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 --------------------------------- Check out what you're missing if you're not on Yahoo! Messenger -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.