Library Automation and Resource Sharing Network Project (see koha.ignouonline.ac.in) under NMEICT (National Mission on Education through ICT) is going to organize the second workshop (Koha 3.8.2 on Ubuntu platform including MARC 21 bibliographic format and Indic scripts based document management) under a workshop series during July 20-23, 2012, at Bose Institute, P 1/12, C. I. T. Road, Scheme - VIIM Kolkata - 700054, West Bengal, India (see http://bic.boseinst.ernet.in/seminar.html/). The workshop involves no registration fees for librarians of colleges affiliated to UGC/AICTE. It will provide participants 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. No accommodation and TA/DA are admissible in the project workshop. Interested professionals may send a mail to lan.nmeict@gmail.com showing their interest and details info (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 (see http://irspy.indexdata.com/full.html?id=Z39.50%3Akoha.ignouonline.ac.in%3A99...) created by the project team for the purpose. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani - 741 235 (WB), India ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.