BANSDOC houses the National Science Library (BANSDOC Library) that acts as a major information resource centre in the country in the field of Science and ICT. It has the finest collections in Information Science and Information and Communication Technology and a strong reference collection in general S&T aspects. It holds over about 17000 books, about 300 periodical titles and receives over about 90 periodicals both Local and Foreign in the field of S and ICT. A significant number of these foreign periodicals are received in electronic form in CD-ROMs. BANSDOC has set up an Electronic/Digital Library Division with facilities to access information from CD-ROMs.

BANSDOC provides needful professional inservice/apprenticeship training on various topics including the application of information and communication technology in the field of library, information and documentation. To support its ICT services, BANSDOC has set up an ICT based Cyber Service Centre which is well equipped with the computer and online broadband connected networking facilities to ensure all out high quality cyber services to the users.

BANSDOC works closely with similar counterpart institutions in the countries over the world to bring about global information exchange. BANSDOC is associated with the activities of International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID), International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), Commonwealth Library Associations (COMLA), SAARC Documentation Centre (SDC), European Patent Organization (EPO), European Commission (EC), UNESCO, ISESCO etc.

Wide dissemination of S&T information to mitigate the information needs of the S&T community in the country, BANSDOC has set up a dial-up online network connection named as Bangladesh National Scientific and Library Information Network (BANSLINK) initiated in 1998 involving 15 nodes in the country. It is the first online network of its kind in the country and the main objective of the BANSLINK is to pool all the national information resources on the Internet to ensure maximum use and application of the limited resources in right time to the right user. Moreover the second phase envisages the BANSLINK to be on the Internet so that all BANSLINK nodes may be enabled to get direct access the global information resources.

A team of about 53 personnel comprising scientific, technical and administrative staff is handling the programmes and activities of BANSDOC. Over 12 personnel of the total staff are graduates or post-graduates in science, information science and ICT. Many of them have specialization in Library, Documentation Information Science and ICT.

 
 
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