Kazi Fazlur Rahman Library

On January 08, 2023, KFR Library organized an Information Literacy Session on “Effective use of KFR Library Resources in Research and Scholarly Communication” for the students of level 4/1 and 4/2 of the Civil Engineering Dept. of AUST at the VC’s Office Seminar Room. The session was conducted by Dr. Md. Zillur Rahman, Librarian, and Dr. Debasish Sen, Assistant Professor, CE. The session was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Sharmin Reza Chowdhury, Head, Dept. of Civil Engineering while Prof. Dr. Md. Shahid Mamun was present to inspire students. Professor Reza said that this kind of session is very important for the students who are going to prepare their thesis at the level 4/2 or in the final year. Preparation for research and selection of topic and research proposal will have to start from level 4/1 under the guidance of the supervisor, he also added. He also thanked Dr. Md. Zillur Rahman, Librarian, AUST for taking this kind of initiative in AUST history which is going to be a milestone program.

The session was divided into two parts. At the first session, Dr. Md. Zillur Rahman, Librarian, AUST delivered his lecture on KFR Library resources which was further divided into two segments: theoretical and virtual tour to KFR Library website. In the theoretical presentation, Dr. Raman described sources of information, where and how to get in the KFR library. In the virtual tour, he showed location of the resources and how to find them in the KFR library website. He also described the importance of Scopus and how to find SJR and SNIP index, top ranked journals on a single discipline using sources, and how to run document, author and affiliation search on Scopus platform.

Dr. Debasish Sen, Assistant Professor, CE described the process of thesis preparation, and how to use and submit documents in Turnitin plagiarism checker. He also gave some tricks on how to reduce similarity indexes etc.

All the students from level 4/1 and 4/2 of the Dept. of Civil Engineering were present at the session. After completing the presentation part from both of the resource persons, a Q & A session was also conducted to get feedback from the students. The students asked different questions to the resource persons and they answered to quench their inquisitiveness. The session was concluded with a vote of thank from the organizer.