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INASP-PERI (BIPC) e-Resources
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Library
Central Library of BCSIR
Library Systems |
The three storied central library building, which has a floor space of 8880 sq. ft. stands close to the laboratories. It is a compact library with built-in-facilities to provide various services to scientists, technologists, researchers, teachers and students and to perform administrative and technical jobs. This library is primarily a reference and research library for the use of scientists and technologists of BCSIR and visiting scientists, teachers and students of other like minded conducted by scientific organizations. The administration of the library system is under the Principal Librarian.
All acquisitions and cataloguing activities are carried out in the library, which maintain an accession register, a catalogue of holdings The library, unique in character in the country on science and industry provides information services to the scientists and researchers of the country. Besides the Central Library, the BCSIR has been maintaining library in the BCSIR Laboratories in Chittagong and Rajshahi.
Library Hours: The Central Library is open from 9-00 AM to 5-00 PM on Sundays through Thursdays. It is closed on Fridays, Saturdays and on holidays as announced by the government.
Users: The Central Library mainly serves the scientists and technologists and researchers of the BCSIR.
Library Use by Outsiders: The Library offers services to the scientists, technologists, researchers, teachers and students of the institutes, Universities and organizations.
Library Collection And Resources
- The collection
The library collection consisted of 15,000 volumes books and 25,000 back volumes journals.
- Resources
The book collection generally consists of books, institutional reports, conference Proceedings etc. Which are arranged according to a classification number. So that items on the same or related subjects can be found together.
The reference collection consists mainly of important documents, dictionaries, manuals, hand books, directories, encyclopedias etc and can only be used in the library.
The journal collection consists of current journals arranged alphabetically by title on the display shelves and bound journals arranged alphabetically by title on the shelves in the journal section.
Abstracts and Indexes are shelved separately and arranged yearwise.
The reprints and documents collection consists of reprints, documents, chapter of books, seminar Paper, article etc which are arranged by reprints accession numbers and stored in folding file in file cabinets.
In the Calendar year 2001 the library subscribed 100 titles of current journal on various discipline on science and technology.
Inter Library Loan ( Library Cooperation):
The BCSIR Library has established informal relationship with some scientific and technological libraries in Dhaka to facilitate inter-library loans of books and other library materials. Under this relationship the BCSIR Library can borrow books and other library materials on the demand of the scientists.
Library IT Center:
The library IT center has been established in the year 2001 under a project of the Government of Bangladesh. Under this project entitled " Modernization of BCSIR Library" online information network has been established among the libraries of Dhaka, Chittagong and Rajshahi. At present there are around fifty computers under central library Local Area Network (LAN). Different buildings of the BCSIR campus included in this LAN. The center is providing Internet and other library services. The scientists have been using the computers for literature search and conducting scientific research. A Library software has developed and taken steps to provide different types of information services through this software and computer. The services are acquisition management, technical processing of information resources, creation of central database, literature search service, machine based SDI, online reservation, bar-coded book lending, journal and article indexing services and serial management etc. |
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