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BALID AGM and Election of Executive Council for 2016-2017Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Election/Formation of the Executive Council of BALID for 2016-2017 will be held on 01 May 2016 at 10 am. BALID members are kindly requested to participate in the AGM 2016 and your active cooperation is sought to constitute the Executive Council of BALID for 2016-2017.
Venue: Conference Room, Ahsania Mission, House-19, Road-12 (new), (near Bangabondhu Museum, Road-32), Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1209.
Agenda:
i) Presentation of Annual Report by Secretary General/BALID. Discussion and Approval
ii) Presentation of Financial & Audit Report of 2014-2015 & Announcement of Budget of 2016-2017 by Finance Secretary. Discussion and Approval
iii) Constitution Revision and Amendment
iv) Miscellaneous
Registration:
BALID members joining the AGM need to be registered prior to attending the AGM. Registration may be done filling the form provided in BALID website (https://www.balid.org) or sending the filled up form at balidbd[at]gmail.com.
Registration will be closed on 29 April 2016.
Registration fee:
An amount Tk. 210 (two hundred and ten) is fixed as registration fee.
You are requested to confirm your registration by transmitting the Registration fee either to the
i) bkash Account No. 01732966482 or
ii) current A/C no. 001009547of Sonali Bank (Account Title: Bangladesh Gronthagarik O Tothayonbid Samity) or iii) A/C no.02333001221 of Bank Asia (Account Title: BALID).
Contact Persons & Points for Registration:
1) Mr. Shamsuddin Ahmed, Director,BIIM
2) Mr. Humayun Kabir, IUB
3) Mr. Sasasnk Kumar Singha, Bangladesh Bank
4) Mr. AKM Mofizur Rahman, CDL
5) Mr. Alom Hossain, Uttara
6) Mr. Shafiur Rahman, icddr,b
updated on: 02 April 2016
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Training on Plagiarism and Reference Management Software Zotero held at NSU Library - 19 December 2015A day long Training on Plagiarism and Reference Management Software Zotero was held at E-resources Access Centre, North South University (NSU) Library, Bashundhara, Dhaka. on Saturday, December 19, 2015.
North South University in collaboration with Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists (BALID) was organized this training. Total 40 teachers, researchers and librarians of various government, autonomous and private institutions in the country were participated in this training program.
Dr. Md. Mostafizur Rahman, University Librarian of North South University taught plagiarism checking software Turnitin and Minhajuddin Ahmed discussed on plagiarism while Md. Mukhlesur Rahman of Independence University, A K M Nurul Alam, Assistant Director of Bangladesh Bank and Kazi Farhad Noman of Southeast University taught Zotero and Mendely reference software.
The certificate award ceremony of the training was held at Faculty Lounge of NSU at 6:00pm where Dr. Gour Gobinda Goswami Vice Chancellor (In-charge), NSU was the Chief Guest and Dr. Vasanthi Rajendran, Director, CIRDAP was the Special Guest. Dr. Arshad M Chowdhury, Chairman, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was the Guest of Honor. Dr. Mirza Mohd. Rezaul Islam, Chairman, BALID was the chair of the certificate award ceremony.
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Day long national seminar on ‘Cross-Talk of Digital Resources Management: step towards digital Bangladesh’ held at CICC - 22 August 2015
A Day long national seminar on “Cross-Talk of Digital Resources Management: step towards digital Bangladesh” organized by Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists (BALID) was held at CIRDAP International Conference Center (CICC), Chameli House, 17 Topkhana Road, Dhaka-1000 on Saturday, 22 August 2015 in collaboration with Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP).
H.E Mr. Imran Ahmad, M.P., Honorable Chairman, Standing Committee on the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication and Information Technology, Bangladesh Parliament graced the Inaugural Ceremony of this day-long seminar as the Chief Guest while H.E Ms Akhtar Jahan, M.P., Member, Standing Committee on the Ministry of Finance was the Special Guest of the event. Among others Mr. Sasanka Kumar Singha, Secretary General, BALID deliver the welcome address and Dr. Md. Nazim Uddin, Convener of the Seminar offered the vote of thanks Dr. Mirza Mohd. Rezaul Islam, Chairman, BALID and BIIM chaired the inaugural ceremony.
Two keynote papers namely ‘Cross-talk on digital resource management’ by Dr. Mostafizur Rahman, AIM Jakaria Rahman and Muhammad Hossam Haider Chowdhury and Model Community Library O Milon kendro by Hazera Rahman were presented in the inaugural session. Eight papers on the digital resource management of the eight leadings libraries were presented in the technical sessions. Papers on ‘Open source software in libraries’ was also presented.
The Chairpersons of the technical sessions were Professor Dr. M. Kaykobad, Dept. of CSE, BUET, Mr. Ashish Kumar Sarker, DG, (Additional Secretary) Dept. of Public Library, Prof. Dr. Md. Nasir Uddin, Dept. of ISLM, National University and Mr. Minhaj Uddin Ahmed, Director, CIS,B. A Plenary/Recommendation session was held at the end of the technical sessions chaired by Dr. Mirza Mohd. Rezaul Islam and Mr. Shyama Prasad Bepari, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Education and Prof. Dr. Abdus Sattar, Controller of Examinations, UITS were the discussants of this session. A three member team of rapporteurs coordinated by Mr. Md. Moniruzzaman worked for reporting on the seminar and preparing recommendation.
Around 180 participants in the field of Information Science and Library Management from 110 renowned organizations and universities took part in this seminar. The main purpose of this seminar was to encounter the challenge of digital resource management in Bangladesh and to enable the participants to become aware of existing practice of digital resource management system.
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Training on Library Automation and Digitization Software 'SLiMS' and 'RFID' held at NSU during 24-26 April 2015
A Three Day-long Training program on Senayan Library Management System (SLiMS) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) organized by BALID Institute of Information Management (BIIM), Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists (BALID) in collaboration with North South University (NSU) Library during 24-26 April 2015 was successfully accomplished.
A Certificate Award Ceremony of the training programme was held in the evening on the concluding day (Sunday 26 April 2015) at the Faculty Conference Hall of North South University.
H.E. Mr. Rashed Khan Menon, MP, Honorable Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism was the Chief Guest and distributed the certificates among the participants.
Ms Akhtar Jahan, M.P. and Honorable Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Benajir Ahmed, Chairman, Board of Trustees, NSU, and Professor Amin U. Sarkar, Vice Chancellor, NSU were present as the special guests while Professor Gour Gobinda Goswami, Treasurer, NSU was the Guest of Honor at the event.
Dr. Mirza Mohd. Rezaul Islam, Chairman, BALID and BIIM presided over the ceremony.
Mr. Shamsuddin Ahmed, Director, BALID Institute of Information Management (BIIM) gave a welcome speech and Dr. Mostafizur Rahman, University Librarian, NSU, gave the vote of thanks on this occasion.
The participants took hands on experience on installation, implementation and use of the library automation system SLiMS. They were introduced with the server system and necessary utility software too. A practical demonstration on total RFID system, tagging, circulation and security check was also shown to them.
Honorable Minister in his speech stressed on the digitization of the libraries and the necessity of library professionals to be equipped with the modern IT system to reach the goal of the present Government to develop the country as the “Digital Bangladesh”.
A total of twenty seven library and IT professionals from various renowned organizations and universities took part in this training program on SLiMS and RFID. Dr. Mostafizur Rahman , University Librarian, NSU, A.K.M. Nurul Alam (Apu), Assistant Director, Bangladesh Bank, Kazi Farhad Noman, Assistant Librarian, Southeast University and Fatema-tuz-Johora, Officer-Library, ULAB were the resource persons in the training programme.
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Inauguration of BALID Membership Database - 24 January 2015
BALID has launched its full-fledged membership database on 24 January 2015. BALID is the pioneer in launching membership database in Bangladesh for library professionals. A four-member database team consists of BALID members, namely Mr. A. K. M. Nurul Alam (Apu), Mr. Ahasan Habib, Ms. Momena Khatun and Mr. Jakaria Rahman took the entire journey and completed the database successfully. During the inauguration ceremony, Mr. Ahasan Habib informed about the entire journey of the database team. He also described the challenges the team faced and how they handled those together. Mr. A. K. M. Nurul Alam (Apu) showed the database structure, demonstrated the process of searching and data updating process. In addition, he mentioned about the different ways of communication to reach each member and request for updated information.
After almost two years efforts, considering all the relevant suggestions of the BALID members, following guidelines and taking approval from the BALID Executive Council in different stages of the database development, the database is finally launched. The Chief Guest Rear Admiral (Retd.) Md. Khurshed Alam, BN Secretary (MAU) and BALID & BIIM Chairman Dr. Mirza Mohammad Rezaul Islam inaugurated the BALID membership database. BALID membership database (http://member.balid.org) is linked in the BALID website.
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