About the Author
Originally a student of economics, Prof. Dr. K.M. Saiful Islam achieved Diploma, Certificate in French language and M.A.L.S. degree from the University of Karachi, Pakistan. Worked in daily Morning News, Karachi, and was Karachi Correspondent of weekly Holiday, Dhaka and wrote profusely in major newspapers of the erstwhile Pakistan on the current political, economic, social, cultural and language issues obtaining in the society.
An original, independent thinker, Prof. Saiful Islam presents and explains problems in a novel, succinct style in lucid, mellifluent language to make complex and intricate problems easily comprehensible.
He studied in and worked in Great Britain on scholarship for completing his Ph.D. thesis. Later he pursued post-doctoral research project on scholarship on public library systems and services in Britain, and on comparative studies in automation systems in Malaysia on scholarship administered by the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
He possesses teaching and work experiences of several decades in the universities of Karachi, Dhaka, Britain and Malaysia to specialize in cataloguing and classification. Author of several books, considerable number of research works appearing in national and international journals, and large number of research-oriented and popular articles. His Ph.D. thesis A Code for cataloguing and indexing Bangladeshi Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist names has been a great, original contribution to solving the outstanding, burning problems of the treatment of Bangladeshi oriental names in the libraries of Bangladesh. He gained international fame in contributing the ‘Bangladesh’ chapter in the international cataloguing manual/code: IFLA’s Names of persons: national usages for entry in catalogues published by K. G. Saur from München, New Providence, London and Paris in 1996 (briefly called IFLA UBCIM’96) which is used and taught throughout the world.
His biographical profile has appeared in nine international biographical sources including Who’s who in the world, New Providence, USA.
He is also a TV singer of Rabindrasangeet (Tagore songs.)