Rehana Islam

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Rehana Islam

• Dreams vs Reality
• ? Foundations Of Information Technology
• ? LIBR-500
• rehanai_at_interchange.ubc.ca

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Bangladesh. Where I am from

• Born in Dhaka, the beautiful capital city.
• Between Three I am the Second child of my
  parents.
• Ive spent the majority of my life in Dhaka.

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Bangladesh.

• Capital Dhaka
• Government Parliamentary Republic
• Independence at 1971
• Language Bengali
• Climate Tropical monsoon
• Sports Football, Kabaddi, Cricket

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Our National Animal, Flower, Bird and Longest
Sea Beach of the World
Shapla (Water Lily)
Royal Bengal Tiger
Cox's Bazar
Doyal
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Dhakathe city is known as

• The capital city
• Mosque
• Muslin (fabric)
• Rickshaw (non-motorized)

and for the Culture
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Education

• Completed High School from Dhaka in 1988.
• Bachelor of Arts,University of Dhaka, 1990.
• Masters of Library and Information Science,
  University of Dhaka in 1992.
• though I wanted to be a doctor.and the reality
  is

YAHOO!
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Working The real world
University of Rajshahi

• ? Joined as a Lecturer at 1996, School of
• Library Information Science, University
• of Rajshahi
• ? Promoted as a Assistant Professor in
• 1999 and worked there till 2004
• Again I saw a dream..

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Im friendlyCooking is my passionI like
humor, movie or book- anythingIm introverted
in new place(too bad!)
Something you might want to know....
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Family
Maz

• Maz Rafia my kids,
• Maz, likes to play Basketball and Guitar.
• Rafia, she is a singer. She plays Volleyball.

Rafia
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My Hobby.

• I like watching movies
• Reading novels (text book,no!)
• Listening music
• Surfing in Internet
• To make friends

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Traveling..

• Traveling is the enjoyable
• part of my life, at anywhere
• at anytime..
• The places I like most

• Disneyland, the dream place
• Lake Tahoe, Nevada
• Ifel Tower
• Tajmohol in India, symbol of love
• Berlin, the historical city I ever seen

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Vancouverthe dream city

• I moved in Vancouver as a Immigrant in May, 2004
• Was looking for professional job but.
• I realized, I might need a ALA
  accredited degree,
• again dream..

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SLAISreality of my life

• When I was accepted into SLAIS, I knew I find
  the path to a get good career.
• Now I spend time for School, Book and Library.

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Career Goals

• To be a Librarian in a Academic setting
  Elementary, Secondary or University
• again dream and dream.

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Acknowledgement

• Photographes (Slides 2, 3 5) Mohiuddin Ahmed
  Rubana Ahmed
• http//office.microsoft.com/
• http//www.asitravelling.net
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh

Thanks for wathching