Boots Booklovers LibraryEarly days The first circulating libraries in the UK were formed during the mid-eighteenth century and allowed books to be borrowed for a specified loan period after payment of a subscription. Several libraries were attached to shops, notably W. H. Smith and Harrods. The Boots Book Lending service was established in 1898 at the instigation [...] The Loganian Library of PhiladelphiaJames Logan was apparently an already established figure when Ben Franklin and his young chums started in the library business. Logan had a large private library which he had been collecting for about fifty years. He decided to make this into a “public” library and erected the building pictured below in 1745. The editors of [...] A Masters in Library Science: From a DistanceDistance learning continues to evolve. Within the library and information studies community, many combination’s of alternatives to the traditional on-campus program have developed. Some schools have distributed their program to other campuses with live face-to-face instruction. Some schools are providing instruction via asynchronous learning networks- each student taking coursework at their own pace – to [...] Discovering Librarianship.Recently, I have read in some of the major library journals about how concerned library professionals are because there aren Library Science & Librarians: Current & Historical ContextsAccording to a recent study of Library Science, a common notion of the librarians about their own profession is revealed; which indicates lower self-esteem towards their profession. Most of the librarians believe that, they are not respected as a professional group. It also exposed the curriculum designed to educate new library science students on the [...] Book & Book-lovers : A Breif RetrospectiveHenry Wessells reviewed this book for The Washington Post. ROLE OF LIBRARIES IN ERADICATING ILLITERACY IN BANGLADESH, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SITUATION IN THE SAARC COUNTRIESINTRODUCTION Illiteracy is a universal problem, and even Europe and America arc not free from this scourge. Illiteracy is not a problem peculiar to South Asia. It is estimated that in 1995 there were 885.1 millions of illiterate people in the world.1 In the 25th September 1989 issue of Newsweek, an article titled “When Europeans [...] THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF BANGLADESH – AT A GLANCE1. Some useful Information a) Mailing address: Directorate of Archives and Libraries The National Library of Bangladesh 32,Justice S.M.Murshed Sarani Agargaon, Sher-e-BangIa Nagar Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh. Phone: 9129992,9112733.913S053 Tele- Fax: 880-2-9118704 e-mail : nab@accesstel.net b) Self-Identity at the main entrance of Library in writing is compulsory, c) Library Timings:- Saturday to Wednesday : 9 A.M to [...] Development of Libraries in Bangladesh- A Study of the Historical RouteIntroduction The communication of ideas is one of the most significant achievements in the history of cultural development of the human race. The library, however, is only one of many means of human communication (Johnson,1973: 1-6) and is considered an important centre for disseminating knowledge. The library development in Bangladesh is closely related with the [...] |
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