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Khagrachhari District Government Public Library organised several competitions including book reading, easy writing, recitation, and drawing on the occasion of the Independence Day and National Day of Bangladesh, Bangla New Year, and the 119th birth anniversary of the National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. To give awards and certificates, the library organised a prize and certificate award session on Tuesday 7 August 2018 at General Reading Room, District Government Public Library, Khagrachhari.

Mr Kongjori Chowdhury, Chairman, Khagrachhari Hill District Council was the chief guest while Mr Srila Talukder, Headmaster, Khagrachhari Government high school; Ms Rusdina Akter Jahan, Headmaster, Notunkuri Cantonment High School; Mr Remrachai Chowdhury, Member, Hill District Council and convener, District government public library, Khagrachhari attended the event as special guest. The chief guest provided the holy Tripotok books for distribution to all the readers as free of cost. The said books were received by Mr Oan Chakma, Officer, District Government Public Library, Khagrachhari.

These kinds of community involvement program of different government public libraries making a bridge between the community and library throughout the year. Different age groups of several educational institutions continuing students took part of the mentioned program.

  

Bangladesh Government has taken initiative to establish Bangabandhu Corner at each of the educational institutions. Books, articles, poems, statements, narration, interviews and documentaries will be given to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the library. Besides, there will also be authored textbooks on it. Ministry of Education will decide which books will be preserved in this corner of all 13 hundred books written on Bangabandhu. However, statistics will be collected regarding how much books have been published on Bangabandhu. For this, Ministry and others association cooperation will seek. (Source partial translation from Dainik Manabjomin)

As per news of 25 July “The government is planning to set up a corner at all secondary schools after the name of the country’s founding President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, aiming to inform next generation about his contribution.

‘We in principle decided to set up a Bangabandhu corner at the library of all schools,’ education ministry’s secondary and higher education division additional secretary Jabed Ahmed told New Age on Tuesday after holding a meeting at the secretariat.

‘We will set up Bangabandhu corner at some schools in the capital on a pilot basis. We are now working what kind of books and substances will be kept at the corner,’ he said.

‘We took the decision as reserved seat lawmaker Nasrin Akther last year proposed setting up a corner at school library named after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,’ said a top secondary and higher education division.

The government is planning to set up such corner at over 20,000 secondary schools when Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education in June this year asked all schools to collect a title on addresses of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also the eldest daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as a reference book.

Since 2017, National Curriculum and Textbook Board has printed Sheikh Hasina’s photograph on the back cover of the textbooks for Class I-V in line with the recommendation of the parliamentary standing on primary and mass education ministry.

The DSHE in 2014 asked all educational institutions to collect three books on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman written by a bureaucrat.

The parliamentary standing committee on primary and mass education ministry in June 2017 recommended display of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s portrait in every primary school classroom and office.

Textbooks for primary and secondary contain several photographs of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and contents on him.

There is a writing titled Mukijuddhader Katha with a photo of Sheikh Mujib in Class I Bangla textbook, a short biography of Sheikh Mujib titled Amader Jatir Pita with three pictures in Class III Bangladesh and Global Studies textbook, a photo in Class IV Bangladesh and Global studies textbook showing Sheikh Mujib delivering his historic March 7 speech and a writing titled Amader Khoka and a sketch of Sheikh Mujib with a poem Muktir Chhara in Class IV Bangla textbook.”

Source: The New Age on 25 July

Ahasan, Dhaka, 12 August 2018

Mr Md. Azizur Rahman, Deputy Librarian, Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University(JKKNIU), Trishal, Mymensingh has been awarded Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from University of Kalyani, Nodia, West Bengal, India.

His field of working area was ‘’Quality indicators for Library and Information Science education in Bangladesh: Designing a framework” which was supervised by Dr Sibsankar Jana.

Dr Rahman’s home district is Rajshahi (P.O Sopura P.S Boaila). He was the first batch honours student of Department of Library and Information Science, University of Rajshahi. After completing his MSS degree he started his career as a Lecture of Institute for Library & Information studies (ILIS) Kazla, Rajshahi, then switch to   Cantonment Public College and joined as a Librarian. After that, he started his job as Assistant Librarian at Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Trishal, Mymensingh. Later on, he has been promoted to Deputy Librarian. He has about twenty-four publications:

The list of his publication is given below:

S.L No	Title Name	Name of journal with ISSN	Volume, Issue & Page	Date of Publication
01.	Role of library in Creating Reading Habit: Some Thoughts in the context	Granthagar, Kolkata, India 0017-324X	64 (9) Pp.248-250	December,2014
02.	Trends in Citation pattern in Agricultural Doctoral thesis of Bangladesh	Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 2348-7186 (print), 2321-8819  (online)	3(1) pp. 160-174	January 2015
03.	Present Scenarios and Future prospect of electronic Resources of Some Selected Public University of Bangladesh: a study	LiNE, University of Kalyani 978-81-930849-0-8	pp. 70-77	January 2015
04.	State of Libraries in Primary Training  Institute(PTI) : Context Bangladesh	Granthagar, Kolkata, India 0017-324X	65(3) pp. 81-88	June 2015
05.	Connotation and denotation of LIS Education In Bangladesh	IISRR- International Journal of Research 2394-6873 (online) 2394-885X (print) www.iisrr.in	1(3) pp. 110-119	July 2015
06.	Journal of Structural  Engineering : a bibliometric   Study	International Journal Of Innovative Knowledge Concept 2454-2415 www.ijjikc.co.in	1(2) Pp 63-70	August 2015
07.	Community Information Services In Bangladesh and Role of Library Association of Bangladesh	All India IASLIC Conference Preceding, Gujrat University , India	Preceding Volume will be published very soon with ISBN	December,2015
08.	Development of Digital Libraries in Bangladesh : Present condition & Future Prospect	Emerging Challenges and opportunities of Central Government Libraries in the Digital Era, Kolkata 978-81-927360-0-7	pp.11-16	January 2016
09.	Information seeking behaviors of faculty members and research scholar of agricultural  University libraries in Bangladesh	Research Journal of Library Science 2320-8929	4(2) pp 1-8 www.isca.in	February 2016
10.	Lifelong Learning: key tools for knowledge society	Exertion to Establish knowledge Society : Responsibility of Academic  libraries 978-81-922902-9-4	10(1) pp 536 – 541	September 2016
11.	Jatiya Kabi Kazi  Nazrul Islam University: some aspects in the context of Bangladesh	Granthagar, Kolkata, India 0017-324X	66 (9) Pp.17-20	December,2016
12.	Library Movement and LIS Education In Bangladesh : A Birds eye view	LiNE, University of Kalyani 978-81-930849-0-8	Preceding Volume will be published very soon with ISBN	December,2016
13.	Development  of Digital libraries   in Bangladesh : Some Issues and Challenges	LiNE, University of Kalyani 978-81-930849-0-8	Preceding Volume will be published very soon with ISBN	December,2016
14.	Towards assessing User’s needs and satisfaction in the Central Library of JKKNIU, Bangladesh : an analytical Study	IASLIC 27th  National  seminar Proceeding, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur , India	Preceding Volume will be published very soon with ISBN	December,2016
15.	Development of LIS Domain in Bangladesh : A critical Study	Librarian Jadavpur University, India 0972-3978	23(1) Pp 63-73	July 2016
16.	Making Community stronger : role of Public library as a catalyst for the Development of local Community	International  Conference on Lifelong learning in developing Countries : Issues and Perspective University of kalyani, India	Preceding Volume will be published very soon with ISSN	February 2017
17.	Life long learning for all : Role of Public library as a Catalyst for the Development of local Community	International  Conference on Lifelong learning in developing Countries : Issues and Perspective University of kalyani, India	Preceding Volume will be published very soon with ISSN	February 2017
18.	MOOCs: Massive opportunities for the lifelong learning	International  Conference on Lifelong learning in developing Countries : Issues and Perspective University of kalyani, India	Preceding Volume will be published very soon with ISSN	February 2017
19.	Readership Analysis : a case study of Some Selected Libraries of Mymensingh  town in Bangladesh	Submitted to the article International Journal of Information Studies and library  management	Submitted Article for publication purpose	June 2016
20.	Origin & Development of LIS Education in Bangladesh : a historical study	Submitted to the article International journal of Library and Information science	Submitted Article for publication purpose	February 2017
21.	State of the Secondary School libraries in  Bangladesh and the task	Granthagar, Kolkata, India 0017-324X	67 (1) Pp.4-6	April 2017
22	Expansion and Extension of LIS Education in Bangladesh: a historical study	International Journal of Information Management (IJIM) 2456-0553 www.ijim.in	2(V) Pp 99-103	September 2017
23.	Present status of Government libraries in Bangladesh : issue and challenges	International conference by CGLA	Pp 12-19 978-81-927360-0-7	January.2018
24	Role of library movement and development of LIS education in Bangladesh	Granthagar, Kolkata, India 0017-324X	Pp 10-14	March 2018

 

On behalf of the Librarian Times congratulations to Dr Md. Azizur Rahman.

 

 

Learning Outcome: This webinar ‘How to conduct a reference interview? The role of the reference librarian in higher education’ will give you a better understanding of the importance of reference interview and its effectiveness to satisfy information seekers with their information needs.
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Mahtab Uddin Ahmad started his professional career in Dhaka University at History Department’s seminar library and participated in Library Certificate Course from Bangladesh Library Association.  He earned his Diploma a master’s in library science from Dhaka University.  He worked in several other libraries, including – (1) International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) as documentation assistant, (2) Library of Congress Dhaka Office as representative, (3) The Archer K. Blood American Center Library, Dhaka (4) Chantilly Regional Library , Virginia, USA and (5) currently working at Strayer University Library, USA.

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Joynal, Dhaka 4 August 2018

A four-member team led by Ms Jesmine Akhter, Director General (Additional Secretary) of Bangladesh National Scientific and Technical Documentation Centre (BANSDOC) is currently on an official visit to different Govt. and national level library and information institutions/organizations in Australia. The purpose of their visit is to learn about the Australian Library and Information Sector and ALIA’s Accreditation of Library Courses as well as the ALIA PD Scheme. On the occasion, they visited the Australian National Library and ALIA House. The week-long visit will end on August 6, which started on July 29, 2018. It is expected that the gathered knowledge of this visit will add extra value in practising documentation, library and information services within BANSDOC and in the profession.

Other members of the visiting team include Mrs Iti Rani Poddar (Additional Secretary (NP), Ministry of Science and Technology, Mr Mohammad Aslam Ali Khandkar, Photographic Officer, BANSDOC and Mr Md. Sayem Khan, Junior Reprographic Officer, BANSDOC.

Ahasan, Dhaka, 4 August 2018

Prof. Dr Mofakhar Hussain Khan, the former librarian of the University of Dhaka, has received an ‘Honorarium Crest’ from the Ahmed Smriti Patagar. An event was organized at Shamsur Rahaman hall at the premise of Bangla Academy on 28 July 2018.

Dr Khan studied different educational intuition at Bangladesh, USA and UK. He worked in different countries like Bangladesh, Iran, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. Currently, he is living at Kaliganj Upazila in Gazipur.

After receiving the award Prof. Khan expressed his feeling about the devotion of work and its importance. All participants in the event listened to his speech very deeply.

Prof. Shamsuzzaman Khan, Director General of Bangla Academy was the chief guest of the event while Mr M. Shamsul Islam Khan was the special guest of the event who was the former president of Library Association of Bangladesh. Mr Fazle Rabbi, former Director of Bangla Academy, National Book Centre, and founder of Ahmed Smriti Patagar presided over the program. The welcome speech was given by Mr Kazi Abdul Majed, Director Institute of Library and Information Science, Dhaka. Mr Khandaker Fazlur Rahman, former Librarian, University of Dhaka emphasized on biography in brief on Dr Khan. In addition, former Chairman of Jessore Education Board Mr Amirul Alam Khan discussed on Library movement activities of Bangladesh and its contribution of Dr Khan. Economist and Journalist Mr Azadul Kibria conducted this segment of the event.

Invited guests and speakers shared their opinion on the knowledge-based society and its legacy towards civilization and how the library played a pivotal role, what contributions of Dr Mofakhar had towards the society. Attended guests criticized the result oriented education system, memorizing system, misuse of technology. How the society can overcome these challenges also pointed out. Sufficient budget for library and with the modernization of it by converting the characteristics of true information, special mark for using the library at school level may be the solutions to face the prevailing problems.

 

To know more about Prof. Dr Mofakhar, read his short biography here.