IUB Library

ara, Dhaka with a collection of 160 volumes donated by a founder trust Dr. A Majeed Khan. As the library expanded, by 1996 it occupied a floor of the Campus 1. In 1998, the library moved from Campus 1 to Campus 5, another rented house. The library was furnished in two floors of Campus 5 initially. Within few years the four storied Campus 5 was come under the use of library. The library finally shifted to the university’s permanent campus at Bashundhara Residential Area in August 2010. As of April 2017, the IUB Library's print collection exceeded 30,000 items which include major collections of books, periodicals, and reprints. To address the recent trends of the library users the IUB Library initiated to add digital resources. It started to explore the electronic version of the then subscribed journals. It registered for Oxford University Press Journals for Developing countries in 2002. From 2003 it got access to JSTOR and then it started subscription to it. Currently the library has subscription to quite a good number of full text electronic databases. The library runs by the qualified staff members, supporting staff and students support. Among the fifteen regular staff members eight of them have master degree in library/information science/management. Over twenty students support the library throughout the week under Campus Employment Programme of the university