Md. Rifat Mahmud
Designation: Assistant Library Officer
B.A. (Honours) & M.A. in Information Science & Library Management, University of Dhaka
Phone: +880-2-55668200 Ext-6498
Email: rifat.mahmud03@northsouth.edu
Office: Cyber & Audio Visual Center, Library Building.
Responsibilities: Cyber & Audio Visual services, Library Circulation and Information Services, Institutional Repository (DSpace).
Publications:
Publications:
- Mahmud MR (2024), “AI in automating library cataloging and classification”. Library Hi Tech News, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-07-2024-0114
- Mahmud MR, Bin Reza R, Ahmed SZ (2023), “The effects of misinformation on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Bangladesh”. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, Vol. 72 No. 1-2 pp. 82–97, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-05-2021-0080
- Mahmud MR (2024), “AI in Bangladeshi libraries: opportunities and challenges”. Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 41 No. 5 pp. 5–7, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-04-2024-0053
- Sayed, A. , M. Z. Haque, and M. R. Mahmud. 2022. Information Dissemination During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE THEORY AND PRACTICE, 10(4), pp.66-86, https://doi.org/10.1633/JISTaP.2022.10.4.6
- Reza, R.B., Mahmud, Md.R., Mostofa, S.M. and Othman, R. (2022), “Role of Medical Libraries for Implementing Knowledge Management During Covid-19 Pandemic: An Empirical Study”, in Alareeni, B. and Hamdan, A. (Eds.), Financial Technology (FinTech), Entrepreneurship, and Business Development, Vol. 486, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 219–236, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-08087-6_16.
- Mahmud, M.R. and Reza, R.B. (2024), “Anti-Women Misinformation on YouTube”, COMMUSTY Journal of Communication Studies and Society, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 1–8, doi: 10.38043/commusty.v3i1.5093.
- Reza, R.B., Mahmud, Md.R. and Ahmed, S.M.Z. (2025), “Evaluating AI Excellence: A Comparative Analysis of Generative Models in Library and Information Science”, Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 44 No. 2, pp. 136–149, doi: 10.1080/0194262X.2024.2413558.
- Amin SRU, Bin Reza R, Mahmud MR (2026;), “Biblios: building an AI-powered chatbot for library resource discovery – a practitioner case study”. Library Hi Tech News, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-03-2026-0042
- Mahmud MR (2025), “Dissemination of misinformation during the dengue outbreak in Bangladesh”. The Electronic Library, Vol. 43 No. 3 pp. 449–467, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-08-2024-0236
- Corraya, B., Khan, M., Khanam, S. and Mahmud, R. (2025) ‘Promoting Knowledge Management in Academic Libraries in Bangladesh’, International Journal of Knowledge Processing Studies (KPS), 5(3), pp. 56–72. doi: 10.22034/kps.2025.530747.1235.
- Reza, R.B. and Mahmud, M.R. (2024), “Debunking: Assessing the impact of chatbot discussions on common prejudices regarding Palestinians”, Journal of Information Studies & Technology (JIS&T), Vol. 2025 No. 1, p. 6, doi: 10.5339/jist.2025.6.
- Mahmud, M.R., 2024. Performance of Generative AIs in Detecting Dengue-Related Misinformation: ChatGPT and Google Bard. The Indonesian Journal of Communication Studies, 17(1), pp.44-57.
- Corraya, B.H., Khan, M. and Mahmud, M.R. (2024), “Generative AIs in Detecting Mpox Related Misinformation: ChatGPT and Gemini”, The Indonesian Journal of Communication Studies, Vol. 17 No. 2, pp. 103–115.
- Mahmud, M.R. and Reza, R.B., 2020. APPLICATION OF WEB ARCHIVING TECHNOLOGIES IN BNL AND NAB: A PROPOSED MODEL. Eastern Librarian, 25, p.2