Nonigopal Roy, RU, 19 May 2019
Md. Hafizur Rahman Mollah has been promoted to Additional Librarian (grade-04) of Central Library and Information Center, Pabna University of Science and Technology (PUST), Pabna.
He joined as Assistant Librarian in 2010 at the same university. Prior to his new role, he worked as Deputy Librarian at PUST.
Mr Mollah completed his B.S.S (Hons.) and M.S.S degree in Information Science & Library Management from University of Rajshahi.
Ahasan, Dhaka, 19 May 2019
Government district public libraries throughout the country organized different activities in marking the 120th birth anniversary of the National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
The central public library also organized a book reading competition to remark this day. Different age group people including school and college level students took part in the competition. The event was held 14 to 15 May 2019 under active patronizing and support by Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.
Ahasan, Dhaka, 17 May, 2019
District government public library Sherpur organized a prize-giving ceremony on 06 May 2019 of the financial year 2018-19. The event was organised to celebrate different national days including International Mother Language Day, National Children’s Day, Independence and National Day, and Bangla New year 1426.
Several government officials were present as special guests while Mr Sazzadaul Karim, Librarian of the said library presided over the program.
TLT board helps students and library professionals succeed, by offering programs like TLT Sponsored Scheme Scholarship Award 2018. The board announced the first winner of the TLT Sponsored Scheme Scholarship Award 2018 on 8 April 2018. Today, I am pleased to share my experience with this award how this helped me in my student life.
Words are used for communication with people, mutual understanding, expressing the feeling of a person, but I don’t have any word to express my heartiest gratitude for obtaining TLT Sponsored Scheme Award 2018.
Apu, Dhaka, 19 May 2019
Three library professionals from East West University (EWU) namely Mr Tahur Ahmed, Mr M. Abdul Gani, and Ms Afrin Sultana have completed the online course titled “Research Writing in the Social Sciences” on 10 May 2019 organized by INASP and AuthorAID.
The course consisted of six units embarking on a research project, research and publication ethics, evidence base for a paper, preparing to write a research paper, writing a research paper and publishing a paper in a journal. The course was run between 26 February to 15 April 2019 (7 weeks).
Prodip Roy (ALIA DCP), Member, The Creative Commons Global Network
Lisbon, May 12, 2019
Photo Credit: Sebastiaan Ter
The Creative Commons Summit 2019 was held in Lisbon, Portugal. Creative Commons Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ryan Markley inaugurated the summit and it continues till Saturday, 11 May 2019.
Many people came together from around the world to participate in the Creative Commons Global Summit. The gathering was a chance for CC network members, digital rights activists, open content creators, and commons advocates to meet together, share information, and collaborate on projects. Since 2015, the CC Global Summit has nearly doubled in size. The Summit has grown every year as hundreds of leading activists, advocates, librarians, educators, lawyers, technologists, and more have joined for discussion and debate, workshops and planning, talks and community building.
Md. Ede Amin
Assistant Library Officer, North South University
A library is a mirror to show the reflection of culture and civilization of the world and in this sense academic libraries working to make sense clear. Academic libraries in Bangladesh working with the curricula of the institutions and carrying the information and materials to accelerates the knowledge of the community. Library and information professionals in Bangladesh working with the highest intellectual’s level but their work and effort not recognized in a fruitful manner.
Ahasan, Dhaka, 12 May, 2019
To solve the current problems of School and College level librarian’s meeting was held at the office of Director General, Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE)on 2 May 2019.
Ahasan, Dhaka, 12 May 2019
Archival Management plays an important role in protecting the existence of the state’-State Ministry of Cultural Affairs Mr KM Khalid, MP said as a Chief Guest on 05 May 2019 at National Library Auditorium, Agargoan, Dhaka. He said, the Department of Archives and Library, maintaining the responsibility of preserving government gazettes, recruitment, policies, agreements, protocols, valuable records, documents, state and public information through archival management.
Ahasan, Dhaka, 12 May 2019
To celebrate International Book Day, National Book Centre of Ministry of Cultural Affairs organized a seminar on Copyright Acts and Protecting Rights on 23 April 2019 at Poet Sufia Kamal Auditorium, National Museum, Dhaka.
Dr Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal, NDC Secretary in Charge, Ministry of Cultural Affairs was the chief guest while poet Nirmalenda Gun was the special guest in the event.
