AUKL also provides Reference Service. Users may ask queries via telephone (057-9153263) or through e-mail: [email protected]

Searching Assistance

For items not located on the shelf or easily accessible in the catalog, inquiry can be made at the circulation desk where assistance will be provided.

Current Awareness Service (CAS)

Through Fresh Arrivals information about new additions to the collection is regularly send to all members via e-mail. New additions remain on New Arrival’s Shelf for a week before sending to their relevant sections. Press Clippings containing news about higher education is also circulated through e-mail.

Inter Library Loan (ILL)

Material (including books, magazine/journal articles or newspaper articles) not owned by AUKL can be borrowed from any other Pakistani library. Initially this service is limited to some local university libraries only. This service is available to all AUKL library members at no charge.

Please first verify unavailability of the required material in AUKL collection by checking library catalogue. For any such material request can be made through ILL Request Form available at circulation desk. The request is send to other libraries through e-mail or via telephone. When request is met the external library sends the original item or a photocopy of it. It can take 3 week or more to get the required item.

Online Searching

Three terminals are dedicated for online database searching.