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Training on "MARC21" held at icddr,b - 5 & 7 July 2013

BALID Institute of Information Management (BIIM), a sister concern of Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists (BALID) organized two day-long training programme on MARC21 during 5 & 7 July 2013 at icddr,b. Mr. Md. Zahid Hasan Shoeb and Mr. Nur Ahammed were the resource person the programme. At the end of the training programme, certificates were distributed among the participants by Md. Harun-or-Rashid on 5 July 2013 and Professor M. Abdussattar on 7 July 2013 where BALID and BIIM Chairman Dr. Mirza Mohd. Rezaul Islam was also present. A total number of 40 participant from different organizations of the country attended the training through online registration.


Participant List - 5 July 2013
Participant List - 7 July 2013

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Lecture on "Information Literacy and Advocacy: narrowing knowledge gap" held at ULAB Seminar Room - 6 July 2013

BALID Institute of Information Management (BIIM), a sister concern of Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists (BALID) organized a lecture series on Information Literacy and Advocacy: narrowing knowledge gap in collaboration with University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) during 6 July 2013. Professor Jahirul Haque, Pro Vice Chancellor of ULAB inaugurated the lecture session as chief guest where Mr. Mahmud Hassan, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Communication, GoB and Mr. Kazi Ali Reza, Officer-in-Charge, UNIC Dhaka spoke as special guest. Mr. Mirza Mohd. Rezaul Islam, Chairman, BALID & BIIM chair the session. Mr. Kazi Ali Reza. OIC, UNIC Dhaka, Minhaj Uddin Ahmed, Director (Technical), Centre for Information Studies, Bangladesh (CIS,B), Prof. PhD M. Mezbah-ul-Islam, ISLM, DU, M. Moniruzzaman, KMO, UNIC Dhaka were the resource person at the session. Dr. Md. Nazim Uddin, Senior Manager, ICDDR,B Library and Information Service Section moderated the program.

Participants List

Announcement: Urgent notice for the training programme on "MARC21"

This is an announcement for all concerned that the venue and date of the training on MARC21 have been changed due to an unavoidable circumstance. The new venue of the said training is icddr,b and date is 5 July and 7 July 2013.
The training will be in two batches. The first batch will be on 5 July and the second batch on 7 July 2013 at 8-30 am remaining all other program unchanged. The participants will be individually informed their batch no and other details immediately. All concerned are, therefore, kindly requested to duly join the training according to the new schedule

Updated information regarding the "MARC21" Training

BALID Institute of Information Management (BIIM), a sister concern of Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists (BALID) has undertaken a series of training programs on IT throughout the year to cater the needs of our fellow professionals. Three such programs have already been accomplished and the forthcoming training on “MARC21” is going to be launched at E-Resource Access Center at NSU Library on Saturday,29 June 2013 instant.

We have been receiving several requests from many persons to take part in this program but as we have the limited seats of only 25 participants, i.e we are very sorry to accommodate anymore participants during this time. However, we will definitely try to comply with your requests by arranging the same training program on the same issue once again if we get the requisite quorum of participants. Therefore, we would request the interested participants to register their names by filling up the form attached with the BALID website or make contact with us through email or by telephone.

Lecture on “Information Literacy and Advocacy : Narrowing Knowledge Gap”

As a part of regular programme, BALID Institute of Information Management (BIIM), a sister concern of Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists (BALID) is going to organize 2nd Lecture on “Information Literacy and Advocacy: Narrowing Knowledge Gap” in collaboration with University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB).
 
The following resource persons will deliver their lecture on the mentioned topic:
1. Professor Dr. Muhammad Mezbah-ul-Islam
     Department of Information Science and Library Management, University of Dhaka &
     Director-Executive, CIS,B
2. Kazi Ali Reza, Chief, United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), Dhaka
3. M. Moniruzzaman, Knowledge Management Officer, UNIC Dhaka
4. Minhaj Uddin Ahmed, Director-Technical, CIS,B
 
The programme is completely free for the professionals, but registration is a must.
 
The Lecture programme will be held on Saturday 06 July 2013 at 5:00 pm in the Seminar Room (6th Floor) of ULAB, Campus B, House 719/A (Satmasjid Road), Dhanmondi, Dhaka -1209. Interested professionals and others are requested to register for the programme by 02 July 2013. Seats are limited and will be distributed as first come, first serve basis. For details, please visit our Training page.
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