Dear Friends, SALIS Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS Chennai Chapter) & The Central Library of B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, Chennai organizing a two-day workshop on Digital Library Initiatives using GSDL & DSpace Date: 16-17, March 2007 Venue: B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, Chennai Objectives The objective of the workshop is to provide X An Overview of the Metadata Standards X Overview of the Open Archives Initiatives X A first hand knowledge of the GSDL and DSpace X Training in building digital library collection X Training to build Institutional Repositories/Archives Coverage X Digital Library X Digitization and OCR X Metadata Standards X Dublin Core X Overview of Open Access Archives and OAI-PMH X Institutional Repositories/Archives Methodology X Lectures X Presentation X Demonstration X Practical training This workshop will be conducted by the experts in the field. Eligibility Practicing Librarians, information professionals. Registration fee: For SALIS members : Rs.350 Non members : Rs.400 Students / Research scholars : Rs.300 The registration fee includes workshop kit, working lunch and tea for two days. No. of Participants Limited to 50 delegates on first come first serve basis. Last Date 30th Sep 2006 DD in favour of ¡¥ Principal, of B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College¡¦ payable at Chennai Registration Form Name Designation Organisation Address for Communication Tel: Off: Res: Cell: Are you a member of SALIS : Fee Particulars: Information about the candidate as given above should be sent along with the DD to: Mr. PANNEERSELVAM Librarian Crescent Engineering College GST Road, Vandalur Chennai-600 048 044-22751347,48,50/ 22751375 Cell: 9841103912/9444109089/9444885083 libworkshop@cresentcollege.org p_panneer@yahoo.co.in salis_info@yahoo.co.in ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121