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
 WORKSHOP‘s 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,

 Librarian’s, 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