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About

Dagon University Library launched as soon as the university was established in 1993. It was then situated on 1st floor of building No. 31. At that time there were 1630 volumes of books. In 1999, the total collection of the volumes reached to 3554.

Electronic Library (ELIB) software has been used to record the library collections since 2000.

eCatalogues are provided at the website. The users can search e-catalogue by author, title, subject, keyword search and advanced search through our library automation system (ELIB Software).

On April 2015, the old library was moved to the new building in which Circulation Section, Reference Section I (Theses and Project paper), Reference Section and Periodical Section, Processing Section and Computer Section are accommodated. ills

At present, the library has over three hundred thousand collections. Most of them are academic books correspond to the teaching programs related to the university. In addition, fiction and non-fiction; theses, project papers and old questions of Dagon University.
Motto – Helping those who seek knowledge
Vision – To support upgrading university education with effective library services
Mission – To increase the skills capacity of librarians with closed links of faculty

Librarian and its Predecessors

Daw Thaung Biak Par	2014-
Daw Soe Soe Aung	1999-2014
Daw Myint Myint	1998-1999
U Thein Shwe	1997-1998
Daw Myint Myint	1996-1997
Daw Khin Mar Win	1993-1996

Library Staff

Sr.	Designation	No.
1	Chief Librarian	1
2	Assistant Librarian	1
3	Library Assistant Grade (2)	2
4	Library Assistant Grade (3)	3
5	Library Assistant Grade (4)	2
	Total	9

Library Services

- Loan service (Closed Stack System)
- Periodical service
- References service
- Inter-library Loan service
- e-library service
- Special service for Visually Impaired Students

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

	Room	Hours
1st Floor	Circulation	10:00 to 16:00
2nd Floor	Reference and Periodical	10:00 to 16:00
2nd Floor	e-Library	10:00 to 16:00
Ground Floor	Resource Room for Visually Impaired Students	10:00 to 16:00

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.

User Categories	Loan Cards	Loan Periods
Students	1 Card	1 Week
Teaching Staff	3 Cards	1 Month
Office Staff	1 Card	1 Week

* Researchers and outsiders can use in Library.

E Catalogue

– eCatalogue with ELIB System

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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.

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.

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.

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].

Dagon University

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