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Syeda Mukta Begum 8 February 2019

Asia Open Access (OA) is an extraordinary discussion facilitated by Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) in which individuals from the Asian OA network can share data, meet one another and manufacture connections. It has a mailing list and arranges gatherings to encourage more prominent trade past national limits. It observes Asian social assorted variety and remarkable method for getting things done. The Asia (OA) meeting will give a chance to find out about worldwide patterns, share data crosswise over Asian nations, and help with neighbourhood procedures for expanding the selection of open access and open science in the nation as well as in Bangladesh.

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Nonigopal Roy, RU. 6 February 2019

Rajshahi University (RU) Central Library and Department of Information Science and Library Management, jointly celebrated The National Library Day, 2019 in Rajshahi on 5 February based on the theme –“Build Enlighten People through Reading Books in the Library.”

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The North South University Central Library recently organized a series of orientation programs for the new students on library facilities and services. Around 1300 students (about 74% of total students) of spring 2019 semester attended the program on January 21, 22 and 24, 2019 in different schedules of the respected days. Earlier Dr Md. Zahid Hossain Shoeb, University Librarian, addressed to the fresher’s in the central orientation program on January 19, 2019.

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Apu, Dhaka, 10 February 2019

East West University Library observed the National Library Day on 05 February 2019 aiming at building an educated and enlightened nation and making the people more library-oriented. The theme of the National Library Day 2019 is “গ্রন্থাগারে বই পড়ি আলোকিত মানুষ গড়ি”.  On this day honourable President and Prime Minister Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh delivered a special message giving importance of libraries.

As a part of the celebration of national library day, EWU library was decorated with a colourful balloon, festoon, banners, posters etc to make the library users aware about the importance of the library in lifelong learning. » Read more

To observe “National Library Day” as declared by the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, BALID in collaboration with Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and Pacific (CIRDAP) is going to organize a Seminar on “Library vs Internet” on Saturday, 23 February 2019 at 2:30 pm at CIRDAP International Conference Centre (CICC) , Chameli House, 17 Topkhana Road, Dhaka.

Theme: Library vs Internet

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A two days training program on “Library Automation Using SLiMS” is going to be started from 15 to 16 February 2019 at the Digital Access Centre, KUET Central Library, Khulna. SLiMS is an open source library automation software. Library Association of Bangladesh (LAB), Library Association of Khulna Division and KUET Central Library, Khulna will jointly organize the program. The purpose of the training is to enhance library automation skill of the library professionals and students of Khulna division.

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Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists(BALID) has initiated a series of programs to celebrate the National Library Day 2019.

Programmes are:

5^th February

◊ To participate rally, Discussion session and cultural event etc

Date and Time: 5th February 2019 at 8:30 am (Rally)

Date and Time: 5th February 2019 at 3:00 pm (Discussion session followed by Cultural Event)

Place: Department of Public Libraries, Shahbag, Dhaka

23 February 2019

◊ BALID and CIRDAP Joint venture Seminar at CIRDAP International Conference Centre

Time: 2:30 pm

Programme details will be announced soon.

Please keep an eye at BALID Website: www.balid.org

All BALID members are cordially invited to attend the above mentioned programmes to make the event successful.

Tanveer Ahasan, NSU, 3 January 2019

Honourable High Commissioner of Canada in Bangladesh His Excellency Benoit Prefontaine with his wife visited North South University Central Library on January 19, 2019. The purpose of the visit was to see the NSU Library entire facilities, resources, access to information, research support, library space and the effect of services.

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Syeda Mukta Begum, January 27, 2019

A meeting of the National Committee of the National Library Day was held on 16 January 2019 at 11:00 AM in the Ministry of Culture’s Affairs. The meeting was held as an introductory to make a decision and finalise the National Library Day theme for 2019 which is going to be held on 5 February in Bangladesh. The theme for National Library Day 2019 is ‘Read books in libraries, Make enlightened people”(গ্রন্থাগারে বই পড়ি আলোকিত মানুষ গড়ি)

The Secretary of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs (MOCA) presided over the meeting. Members of the National Committee were present in the meeting. President of LAB and Chairman and Secretary General of BALID along with other executive committee members were present in the meeting to make the day successful one.

Photo: Hamidur Rahman Tushar Facebook page

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Ahasan Habib Dhaka, 27 January 2019

Professor Dr Md. Shariful  Islam and Associate Professor Dr. Md. Nazmul  Islam, Department of Information Science and Library Management (ISLM), University of Rajshahi presented a paper titled “Investigating the Perceived Services of Union Digital Centre (UDC) in Rural Areas of Bangladesh: A Study on Selected UDC of Godagari Upazila, Rajshahi” at the Library and Information Science Conference, Sapporo, Japan. Md. Aktarul Islam, MSS research fellow of ISLM, University of Rajshahi was another author of the mentioned paper.

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