East Yangon University Library
Brief History
East Yangon University was established in April 2000. The University
Library was opened at
the same time. Started to run with the books and periodicals collected at the old
College (Kyimyindyne and Botahtaung Colleges).
Firstly, One teaching room was used as a Library of University of East Yangon move in
the new library building in Nov, 2015.
Objective
To provide up-to-date information and resources of high quality
standard to library
users.
To meet the relevant necessary information to teachers and students with regard to
knowledge and skills through on user- friendly services.
Librarians
- Daw Myint Myint (2000 – 2015)
- Daw Khin Aye Myint (2015 – 2018)
- Daw Nu Nu Aung (2018 - present)
Collections
Collection of Myanmar encyclopedia, Rare books on Myanmar, Historical
books, English Myanmar
reference books and Biography.
At present the collections of East Yangon University Library are as follow:
Organogram of East Yangon University Library
| Role | Quantity |
| Librarian | 1 |
| Assistant Librarian | 2 |
| Library Assistant Grade - 2 | 3 |
| Library Assistant Grade - 3 | 7 |
| Other | 1 | Total | 14 |
Composition of the Library
The new library is three-storied building.
| Second floor | - | Rare and Reference services Conference room Librarian Office room |
| First floor | - | e-library room, Human Rights Resource and periodical section |
| Ground floor | - | Loan counter and open shelf |
Services
| Provide services to regular students and faculty members to use library conveniently. | |
| Inter- library loan | |
| Support to the library users to access updated books and references from collected books by finding title, author, and subject from catalogue. | |
| Teachers can borrow 3 books and students can borrow 2 books at the same time. |
Activities at the University Library
| Entering e–lib catalogue cards in English & Myanmar | |
| Scanning the rare books | |
| e–library project was started with the support of Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) in April, 2015. | |
| Searching e-books at EBSCO Host | |
| Providing e- library related training by EBSCO local Coordinator to faculty members and master students |