University of the Punjab.

Dr. Amara Malik is an accomplished Pakistani scholar and academician serving as Assistant Professor at the University of the Punjab, where she is affiliated with the Institute of Information Management. She completed her PhD in Library and Information Science from the same institution and pursued postdoctoral research at the Indiana University Bloomington as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2024–2025). Her research focuses on information literacy, misinformation on social media, digital literacy, health information behavior, and emerging technologies in libraries.
Dr. Malik has published extensively in internationally recognized journals, including Library Hi Tech, Information Development, Health Communication, Journal of Information Science, Journal of Academic Librarianship, and Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication. She has received several academic distinctions, including a Gold Medal in her master’s degree and international research awards from the Association for Information Science and Technology. In addition to her scholarly contributions, she actively serves the global LIS community through professional organizations such as IFLA and ASIS&T, contributing to research collaboration, editorial activities, and academic leadership in Pakistan and beyond.
She enjoys a diverse experience of teaching variety of courses such as LIS as Profession and Academic Discipline, Information Services, Personal Information Management, Collection Development and Management, Emerging Technologies, Advanced Management and Leadership to Master and MPhil programs at IIM. Among her other responsibilities, she is a focal person of the Department for various committees at university level: Career Counseling & Placement Services, ORIC, QEC to name a few. She served as convener in International Conference of Information Management and Libraries (ICIML) twice in 2015 & 2018