Children’s book illustration exhibition begins at British Council Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar

TLT, 30 June 2019

Photo: Dhaka Tribune

Drawing Words, an exhibition of children’s book illustration, begins at British Council Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar to encourage the young readers to drawings. The exhibition is open daily at the British Council on Fuller Road in Dhaka from June 28 to July 11 and at Cox’s Bazar District Government Public Library from June 29 to 30. The exhibition remains open for all from 10 am to 7 pm daily at the two locations.

Read more: https://www.dhakatribune.com/showtime/2019/06/26/children-s-book-illustration-exhibition-to-begin-in-dhaka-and-cox-s-bazar

 

10 minute school launches digital English language content library

Photo: UNB

10 Minute School (an online school project of Robi) has launched a digital English language content library in collaboration with the British Council. The content covers basic skills like English grammar rules, phrase-idiom, pronunciation, tense, article, common mistake in English, and professional skills like presentation, email communication, IELTS etc. There is also a Language Club Sessions through which learners could join live and learn English with fun. It can be easily accessible through its Android-based mobile app or the website

www.robi10minuteschool.com

Prize giving ceremony held at Narail District Government Public Library

Rajesh, Noakhali, 23 June 2019

Photo: collected from the Facebook page of Narail District Government Public Library

District government public library Narail organised a book reading competition and prize-giving ceremony on 15 June 2019. The event was organised under the project ‘Online Library management and Development’ directed by Department of Public Libraries. Mr Mukul Kumar Moitra, UNO, Lohagara, Narail attended the program as the chief guest while the program was presided by Mr Tazmul Islam, Librarian, Narail District Government Public Libraries. A good number of participants participated in that competition and the winners were awarded after the competition on that event.

Two-day long ‘ULAB Book Fair’ held at ULAB

Ahasan, Dhaka, 22 June 2019

Photo: Collected from Facebook

A two-day-long ULAB Book Fair 2019 was held from 14-15 June 2019 at ULAB along with International Conference theme “Rivers and Religion” which is being jointly organized by the South & Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture & Religion (SSEASR) and University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB). ULAB Vice Chancellor, Professor H. M. Jahirul Haque has inaugurated the book fair. The event was very much lively where 16 publishers participated.

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Jahangir Alam has been promoted to University Librarian at International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC)

TLT, 22 June 2019

Mr Md. Jahangir Alam has been promoted to University Librarian at the International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC) on 15 June 2019. Previously, Mr Jahangir worked at IIUC as Additional Librarian and Librarian (In-charge) for two years. He has a total of thirteen years of professional experiences in different university libraries including IIUC, Eastern University, Manarat International University, and Northern University Bangladesh. He also served as an Adjunct Faculty at Daffodil International University (DIU) and IIUC in the Department of Library and Information Science.

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Md. Anwarul Islam and Shohana Akter have been announced as the 3rd Prize winners!

TLT Desk

8 June 2019

The 2019 International Paper Contest (IPC) committee, with jury members in China, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Turkey, and Zimbabwe has recently announced the contest winners names!

 
The paper titled “Perceived Value of Social Media in Students’ Participation in Social Movement: A Developing Country Perspective” by Md. Anwarul Islam and Shohana Akter, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh has been selected for the 3rd place in this competition.
Shohana Bhuiyan Shathi was a master’s thesis student of Md. Anwarul Islam in 2018. Anwar supervised her to conduct the study on “Perceived Value of Social Media in Students’ Participation in Social Movements: A Developing Country Perspective.”

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2nd LIS Academy Conference on Innovations In Libraries: Three LIS Academic/Professionals are representing Bangladesh

TLT Report

6 June 2019

LIS Academy in collaboration with Department of Public Libraries and Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi is hosting its 2nd National Conference on “Innovations in Libraries” at VTU Belagavi on 6-9 June 2019 to create a platform to discuss and deliberate the best innovations in Libraries.

Three Bangladeshi LIS Academic/Professionals are representing Bangladesh at this conference.

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Library Orientation Program for Summer-2019 held at NSU Library

Tanveer Ahsan, Dhaka, 02 May 2019

The orientation program aimed to focus on the library facilities and to provide valuable information on how to use the library resources and services such as membership, book & e-resources search, Current Awareness Service (CAS), remote access, research help, etc. effectively. The sessions were conducted by professional library personnel of NSU following a library tour program held in the various sections.

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LIS Promotion News! Mr Mohammad Faroque Hossain has been promoted to Deputy Librarian

Mr Mohammad Faroque Hossain

Mr Mohammad Faroque Hossain has been promoted to Deputy Librarian at Jagannath University, Dhaka. Before this, he continued as an Assistant Librarian of the same University.

Earlier, Mr Faroque worked at Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA).

He completed his honours and masters in Information Science and library management from Dhaka University.

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