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● To supply web based research information
● To cooperate research and activities among the scientists and professionals and
excellence of patronization
● To provide digital library service
● To exchange information at national and international level
● To arrange internship for library and information management
● To arrange and attend of book exhibition or book fair at national level
● To drive scientific and technological research and development to provide
consultancy service in the same field of interest.
● To accomplish a deed of contract with any other foreign organization, prior
permission of the Govt. to achieve the aims of BANSDOC.
● To execute other activities assigned by the Govt.

Resources and Services

(a) Document Procurement and Delivery Service

Access to information holds a very important
key to socio-economic development of a country.
This information explosion over the world during
last few years has been amazing. Millions of
journal/periodical articles are being published
every year in various fields of science and
technology. Access to these types of information
in right time is of paramount importance to the
progress of individual institutions and societies as
well. Libraries being the storehouses of human
knowledge and information cater to the
requirements of different branches of knowledge.
That’s why library, information and
documentation centres disseminate information
and knowledge in different forms of services.

The cost of information resources has been rising tremendously with the increase of volume
of information calling for heavy investment in the libraries, information and documentation
centres of the country. Consequently the buying capacity of the information providing institutions
have been lowering resulting in limited access to information resources. So there is an increased
demand for information, which are not available in one’s own institution.

BANSDOC has been providing document copy delivery service with procuring those from
similar local and foreign sources. Firstly, it does so from its own library collection.

If the user’s requested document is not available in the BANSDOC Library then it procures
from some international information sources. BANSDOC has co-operation programmes of
activities with a number of renowned international libraries, information and documentation
centres over the world and procures documents from them like: National Library of Australia
(NLA), The British Library and Document Supply Centre (BLDSC), National Institute of Science
Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR) and European Patent Office (EPO) on
payment basis. The payment to the foreign document supplier is made in the form of UNESCO
Dollar Coupons.

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