[LIS-Forum] DSpace workshop at Mysore University- A Report
raja kumar
raja13_kumar at yahoo.co.in
Tue Apr 17 19:23:00 IST 2007
Dspace workshop at Mysore university A Report
All is well that ends well was the dictum of the Friday Talk
MULISSA workshop on Dspace, on 13th April, 2007 at the Department
of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore, INDIA.
The WORKSHOPs title was Dspace for Global Access to Science Information
all the FOSS about Building Institutional Repositories
The workshop contents were conceptualized and facilitated
by Dr Khaiser Nikam,Reader Department of Library and Information Science,
who is into building Institutional Repository of the science communications of
University of Mysore using Dspace.At sharp 10.00AM Dr Khaiser along with Dr M.Krishnamurthy,
Librarians, Bangalore placed the workshop in context. Totally there were 80 participants,
including a few library trainees and current students of Library and Information Science pursuing
MLISc program. All the faculty members of the department joined hands in making this unique event
a grand success. Research scholarly from Yaman and Iran also took part in the workshop.
Dr.M. Krishnamurthy,Librarian,resource Person spoke on the OAI movement in the contemporary
Information based society emphasizing the need for free access for science information through
tools like FOSS more so with Dspace. After a couple of theory classes, Dr. Krishnamurthy, Librarian,
Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre took practical sessions, giving a live demo of how to
down load Dspace and work on it to the young and bubbling audience whose average age is some thing like
23- 24 years .All the participants interacted very well to clarify some of the doubts they had in their minds.
End of the day Dr Khaiser thanked the participants and the resource person. Prof VG Talawar gave away the
participants the certificates of appreciation Ms sajana reviewed the days proceedings of the workshop.
Excerpts of the students(prepared by Ms .C Sajana) review are as follows:
The workshop held on 13/04/07 on Dspace was very informative .
It was an awesome experience to listen to such knowledge driven
sessions on Dspace. Both theoretical and practical sessions gave a clear
picture outlining different layers of OAI and Dspace, of course which was
the main course of the sumptuous talk .We were able to gain practical
knowledge of the all the aspects of Dspace .Dr.Krishnamurthy explain
all the processes of installing Dspace in a simple and understandable manner .
Photo Gallery of Dspace workshop
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/album?c=dvklibrary&aid=576460762397874567&pid=&wtok=QKgsjREVNw7RMisItMXpHQ--&ts=1176535605&.src=ph
Rajakumar,
Library
Oxford College
Bangalore
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