NSUCL provides ever-expanding access to quality information resources, services and programs. The NSU Central Library supports the research, teaching, and learning needs of the NSU community by providing wide-ranging scholarly resources, both digital and print, facilities, and services to faculty members, researchers, students and staff in the discovery, use, creation, and management of informatio
n. We collaborate with the university to enhance the intellectual, social, cultural, and economic qualities. The library introduced Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for the first time in Bangladesh in December 2012. It is based on a library management system to automate library operations and management. The facilities of ‘Self-Check’ and ‘Book Drop’ machines are also evidence of providing diverse facilities by NSUCL. The NSU Central Library's learning resources are mostly related to all departments’ courses and syllabi that are searchable through the Library Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC), URL: http://opac.northsouth.edu Integrated Library Management System Koha has been using for OPAC and managing circulation, patron management, and other library-related administrative tasks and services. At present, the Library maintains several different sections, namely, arts & social sciences, applied sciences & engineering, biomedical sciences, reference, periodicals, cyber & audio-visuals, newspaper archive, study hall, faculty corner, Chinese corner, IELTS corner, acquisition & processing, and library administration. The newly inaugurated “Bangabandhu and Liberation War Corner” at the 3rd level of the library is right now the major attraction to all those who want to explore the life, work and philosophy of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the histories of our great Liberation War. The Library provides borrowing, reference, readers’ guidance, freshmen orientation, computer, internet and Wi-Fi, reading/study space, information literacy, news clipping, database searching, audio-visual, research carrels, current awareness, remote access, research support services and facilities to its users. Telephone, email, and chat services are open to all students and faculty, regardless of location.
