Dear Friends, Ok, This can be easily done on a Wiki Page. People desiring to help in various library oriented softwares may add themselves to the following wiki page. http://oadl.pbwiki.com/Experts Those who do not want to take the trouble of editing a wiki, may kindly forward me their contact details and area of expertise. I will put it on this wiki page. Hope it helps. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. On 5/10/07, Rajan <rajankila@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear Singh,

Yes,

You may initiate voluntary effort.

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Please proceed with your ideas.

Regards,

K Rajasekharan Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680581

Ph 0487- 2204097 (O), 2201428 ( R)

----- Original Message ----- From: Sukhdev Singh To: G.K.MANJUNATH Cc: Rajan ; Lis Forum Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Need to Promote free library software

Dear friends,

What I feel is that organized efforts tend to die their natural death mainly due to administrative overheads and ego clashes. Perhaps voluntary efforts are more viable and sustainable. Can we start a voluntary effort?

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

On 5/10/07, G.K.MANJUNATH <gkm@igidr.ac.in> wrote:

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Sub: Open Source Software for LIS professionals. Dear Mr.Rajan,

It is a very good idea to identify volunteers (experts) who would train other professionals in open source software.

I have proposed similar idea to NASSDOC, New Delhi, with a difference

The proposal, which is under consideration, was to start the 'Staff Exchange Programme' in which LIS professionals who want to train others or those who want to learn from others, will visit a particular library on invitation for teaching/learing activitities.

How will this work?

1. Identify experts and develop an online database of experts

2. Invite experts for a specified period giving them local

hospitality, office space

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and Computing facility.

3. Arrgange lectures or seek technical support during his/her stay at the host institute.

4. Welcome other LIS professionals in that city to interact with the expert at the host institute during his/her stay.

The concept of 'Visiting Faculty' has been there since a long time in academics. We librarians need to start some things similar to this.

In the past we at IGIDR, had arranged such programs for LIS professionals who came at their expense and spent one week interacting with us. This interaction enabled to them to start automation work in their respective libraries.

Can we do some thing in this regard?

Thanks

G.K.Manjunath Chief Librarian Indira Gandhi Inst of Development Research Film City Road Santosh Nagar Goregaon(East ) MUMBAI - 400 065

Phone: 28416544

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Rajan wrote:

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Dear Mr Manjunath,

It would be better if you collect the list of libraries that uses other freely availble library packages like Weblis etc and publish it under different categories with the contact details of the persons well versed with the software so that anyone can get the expertise easily or clarify the doubts easily.

It seems that we should identify volunteers who would have an inclination to help other libraries to install and overcome initial issues. The volunteers should charge only travel and other minimal expenses from institutions that cannot pay much. There would be at least some who have interest to propagate IT applications by this way.

We can bring more libraries under the fold of IT applications, if someone could facilitates this work a little further.

Best Regards,

K Rajasekharan Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680581

Ph 0487- 2204097 (O), 2201428 ( R)

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