Dagon University

Librarian and its Predecessors

Library Staff

Library Collection

Library Services

• • Loan service (Closed Stack System)

  • Periodical service

  • References service

  • Inter-library Loan service

  • e-library service

  • Special service for Visually Impaired Students

  • Human Rights Resource Centre

    INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW (IHRL)

    The Translation of ‘International Human Rights Law’ (IHRL) by Rhona M. Smith (8th edition) of Oxford University Press (OUP) that will provide an excellent introduction to human rights law and is well suited not only for law students, but also for those with no legal background. It is available to: Downloadable here:

    2.A KHWINT A YAY MOBILE    APPLICATION

    The application (App) contains nine core international human rights conventions and optional protocols in both Myanmar and English.  Android Download URL IOS DOWNLOAD URL

    3.The translated Myanmar language ‘Human Rights Education Toolbox’ is the practical and user-friendly guide to support educators with facilitating human rights education. The book is suited for the educators including teachers, facilitators, trainers and students enhancing learner-centred teaching pedagogy. It is available to: D-M HRE Toolbox_Myanmar

    4.The translated Myanmar language book ‘Human Rights Politics and Practice’ provides readers with a broad introduction to human rights theory and practice in a constantly evolving field of international politics. The book covers the diverse human rights issues and is worth to read for teachers, students and people interested in human rights. It is available to:  D-M MEG book_Myanmar

    5.The core international human rights conventions and optional protocols in bilingual version is now available to download here:

Special service for Visually Impaired Students

• Provide services for visually impaired students from Dagon University
• Collaboration with the Myanmar National Association of the Blind (MNAB) which supports reading and writing facilities for the blind and transforming the braille book
• Recording and editing audio files for audio book
• DTP process for transcribing braille letter
• Providing audio books and braille books for their course respectively
• Assist for finding online e-Resources and references in the library

Opening Hours

Membership

Annually, enrolled students, office staff and faculty members have registered at the Library. It needs present his/ her identity card, giving 2 passport photos to the library.

Outsider users need Government Department or recommendation letter of a professor from Dagon University.

* Researchers and outsiders can use in Library.

E Catalogue

• – eCatalogue with ELIB System Link Here

eResources

• • – e-Tekkatho Digital Library

(online: www.etekkatho.org; offline: 172.16.0.11)

• – EBSCO
• – ProQuest Databases
  • – OECD iLibrary

Forty computers are installed in the e-Library section for user who can access e-Resources databases via eTekkatho (both offline and online), EBSCO, and ProQuest. Ills

eTekkatho Digital Library was donated by Manchester University in November 2013 and the offline is updated by every six-months. It offers over 1700 full text resources. And special collection resources which include Wikipedia in English and Myanmar Languages, Massachusetts Institution of Technology’s Open Courseware and Video file.

ProQuest Databases and resources are donated by iGroup-group of companies and providing ProQuest Central and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. More than 1.5 million full-text graduate works and 2.7 million A & I records including works of Nobel Laureates. iGroup also offers resources of OECD iLibrary that includes 10,100 eBook Titles, 43,850 Chapters, 104,400 Tables and Graphs, 4,500 Articles, 4,380 Multilingual Summaries, 4,630 Workings Papers and 5 Billion Data Points across 42 Databases.

The eLibrary MynamarProject is funded by the Open Society Foundations Higher Education Support Program and implemented by EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) and launched at Dagon University Library in December 2014. More than 35 e-resources (including 10,000 + full-text scholarly journals, 130,000 + full-text academic e-books, a vast range of other materials) are available on EDS.

Multidisciplinary e-resources

eLibrary Training

eLibrary Orientation Sessions are provided at eLibrary for students on every Wednesday and Friday in every semesters. Trainings for faculty are also provided occasionally.

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Ask Librarian

Daw Thaung Biak Par
Librarian
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If you have any question about the library, Please contact to [email protected].