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This section offers information about some of the new material which has been received in the GCU Libraries. We receive new accessions regularly by gift, deposit and purchase. Whilst we cannot advertise them all here; we will attempt to bring the most important titles from the same.

 

 

 

 

 

1. Books Addition in May 2016

 

 

 

 

2. Reviews New Titles

Here are a couple of new items that we acquired during last month’s from the open market.

 

 

3. new accessions and Recommendations

  • Purchases

       The Acquisition Department situated in Science Hall at Postgraduate Library is responsible for the largest proportion of the Library’s purchases. The Division acquires about 4000 books every year, excluding newspapers, magazines and periodicals, of which about 90% are the result of selection by faculty members and library staff of the University or come as part of standing orders. A reasonable proportion of of works purchased arise from recommendations made by readers.

All purchasing is carried out within the guidelines laid down within the GCU Collection Development Policy which offers detailed information on the Library’s collecting policy by subject, language and physical format.

  • Recommendations

       Readers are encouraged to recommend works for purchase: the preferred means is via the on-line recommendation form. There are also printed recommendation forms available in various locations throughout the Library.

Readers are not normally informed that the works they have recommended have been approved, and they may assume that their recommendations have been ordered unless they are notified to the contrary. In fact, relatively few recommendations are rejected, largely on grounds of expense or unsuitability.

Most works recommended by readers are acquired within a few weeks. The Department normally orders from suppliers in the country of publication, as this has been found to be more reliable, as well as offering financial advantages. It does mean, however, that it may take longer to acquire a book than the recommender expects. In addition, because of the amount of material being received, it is inevitable that there is some delay between receipt of parcels and the processing of the books. If readers wish to enquire about the progress of a recommendation, they should normally ask the Department, or contact the Senior Librarians.

  • Recommend a purchase

       Suggestions for the purchase of books and other materials should normally be made through Librarians or drop the suggestions in the Boxes available in GCU Libraries.

The suggestion should include the following information:

  • Author or editor, title, publisher, date of publication, format,
  • Price Priority: 1 (essential), 2.1 (highly desirable), 2.2 (desirable) or 3 (relevant but of less importance)
  • Teaching staff should also provide details of the numbers of students expected to use the item and some indication of the timing of the initial demand.

        Suggestions can be submitted by email to chieflibrarian@gcu.edu.pk.

4. Donations

Readers who wish to donate works to the University Library may address them to Chief Librarian.

All donations are formally acknowledged. The University Library reserves the right and discretion to accept or discard donations which either duplicate existing holdings or fall outside its Collection Development Policy. In view of the large number of donations received, rejected donations are not returned to their donors, although efforts will be made where possible to find a more suitable library within the University where such donations can be accommodated.

 

Urdu Books

 

 

عنوان:            سبز و سفیدہلالی پرچم کے محافظ و شہداء

مصنف:           اعظم معراج

 

قیام پاکستان سے لے کر اب تک مادروطن کوجب بھی ضرورت پڑی افواج پاکستان میں شامل دھرتی کے مسیحی بیٹون نے اپنے مسلمان بھائیوں کے ساتھ وطن کی حفاظت کےلیے اپنے آپ کو پیش کیا۔ اور جہاں ضرورت پڑی وہاں اپنی جانیں دھرتی ماں پر نچھاورکرنے سے بھی گریز نہیں کیا۔

مسیحی نوجوانوں اوراپنی آنےوالی نسلوں کو نیزا اپنے مسلم ہم وطنوں کویہ قابل فخربات ذہن نشین کرانی ہوگی کہ مسیحی اسی دھرتی کے بیٹے ہیں۔ آزادی ہند،قیام پاکستان اور تعمیر پاکستان کے ساتھ ساتھ ہمارا دفاع پاکستان میں بھی کردارنہایت شانداررہاہے۔ ہمیں اپنی نوجوان نسل کواپنے غازیوں اور شہدوں کی کہانیاں سنانی ہوں گی۔ تاکہ وہ اپنی مٹی سے اپنی نسبت کو ذہن میں رکھ کر زندگی کی دوڈ میں میں شامل ہوں اور اپنے معاشرے میں مقابے کی دوڑ میں کسی احساس کمتری کے ساتھ شامل نہ ہوں بلکہ فخر،عزم اورجوان حوصلوں کے ساتھ معاشرے میں اپنے لیے مقام پیدا کریں۔

زیر کتاب میں۔۔۔ ان  شہدا کی شہادت کی مکمل تفصیلات اور ان کے خاندانوں سے کی گئی گفتگو سےاخذاکی گئی ان شہدا کی ایمان افروزاداستانیں لکھی گئی ہیں۔ اور اس کے علاوہ جی۔ایچ۔کیو راولپنڈی سے جاری کی گئ  مسیحی شہداء کے فہرست بھی اس کتاب میں شامل کی گئی ہے۔ تاکہ ہمارے اہل وطن کو علم ہو کہ مسیحی اسی دھرتی کے بیٹے ہیں اور دھرتی کو جب بھی ضرورت پڑی ہے انہوں نے اپنے مسلمان بھائیوں کے شانہ بشانہ مادروطن کے لئے اپنی جانیں قربان کی ہیں۔

 

   

 

عنوان : پاکستان اور ہندوستان میں اردو تحقیق و تدوین کا تاریخی و تنقیدی جائزہ

مرتبہ:  رؤف پاریکھ

 

اردو زبان و ادب کی تحقیق کی تاریخ اگرچہ زیادہ طویل نہیں ہے۔ لیکن ایسی کم مایہ بھی نہیں ، یہ البتہ ضرور ہے کہ اردو تحقیق کی مبسوط اورمنضبط تاریخ اب تک مرتب نہیں کی جاسکی ہے۔ اردو تحقیق و تدوین کی تاریخ رسائل و جرائد میں مضامین کی صورت میں بکھری ہوئی ہے یا تحقیقی کتب کے اجراء کی شکل میں موجودہ ہے۔ تحقیق سے متعلق بعض موضوعات پر بہت کچھ لکھا گیاہےمثلا رسمیات تحقیق، کتابیات و فہارس وغیرہ ، لیکن اردو میں کیے گۓ تحقیقی و تدوینی کام کا جائرہ کم کم لیاگیاہے۔

اکژاہل علم اس بکھرے ہوۓ تحقیقی و علمی کام سے واقف اور استفادے کے قابل ہوتے ہیں لیکن اصل مشکل بۓ محققوں اور طلبہ کو پیش آتی ہے۔ زیر نظر کتاب اس اعتبار سے بڑی اہمیت کی حامل ہے۔ مضامین کی فہرست سے معلوم ہوتاہے کہ مرتب نے نہ صرف تحقیق و تدوین کے باب میں کام کرنے والے نمایاں اور مائندہ مصنفین کے مقالات کو اس کتاب کا حصہ بنایاہے بلکہ تاریخی ترتیب کا لحاظ بھی رکھاہے۔ الہذا ایک نۓ محقق کو اردو تحقیق و تدوین کا ایک جامع اور معیاری جائرہ ایک ہی کتاب میں مل جاتاہے۔

  

   

 

عنوان:    جگ بیتیاں

مصنف:    خواجہ آفتاب حسن

 

 " جگ بیتیاں" ایک خواب ہے جو کھلی آنکھوں سے بنا گیا، ایسا خواب جو ہم میں سے بہت سے لوگ ہر روز دیکھتے ہیں۔ کچھ جاگتے میں اور کچھ بند آنکھوں سے۔ خواب ایسی چیز ہے جس کےٹوٹنے سے ہر دیکھنے والا ڈرتا ہے۔

                     

 جگ بیتیاں کہانیوں پر مشتمل ہے وہ کہانیاں جو ہماری زندگی اورہم سے وابستہ دوسری بہت سے زندگیوں سےجڑی ہیں۔ ہم انہیں روز دیکھتے ہیں۔ ان کے کرداروں سےملتے ہیں۔ کی کو پسند کرتے ہیں، کسی کو ناپسند۔ ایسے ہی کرداروں کی کہانیاں ہماری زندگی کی سچائیاں بھی ہیں کچھ تکیف دہ تو کچھ خوشگوار۔ جگ بیتیاں ہمارے اردگرد پھیلی ایس کہانیاں ہیں جن کے کردار جیتے جاگتے انسان ہیں۔

 

   

 

عنوان:               ناظم حکمت: انسانی منظرنامہ                     

مترجم:               منو بھائی

                               

 پچھیلی  صدی کا آغاز دنیا میں انقلابوں اور آزادی کی تحریکوں سے ہوا ۔ ترکی بھی ان ممالک میں شامل ہے جہاں پر عوام نے جنگ آزادی اور انقلاب سے تاریخ رقم کی۔ اس انقلاب میں ترکوں نے شاندارابواب رقم کیے۔ ترکی کا انقلاب دانشوروں، مفکروں کے افکار و خیالات سے عبارت ہے۔ ان میں سے ناظم حکمت ران نمایاں ہیں۔ ترکی کے عظیم ترین عوامی اور انقلابی شاعر ناظم حکمت نے سترہ ہزار مصرعوں کی طویل نظم برصہ جیل کی قید کے دوران 1941ء میں شروع کی تھی جو تقریبا مکمل ہوچکی تھی مگر اپنی 64 سالہ زندگی کے 28 سالوں پر پھیلی ہوئی سیاسی قید کے دوران ناظم حمکت اس نظم پر 1952ء تک نظر چانی کرتے رہے۔

جواشتراکی نظریات اورافکار سے متاثر ہی نہیں بلکہ اس کے علمبردار ہیں۔ ان کو ترکی اور دنیا میں ایک رومانی کمیونٹ کہا جاتاہے۔

 

   
English Books  

Title:  A map of misreading: with a new preface

Author: Harold Bloom

          

In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. In this finely crafted text, Bloom offers instruction in how to read a poem, using his theory that patterns of imagery in poems represent both a response to and a defense against the influence of precursor poems. Influence, as Bloom conceives it, means that there are no texts, but only relationships between texts. Bloom discusses British and American poets including Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Warren, Ammons and Ashbery. A full-scale reading of one poem, Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," represents this struggle between one poet and his precursors, the poem serving as a map for readers through the many versions of influence from Milton to modern poets.

For the first time, in a new preface, Bloom will consider the map of misreading drawn by contemporary poets such as Ann Carson and Henri Cole. Bloom's new exploration of contemporary poetry over the last twenty years will illuminate how modern texts relate to previous texts, and contribute to the literary legacy of their predecessors.

 

   

Title:           Developing web application 2nd Ed.

Author:      Ralph Moseley   

 

Building applications for the Internet is a complex and fast-moving field which utilizes a variety of continually evolving technologies. Whether your perspective is from the client or server side, there are many languages to master - X(HTML), JavaScript, PHP, XML and CSS to name but a few. These languages have to work together cleanly, logically and in harmony with the systems they run on, and be compatible with any browsers with which they interact. Developing Web Applications presents script writing and good programming practice but also allows students to see how the individual technologies fit together. It includes recent technical developments to provide a practical and modern introduction to building web applications. Assuming no prior programming experience, this concise, accessible book ensures that essential concepts on the client side are quickly grasped, and goes on to examine the server environment and available languages, including discussion of dynamic, modern scripting languages such as PHP. Network and security issues are also discussed. The aim of this book is to deliver exactly what is needed to start producing working applications as soon as possible - and have fun along the way. Ideal for course use or self-study, this book includes practical suggestions for mini-projects which encourage the reader to explore his or her own imaginative solutions, as well as more theoretical end-of-chapter questions. It can also easily be used as a reference work as each section is self-contained, amplifying the key aspects of its particular topic. Most software covered is freely available in the public domain and no particular development environments are required. It is a direct, contemporary and extremely useful resource for anyone interested in learning how to program applications for the World Wide Web.


 

   

Title:  Routes: travel and translation in the late twentieth century

Author:       James Clifford

When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up toThe Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a world that doesn't stand still, that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marketplace and the museum.

In this collage of essays, meditations, poems, and travel reports, Clifford takes travel and its difficult companion, translation, as openings into a complex modernity. He contemplates a world ever more connected yet not homogeneous, a global history proceeding from the fraught legacies of exploration, colonization, capitalist expansion, immigration, labor mobility, and tourism. Ranging from Highland New Guinea to northern California, from Vancouver to London, he probes current approaches to the interpretation and display of non-Western arts and cultures. Wherever people and things cross paths and where institutional forces work to discipline unruly encounters, Clifford's concern is with struggles to displace stereotypes, to recognize divergent histories, to sustain "postcolonial" and "tribal" identities in contexts of domination and globalization.

Travel, diaspora, border crossing, self-location, the making of homes away from home: these are transcultural predicaments for the late twentieth century. The map that might account for them, the history of an entangled modernity, emerges here as an unfinished series of paths and negotiations, leading in many directions while returning again and again to the struggles and arts of cultural encounter, the impossible, inescapable tasks of translation.

 

   

                    

Title:     The anatomy of influence: literature as a way of life

Author:         Harold Bloom

 

'Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it', writes Harold Bloom in "The Anatomy of Influence", 'is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate'. For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads us through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years. The result is "a critical self-portrait", a sustained meditation on a life lived with and through the great works of the Western canon: Why has influence been my lifelong obsessive concern? Why have certain writers found me and not others? What is the end of a literary life? Featuring extended analyses of Bloom's most cherished poets - Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane - as well as inspired appreciations of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Ashbery, and others, "The Anatomy of Influence" adapts Bloom's classic work "The Anxiety of Influence" to show us what great literature is, how it comes to be, and why it matters. Each chapter maps startling new literary connections that suddenly seem inevitable once Bloom has shown us how to listen and to read. A fierce and intimate appreciation of the art of literature on a scale that the author will not again attempt, "The Anatomy of Influence" follows the sublime works it studies, inspiring the reader with a sense of something ever more about to be.

 

 

 

 


   

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