Dear Friends, Today I am start to Dravidian University, Kuppam to attend National Conference on "Emerging Trends in User Expectations for Next Generation Libraries" on 24-26 February 2012. We have prepared a paper to present there, title of the paper is " A STUDY ON MANAGING KOHA OPEN SOURCE LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING LIVE CD". I would like to meet participants who are interested in Open Source Library Management Systems and discuss recent trends. I will also bring a well customized Koha Live DVD. If you bring a blank DVD, you can obtain a copy of the Koha Live DVD. Following are the highlights of Koha Live DVD, Koha customised for ready to use, Zebra server enabled, Ready to handle Unicode charecters (Indian Languages), Customised MARC fields in cataloguing module, Webmin included for scheduling database backup, Build on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Sample reports, Simplified installation procedures, Detailed Read Me file. Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.