Recently, I have read in some of the major library journals about how concerned library professionals are because there aren’t enough young people joining the profession. Some say it’s because it can be difficult to go to library school, either for financial reasons or geographic reasons. There aren’t that many graduate [...]
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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 [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Articles, Library history
Henry Wessells reviewed this book for The Washington Post.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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