Role of libraries in teaching – learning during the pandemic: An online workshop held

21 January 2021,

Nawshaba Bulia

 

The iSAPT Virtual Academy (A research wing of iSAPT Virtual Academy) arranged an online workshop on “Role of Libraries in Teaching and Learning During the Pandemic” on 16 January 2021 at iSAPT Young Researchers Forum (iSAPTYRF) using the zoom Cloud Platform. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused an unprecedented crisis in all areas. As a result, the situation has led to the massive closure of face-to-face activities of educational institutions in every country.

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LAB election 2020: Mizanur-Tushar-Sakhawat panel won the Library Association Bangladesh election!

Md. Mizanur Rahman was elected as the president and Md. Hamidur Rahman Tushar was elected as the Secretary-General of the Library Association Bangladesh (LAB).  

The election for the 2021-2023 term was held on Saturday, December 26, 2020 at the Government Teachers Training College from 8 am to 4 pm. The members of Dhaka division exercised their right to vote directly in this election. The election was held simultaneously in eight divisions including Dhaka. » Read more

How to use Turnitin? Online training session held at Southeast University Library

Amrita Das, January 17, 2021

Southeast University Library with the cooperation of Mr. Varun Piplani (Senior Specialist) Turnitin Education Pvt. Ltd arranged an online training session on “How to use Turnitin software” for their faculty members on 24th December, 2021. The session began with a special speech delivered by Mr. Varun Piplani on the importance of using Turnitin software in public and private universities. Then he demonstrated a few important features of Turnitin software as well as showed how to check the similarity of a research paper. As an administrator Mrs. Amrita Rani Dash moderated the session. The convenor of Turnitin Software Purchase Committee of Southeast University Prof. Dr. Engr. Muhibul Haque Bhuyan thanked everyone and concluded the program.

Turnitin is a plagiarism detection and deterrent application, available to instructors within WebCampus Assignments.

The librarian Times family and LIS professionals mourn the death of Dr Md Nazim Uddin

Prodip Roy, Melbourne, 24 December 2020

Dr Md Nazim Uddin, Senior Manager and Head, Library and Information Services, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) passed away on 23 December 2020 at 10.00 PM in Dhaka (Inna lillahi Oa Inna Ilahi Razeun) due to complications from COVID-19. He was admitted to the United Hospital Dhaka for the treatment of COVID-19 and pneumonia.  

Dr Nazim was engaged with The Librarian Times activities in many ways. He was the Chair of TLT Awards Selection Committee for 2019 and played a significant role in nominating the awardees. 

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Why the library services need to adopt the concept of service science? ULAB Library presents a webinar!

December 4, 2020

Kamal Hossain, Deputy Librarian
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB)
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) library hosted a webinar titled Shaping Library Services in the Post-pandemic era: service science context on 1 December 2020.
Dr Md. Mukhlesur Rahman, Researcher at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan conducted the session.
The presenter focused on service science from a social engineering point of view. The session was successful in describing different issues to handle complex systems as well as directs how service systems interact and evolve to improve the circumstance compared to other systems with a specific focus on organizational restructuring, changing service management approach, integrating technologies in the service process and innovation, etc.

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Chapter of the Year 2020: South Asia Chapter of ASIS&T

Md. Anwarul Islam, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Information Science and Library Management and

Chair of the South Asia Chapter, ASIS&T (2019-2020)

Photo: The writer with the ASIS&T President, Clara M. Chu

My journey with ASIS&T started in 2015 as a PhD student. It was an eye-opening meeting for me to meet famous people under one roof. The various Chapters, SIGs, Committees, the annual meeting and webinars make the association vibrant and useful for an early career researcher like me. For me, it was a matchmaking place of finding great researchers in my research areas. Slowly but surely I got involved with the membership committee, Asia Pacific Chapter, SIG-III, SIG-KM and other volunteering activities.

Over the last five years, I have participated in every annual meeting except 2016. I had served in a variety of panels and presentations, published in ASIS&T publications as author and served as a reviewer.

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Open Access Week 2020: Awareness of Open Access in Bangladesh

The School of Business, Bangladesh Open University is hosting an event on the Open Access Week (October 19-25) on its Foundation Day (21st October 2020).  The event will be arranged in collaboration and partnership with The Librarian Times, Creative Commons Bangladesh Chapter, and Centre for Open Knowledge to deliver an informative and exciting discussion session on all things Open Access.

The panel members will discuss the current challenges of open access, benefits of open access, OER, open textbook, open license, copyrights law, open access policy in Bangladesh, Plan S and most recent activities of open access worldwide.

The panellist for the discussion session are:

Professor Mostafa Azad Kamal, Dean, The School of Business, Bangladesh Open University

Mr Munir Hasan, Head, Youth Program, Prothom Alo and General Secretary, Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN)

Dr Susmita Das, Centre for Open Knowledge and Ambassador, cOAlition S & Plan S

Prodip Roy AALIA (DCP), Editor in Chief, The Librarian Times, CCGN, Australia

The event will be moderated by M. M. Shoeb (Deputy Director), North South University Central Library.

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Vice-Chancellor, Islamic University of Technology visits the library

Photo: Vice-Chancellor, Islamic University Prof. Dr Mohammad Rafiqul Islam along with the library staff

Vice-Chancellor, Islamic University of Technology Prof. Dr Mohammad Rafiqul Islam reiterated the role libraries play in facilitating higher studies, the library vision and mission should inform the users from time to time as he visited the IUT library on 09 September 2020.

On the Vice-Chancellor’s visits Mr Md. Ahasan Habib, Librarian (In-Charge) delivered a presentation on the IUT Library System and Services. In the presentation, he focused on the current institutional repository systems, integrated library management system, Turnitin similarity checking, international connectivity and the library’s future plans. Mr Ahasan also explained how the library is continuing with the special services during the COVID -19 pandemic situation. The presentation session was very much interactive and lively.

Later on, Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor looked at the library physical facilities and exchanged views with the users of the library. There he also met with the library staff.

 

 

 

 

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