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The Library maintains reading rooms on every floor of the library. Over Two hundred and fifty users can sit together in the reading rooms of the IUB Central Library. 1st floor is specially for the reading purpose and students are allowed to enter with their own and library books there. Other unit libraries have their own reading room. The lending procedure is automated with the Barcode Technique. An undergraduate student himself/herself may borrow three general materials for 10 days and may be renewed for further loan periods after producing those at the counter personally. Faculty members can borrow fifteen books for 45 days and may be renewed these at the counter personally. Officials may borrow library materials for 30 days and may avail of the borrowing facilities after having the membership. IUB Library is the first to host online database among the private university libraries in Bangladesh. IUB library has consistency and stability in its all types of in-house as well as user-centric services. Unlike other university libraries IUB Library professionals from junior librarians to head librarian all are technically and professionally sound. IUB Library professionals have designed its online database without hiring any software engineering people which is serving the users to search the databases with print facility, and can be accessed 24x7. The link for the Online Database is in the Library Home Page. In-House Computerized Catalogue A computerized campus-wide information service has been developed for information management. The Library maintains a computerized catalogue using the Mini/Micro CDS/ISIS and the Library makes available a searching procedure for its valid users. The Library has been linked with a web based union catalogue through the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP)- a project of UNDP. This holds three databases of IUB Library, one for books and another for periodical articles of Dhaka Campus and one more for Chittagong Campus. Search bellow for IUB Library Databases. Database for
Books (IUB Library, Dhaka) Database for Articles (IUB Library,
Dhaka) Database for Books (IUB Library,
Chittagong) An on-demand information retrieval service is available for all clients. In addition, the Library maintains the News Clipping covering 40 titles and New Arrivals, which publishes monthly with the list of books received in the previous months. The library also provides Indexing and Current Contents services. Current Contents publishes twice/thrice a month, which includes the copy of the content pages of the periodicals received in the last couple of weeks. Only the faculty members may get photocopies from the library materials if it permitted under the national and international copyright laws, rules and regulations. Today Internet is quickly becoming the communication medium of choice for millions of people. The Internet is a massive resource of information to which anyone can connect and from which anyone can receive required data. To provide faster and up-to-date data the IUB Library provides Internet Searching services to its users with 100.0 Mbps speed. |
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