The Pioneers: Anis Khurshid (1924–2008) — Zahiruddin Khurshid
Born in Kamptee, India, on 2 September 1924, Anis Khurshid received his high school degree in 1943 and joined the Indian government service the following year. His love for books goes back to 1941 when he started visiting a public library in the neighborhood and later joined its management team as secretary. He also was put in charge of his school library in the final year of high school. Following the partition of India, he migrated to Pakistan on 11 October 1947. Khurshid’s library career spans over half a century in which he worked tirelessly to advance his education from a certificate in librarianship to a doctoral degree, and his professional career from classifier to professor. His success story is full of inspiration for his students and colleagues to follow and narrating it here is the subject of this paper. Although there are many facets of Anis Khurshid, the author would like to describe only those that qualify him for inclusion in “The Pioneers” series of World Libraries.
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| Figure 1: Anis Khurshid. |