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Muhammad Siddiq Khan (21 March 1910 – 13 August 1978), known as M S Khan, was the librarian of the Central Library of the University of Dhaka and the founder of the university's Department of Library Science (now ''Information Science and Library Management'').〔(http://www.balid.org/mskl.html#note01 )〕〔(Library Association of Bangladesh )〕 In March 2004, the Bangladesh government posthumously awarded him the Independence Day Award, the country's highest civil honor. == Early life and education == Khan was born to a Pashtun family from Tangail, Bangladesh. He was born in Rangoon, where his father worked, on 21 March 1910. His father died when he was still very young. His mother, Bolonnessa Begum, got herself in a long-drawn-out litigation with his uncle on proprietary rights to his vast wealth and establishments. Khan spent his childhood in Rangoon and went to school there. He took the Matriculation Examination in 1925 and stood fifth in Burma with distinctions in four subjects.〔 He passed his Intermediate Examination in Arts in 1927 and stood first in Rangoon University with distinction in English. In 1929 he received the B.A. honors degree in History from the university and stood first in the second class. In 1932 he got his B.L. degree. He was placed in the first class in the first-part examinations and in the second class in the second-part examinations. In 1936 he got his M.A. degree in History from the university and received the ''Yakub Abdul Ghani Gold Medal''. For this performance he also received the Jardin Prize. Jenkins sent him abroad to get higher training in Library Science in 1954. Khan arrived in London on 30 September 1954. He started regular course work as decided by Professor Irwin. After due completion of course work, Khan spent one academic year working intensively in selected university and other academic libraries in Great Britain. Irwin arranged a training program with several libraries at the University of London, as well as the libraries of the University of Edinburgh and University of Birmingham. Khan successfully completed his training. After completing a two-year course on the theory and practice of university librarianship in the London School of Librarianship and Archives, under the supervision of Irwin, during 1954–55 and 1955–56, Khan returned to his ancestral place. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Muhammad Siddiq Khan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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