Library
NSU claims its library consists of six floors with over 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) floor area at the southeast side of the campus. This is a semi automated university library in Bangladesh using its own library management software, which supports web-based online circulation system, full-text e-books and online journal article services. It is claimed that the library can accommodate over 1,200 students in its reading rooms. It is also claimed that on average 2,000 students use the library each day.
As of March 2010, it is claimed that the library holds over 31,796 books, 5,700 bound journals (Asian and local) and magazines, 1,277 CD-ROM databases and books, 103 videos, 159 audio-cassettes, and 62 DVDs. It is claimed to subscribe to 15 local journals, 18 foreign and 12 local magazines, two foreign dailies and most of the leading national dailies published from Dhaka. In addition to this, it is claimed that the library ensures easy access to the Internet for users to browse, download, and print full-text articles from over 10,000 journals from Blackwell, IEEE, Jstor, HINARI, OARE, AGORA, Oxford University Press, Wiley Interscience, Springer online databases etc. using the Vice Chancellor's log in account for a large journal database.
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