(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. Thats
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.
BANSDOC delivers research papers/articles
to its users mainly by procurement
through placing orders to its
counterpart different international
libraries, information and documentation
centres.
The
Document Delivery Services offered
by BANSDOC during the year 2009-10
is given below in tabular form:
Sl. No. |
Organizations Placing Requests |
Requests
Received from Users
2009-10 |
Documents Delivery to Users
2009-10 |
1. |
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) |
213 |
196 |
2. |
Medical Colleges and Institutes |
217 |
139 |
3. |
Rajshahi University |
74 |
61 |
4. |
Bangladesh Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research (BCSIR) |
18 |
10 |
5. |
Bangladesh Agricultural University
(BAU) |
48 |
22 |
6. |
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
(BUET) |
7 |
6 |
7. |
Other Research Institutes |
126 |
103 |
|
Total |
703 |
537 |
During
the period 2009-10, BANSDOC has
received 703 requests of foreign
documents and delivered 537 documents.
Document Delivery Services
of BANSDOC during last five years:
Description |
2005-2006 |
2006-2007 |
2007-2008 |
2008-2009 |
2009-10 |
Request Received |
3,167 |
2,746 |
1,627 |
1,018 |
703 |
Document Delivery |
2,620 |
1,722 |
988 |
487 |
537 |
No. of Pages |
28,653 |
14,044 |
11,410 |
4,329 |
4,201 |
BABSDOC has procured and disseminated 4,201 pages
of photocopies of foreign journal
articles as per demand of 169 scientists /researchers during
the period 2009-10.
Now demand of foreign document
is receiving through email ( docu@bansdoc.gov.bd & bansdoc@gmail.com)
. Any researcher can send his
demand through email without coming
in BANSDOC personally.
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