March 28th, 2011
Library history
Early 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 of Florence Boot, initially in the small number of shops which had a stationery department.
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March 28th, 2011
Historical figures, Library history
James 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 the Report state that the Loganian is the first building in the country used exclusively as a library.
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February 23rd, 2011
Library history
Distance 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 provide a totally online degree.
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September 3rd, 2010
Articles, Library history
Recently, I have read in some of the major library journals about how concerned library professionals are because there aren
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March 31st, 2010
Library history, Research
According 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 history of libraries and librarianship, their connection to society, intellectual freedom, and the future of information dissemination.
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March 17th, 2010
Articles, Library history
December 9th, 2009
Articles, Featured, Information Network, Information society, Knowledge management, Library history, Research
INTRODUCTION
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 can not read” reported that 16 million Europeans are illiterates.
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December 6th, 2009
Articles, Bibliometrics, Documentation, Featured, Information systems, Library history
1. 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 8 P.M
Thursday : 9 A.M to 2 P.M
Friday and other Government holidays closed.
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July 27th, 2009
Library history
Introduction
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 history of library development in Indian sub-continent.
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