Sazzadul Karim wins TLT Excellence Public Librarian Award 2021 (The Public Librarian of the Year Award)

The Dept. of Public Libraries, Ministry of Cultural Affairs has nominated Sazzadul Karim for the Public Librarian of the Year 2021 Award in recognising his accomplishment in the public library sector in Bangladesh. The award includes a crest, 10000 BDT, certificate and gifts by the event sponsor. Recipients of the award will be invited to an event at the Department of Information Science and Library Management, the University of Dhaka in due course. 

He has been working in spreading the public library movement among the country’s mass people through the public library’s different activities and campaigns since his joining the Dept. of Public Libraries, Ministry of Cultural Affairs.

He is working as an Assistant Director (Library) at the Sherpur District Government Public Library under the Directorate of Public Libraries, People’s Republic of Bangladesh. He worked on different Library Automation projects with British Council Dhaka, Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, Dhaka University Central Library, Seminar library of Department of English and Population Science of the University of Dhaka.

Mr Karim has obtained both a Bachelor and Master degree in Information Science & Library Management from the University of Dhaka in 2014 and 2015. He participated in different seminars, training and workshops on library and information management, office administration, leadership, APA, NIS, innovation, e-nothi, and web-portal.