*National Workshop On “Open Source software – KOHA Training & Certification” on 27-28 May 2017* *Objective of the Workshop* - To introduce open source Integrated Library Software. - Make participant self-reliant with the respect installation, Configuration and running KOHA with Confidence *About the Workshop* KOHA is the world’s first free open source ILS Software. It is fully featured scalable library integrated software. It is used worldwide by public, Academic & Special Libraries. It is web based with a SQL database preferably MySql as Back end. Perl is used for front end. Cataloguing data is stored in MARC 21 format. It is accessible via Z39.50 or Search and Retrieve via URL(SRU). The user interface is very much configurable and adaptable. The software supports Web 2.0 facilities like tagging, commenting social sharing and RSS Feeds. It has ability to cope with any number of branches,Patrons, Patron Categories, item Categories, item Currencies and Other data. It has free support systems like Documentation, Mailing Lists and Internet Relay Chatting (IRC) Libraries are free to support the product in-house or can get help from a support company. *Workshop Contents* - Case Studies on KOHA - Instillation of Ubuntu 15.04 - Installation of KOHA 3.22 the current stable version - Configuration of KOHA and customization of interface - Data pre-processing, Marc Edit - Importing data into KOHA - Bulk Patron Data/Image importing - Introduction to all modules of KOHA - Administration - Acquisition - Authority Management - Cataloguing - Circulation - Tools - Patrons - Advanced Search - Customized Reports - Serials etc - Configuring Crontab - Basic SQL Commands - KOHA Communities. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.