Library, Documentation and Information Science Division of the Indian Statistical Institute and NASSDOC, ICSSR, New Delhi are jointly organizing a National Workshop on Developing Subject Portal for Resource Harvesting in Social and Allied Sciences. [http://www.isical.ac.in/~library/workshop] Date: 27 to 28 February 2007 Scope: The focus of the Workshop will be to introduce the participants to sources of information on social sciences and help them to discover the Internet based resources including numerical data sources. Participants will be introduced to how to harvest OAI complaint information resources in the areas of social sciences. Hands-on training on how to install and operate open source harvesting software and development of subject gateways using the same will also be provided Workshop Director Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi Chief Librarian Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata Target Participants The Workshop will be beneficial to library and information science professionals, research scholars, and other interested persons. The Workshop is confined to twenty participants only and will be filled basically on first come first served basis. Applications/nominations should reach the Workshop Office on or before 20 February 2007. Registration Last Date: 20 February 2007 Fee: Nil Online: http://www.isical.ac.in/~library/workshop/registration.html Date & Venue: 27-28 February 2007 Auditorium-I Kolmogorov Bhavan Indian Statistical Institute 203 BT Road Kolkata 700 108 Arup Raychaudhury Workshop Coordinator & Deputy Librarian _____________________________________________________________ Indian Statistical Institute |Phone: 91-33-2575 2106/2100/2118 203 B.T. Road | Kolkata 700 108 |Fax : 91-33-2578 1412 INDIA | _____________________________________________________________ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.