I request you to kindly to post the following message on LIS Forum: Koha Workshop Series for Library Automation and Resource Sharing Network Project of National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT), MHRD The Project Team of Library Automation and Resource Sharing Network Project (see http://n-larn.ac.in) under NMEICT (National Mission on Education through ICT) of MHRD is organizing third round of workshops on Koha including MARC 21 bibliographic format and Indic scripts based document management as per the following schedule: Sl No Workshop Venue Local Coordinator Dates 1. Central Library, IIT Madras, Chennai - 600 036 Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian and Dr. Mahendra N. Jadhav Deputy Librarian Central Library, IIT Madras e-mail: jadhavm@iitm.ac.in June 12- 15, 2013 2. Central Library, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, U.P.,India Dr. Ajay Kumar Srivastava , Librarian, central Library, BHU e-mail : librarian.bhu@gmail.com June 27-30, 2013 3. Department of Library and Information Sc, Gauhati University Guwahati 781014 Prof. Narendra Lahkar Head, Dept of Lib & Inf Science, Gauhati University Guwahati 781014 Email: nlahkar@gmail.com July 5- 9, 2013 Participation is invited from library professionals of colleges affiliated to UGC/AICTE or other government higher education institutions. There is no registration fees, however, the participants will have to make arrangement for their own travel and accommodation. Interested professionals may send a mail to the project team listed below, showing their interest and detailed information (name and address of college, name of delegate, professional experience, college affiliation, state-of-the library automation, e-mail, mobile number etc.). Participating libraries need to be bibliographic data partner of the project to submit and receive validated MARC data to/from the Z 39.50 server created by the project team for the purpose. Participants will have to sign an agreement duly endorsed by the head of the institution to share bibliographic data for the union catalogue. Participation will be confirmed only after receiving the agreement (form attached). The hard copy of the filled in form has to be mailed to the local coordinator of the workshop. Admission to the Workshop will be on a 'first-come first-served' basis and will be confirmed on receiving the agreement form. Participants will be provided a Live Software DVD (an easy-to-install software suite containing Koha and other library related software like Greenstone, DSpace, Joomla, Open Harvester, Open Journal System, easy backup/restore of bibliographic data, and many more in Unicode-compliant Indic Scripts-enabled environment on Ubuntu LTS),Training manual, Working lunch and refreshments. Project Team: Prof. Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU, Principal Investigator (ukanjilal@ignou.ac.in) Prof. K. S. Raghavan, DRTC (Retired), Co-Principal Investigator (ksragav@hotmail.com) Dr. Parthasarthi Mukopadhyay, Kalyani University, Co-Principal Investigator (psmukhopadhyay@gmail.com)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Prof. Uma Kanjilal Director I/c Advanced Centre for Informatics & Innovative Learning (ACIIL) Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, India Pin 110 068 Phone: + 91-11-29533068 (O) +91-11-29572714 (O) Fax: +91-11-29534216 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.