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Pakistan Parliamentary Libraries: A Historical Excursion and Hopes for the Future
- Library Trends
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 58, Number 4, Spring 2010
- pp. 527-548
- 10.1353/lib.2010.0005
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Pakistan's parliamentary libraries reflect the challenges that the democratic institutions they serve have faced since independence in 1948. This article provides a historical context to the development of the bicameral parliament in Pakistan and four provincial assemblies. It describes the founding and development of parliamentary library and research services in that context and presents some of the newest innovations and reforms that the institutions have initiated in recent years.