Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies Library (Dhaka, Bangladesh)

The BIDS Library, the largest social sciences library in Bangladesh, has a collection of over 1,30,000 books, documents, journals and microfiches. It provides a wide range of services to the user community, including current awareness, reproduction, inter-library lending and reading facilities. Annually, about 10,000 users avail of the library facilities. Because of its rich collections, the library attracts students, teachers and researchers from different parts of Bangladesh. The library produces an information dissemination bulletin for Bangla books. It also participates in information networks to facilitate resource-sharing, and maintains inter-library loan relationships with selected libraries in Dhaka city.