat Ali, Behzad.anwar, Dr. Shamshad Rasool, Dr. Raza-e Mustafa “Research Visualization on Teaching, Language, Learning of English and Higher Education Institutions from 2011 to 2020: A Bibliometric Evidences” Library Philosophy and Practice, May 0021 DOI: