Comitted to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 4 Num 66 Fri. August 01, 2003  
   
Letters to Editor


DU library and some facts


Thanks to Mr. Hasan Zahid Tusher for his reporting on the negligence of microfilms in DU central library and also thanks to Mr. Azizul Russel for his letter on that report (July 25). Mr. Russel also mentioned some problems of DU central library. Here I would like to add some more on this topic.

DU authority introduce new subjects or add new courses one after another but don't increase library facilities. Twenty to thirty years old (and more) books are the sole source of these new subjects/ courses. As a student of Economics, I can say about the Economics Department where recently two new courses are included -- Macro and CGE Modeling in BBS fourth year and Advanced Topics in Econometrics in MSS. But reference books are not at all available in the library. Our teachers' personal collection is the main source for our study. However, some relevant books are available but the important pages are often missing.

Many readers go to the newspaper and journal section but its condition is very crucial -- most of the newspapers and journals are not preserved properly.

Regrettablly In the era of Information Technology (IT), the DU library has only two Internet computers, with internet facilities for fourteen, for twenty thousands students of arts and commerce faculty. It seems to me that the authority is fully careless about providing IT facilities for the welfare of general students.