Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman, speaks at the formal launching of BB’s online library and e-news clippings at the Bank’s conference room on Sunday.

Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr Atiur Rahman on Sunday stressed the need to digitise the country’s banking and financial sector as the first step towards building the digital Bangladesh.

He said the central bank has already undertaken all out efforts to digitise the activities of Bangladesh Bank as well as the overall banking sector of the country.

The BB governor was addressing a programme marking the formal launching of BB’s online library and e-news clippings at its conference room.

Atiur said as part of the massive digitisation endeavor the central bank has started modernising its library maintaining international standard.

He said the central bank has enhanced its supervisory role sufficiently for strengthening the institutional good governance of the banks side by side its risk reduction; building a firm footing for risk management and also enhancing the capability of the central bank.

He hoped that central bank will be the most digitised institution in Bangladesh very shortly.

Deputy Governor Nazneen Sultana, Executive Director M Ahsanullah, general manager of IT-OCD Qazi Nasir Ahmed, Assistant Director Shasanka Kumar Singha also spoke on the occasion.

Nazneen Sultana said skilled manpower and updated information both are similarly important for ensuring expected and timely development of any organisation.

Archiving various news on national and international banking, finance and socio-economic conditions, providing news clipping service to the end users, single point access of all the archived news, alert readers about the news clippings according to reader’s interest list are the vital objectives of developing the e-library.

The central bank is working to introduce two modern information service centers named “Institutional Repository (Archive)” and “Audio Visual, Language and Cyber Section” immediately.

Data on BB, banking sector and socio-economic situation of the country will be available on both the sites.

central bank officials will be able to log-in to both the sites by using network ID and password in the Bangladesh Bank’s website.

IT operations and communication department of BB worked both to develop the online library and e-news clipping management software.

Presently there are 33682 books, 7210 e-books, 520 CD-ROM, 25,000 e-journals, 655 journals articles, 13 magazines, 21333 journals in the archives, 29 daily news papers, 3 foreign daily news papers, 648 e-annual report, have been preserved in the Bangladesh Bank Library.

The Daily Sun/ Bangladesh/ 14th May 2012