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Librarian behavior has brought a positive change in the students' lives. Librarian love encourages the students' stay in the public libraries of high schools. A decade ago, the world paid a high price for corporal punishment; in turn, the students faced a high level of stress and anxiety. However, UNESCO has launched a slogan, 'No punishment but love' all over the world. Therefore, this study measures the impact of librarian love on students' personality development, e.g., discipline, emotional behavior, and perceived respect. Additionally, this study sees whether the high school librarians perceive a positive impact on their discipline, emotional behavior, and respect towards love. The study targeted 45 high schools of District Sheikhupura in the province of Punjab. The researcher personally distributed 480 survey questionnaires among the library teachers; however, 403 were returned valid and filled. The survey questionnaire was translated into Urdu, a native language of Pakistan, because it was too difficult to collect data from the English school. Smart PLS 3.3.3 was applied to test the model, and the study meets the measurement scales' criteria of validity and reliability. The study supported that librarian love has a significant and positive influence on students' discipline, emotional behavior, and perceived respect. It means librarian love brings a positive change in the personality and academic performance of the students in terms of discipline, emotional behavior, and respect. The study provides the guidelines as policy implications to the school education departments to ensure the strategy of love by the librarians so that the habit of spending more and more at libraries would be common.

While technology has enabled academic libraries to go digital, it requires a librarian with great knowledge and real-world experience to perform the job well. To address this issue, a librarian equipped with skills for digitization and digitalization is key. Academic libraries have always used digitalization to encourage librarian behaviors. This research examines the effects of negative/positive librarian behavior patterns on student personality and academic performance immediately. The project is an endeavor to better understand how teachers' actions impact their students' performance and personality. The present study acknowledges the library education dynamics and the way that student performance and personality are linked to librarian behaviors, specifically in the context of advanced public universities (HEIs). This research involved administering surveys to Pakistani students at HEIs. The investigator requested the students of the HEIs to respond to positive and negative behavior and attitude as exhibited by the librarians. The students proposed that professors and faculty tell students how the behavior of librarians influences their own performance and personality. The investigation found that the student's academic performance and personality were strongly impacted by the librarian's positive feelings, while the librarian's attitude was greatly influenced by the student's performance. This research also offers managerial implications and directions for future study.

Higher academic institutions are now focusing on capturing the behaviors of the postgraduate students towards digital libraries. It depends on the conditions of assessing the psychological needs of both parties in which service-provider provides services to recipient and recipient reciprocate service-provider in turn to their services. Drawing from service-encounter needs theory (SENT), this study measures the service quality of the digital library of the Pakistan higher education commission (HEC) and student behaviors using the digital library. Interestingly, this study tests the service quality of the HEC digital library in the sight of postgraduate students of the public and private Universities in Punjab, Pakistan. By collecting data from 403 postgraduate students, the study uses a convenient sampling approach using designed survey questionnaires. Out of 403, 305 survey questionnaires were valid and reliable so, the response rate was 75.68%. By testing the 2nd order measurement model, the study supported the direct significant and positive impact of service quality on student satisfaction. Interestingly, satisfaction is a psychological indicator of enhancing loyalty behaviors (Zhang and Bloemer, 2008). Furthermore, this study supported the mediating role of student satisfaction between service quality and student loyalty behaviors: intention to revisit (IRT), words of mouth (WOM), and willingness to pay more (WPM) and to extend the literature of loyalty behaviors. The results showed that there was a partially significant mediating relationship between overall service quality and among RPI, WOM, and WPM. Interestingly, student satisfaction had the highest mediating link between service quality and WOM. This research guides and recommends higher education commission (HEC) provide the database structure and equipment for searching research articles and books to the postgraduate students so, that they can easily achieve literature studies on the same subject. Moreov

Versatile leadership theories have been practiced to organizational sustainability last decade. Interestingly, authentic leadership has been proved to have effective practical implications to ensure organizational sustainability. Drawing from authentic leadership theory, this research aims at exploring the direct and indirect effect of authentic leadership on knowledge-management: explicit and tacit knowledge sharing behavior about public libraries in higher educational institutions (HEIs). This research employed an affective commitment mechanism to mediate the relationship between authentic leadership and knowledge-management. By using a sequential explanatory research design, this research collected data from the professors of public HEIs. The research administered 368 designed survey Questionnaires among the professors of public HEIs in Lahore, Pakistan. The research findings supported that authentic leadership has a direct significant effect on knowledge-management: explicit and tacit knowledge sharing behavior. Nevertheless, the research explored that authentic leadership has an indirect effect on tacit knowledge sharing behavior but didn’t influence explicit knowledge sharing behavior indirectly by the mediating role of affective commitment. To cope with these empirical findings, the research conducted 15 in-depth interviews to explore what type of factors creates hurdles in sharing explicit knowledge in the presence of emotional attachment: affective organizational commitment. This study suggests managers motivate professors to be committed within HEIs. In this way, the professors will be able to share tacit knowledge (hidden ideas and concepts, library images, library portfolios, and library-novelty) among the peers. The present study also concludes with limitations and future research.

Different models and theories have been tested in educational institutions to predict academic performance of the students. With the development of the technology and the advancement of communication channels, this study explores the impact of the usage of technology on student’ academic performance. For this purpose, the study aims at hiring technology acceptance model (TAM) to test the effect of the usage of social media on academic performance. TAM-core variables are comprised of five variables including perceived ease of use of social media, perceived usefulness of social media, intention to use of social media, and actual use of social media. Interestingly, the study sees the effect of TAM-core variables predicting academic performance of the postgraduate students by the moderating of academic self-efficacy. The study used Quantitative research method by adopting design survey questionnaires. First, the study administered survey questionnaires among the postgraduate students of public and private universities. The study found that there was the significant links among TAM-core variables. In addition, actual use of social media was found to have significant and positive impact on academic performance. Moreover, academic self-efficacy was found to have the moderating role between actual use of social media and academic performance. Second, the study uses Qualitative research method by conducting face-to-face interviews to support the academic self-efficacy of the students to respond academic performance positively. The study identified personal and socio-contextual factors further categorizing into other factors. Finally, the study contributes to future directions, limitations and practical implications.

Using the firm level pannel data analysis, this study develops to explore the preliminary determinants of capital structure of banking firms of Pakistan. The findings discover the idea of major determinants from the perspective of previous theories of capital structure are size of the firm, profitability in terms of return on assets and return on equity after taxes and Gross Domestic Product GDP over a period of time. The capital choice decision for the banking firms in Pakistan is symmetric to the pecking order theory explaining the fact that there is negative and sigfncaint association between leverage and return on equity after taxes. The significant difference across the banking firms and some financial limitation are the factors which are influencing the decision of debt-to-equity mixture. We have used Pannel Data models like least square dummy variable model LSDVM, Fixed effect mode, random effect model and pooled regression mode. Through statistical tests our results are in favor of random effect regression outcomes. Furthermore outcomes are quite beneficial for the managers while defining the optimum level of debt to equity mixture especially in the banking sector. Keywords: Leverage, GDP, size, pecking order, capital structure