Dr. Alia Arshad is Associate Professor at the Institute of Information Management, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. She received her B.Sc., MLIS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of the Punjab. She has 13 years professional experience as a Librarian and Senior Librarian in Defence Public Library and University of the Punjab’s institutional and central library. Dr. Alia has more than 11 years teaching and research experience at the Institute of Information Management as a Lecturer, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor.
She is actively engaged in supervision of Ph.D., and M.Phil research students, and publishing papers along with teaching and institution’s administrative responsibilities. She has published more than 30 research papers in high quality journals and presented her research work in national and international conferences at Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Canada, and United Kingdom.
She is Coordinator of BS (4 Year) Information Mangement program and managing editor of Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries. She has been reviewer of web of science indexed journals - Journal of Information Science, Journal of Academic Librarianship, Library Hi Tech, and Information Development. She is also serving as a Research Wing Officer of American Association of Information Science and Technology, Special Interest Group III, 2024-2025.