Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:34:25 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam Friends: Let us hope that many higher educational and research institutions in India set up their own interoperable institutional archives/repositories soon. We at MSSRF had organised two three-day workshops in early May and 48 participants took advantage of the workshops. Please see Current Science dated 25 June 2004 for a report on the workshops. Later this month Dr Rajashekar at NCSI-IISc is organising a three-day workshop for INDEST member institutions. Dr D K Sahu [dksahu@medknow.com] is running a discussion list for the faculty and participants of the MSSRF workshops. The faculty and participants of the Osmania University workshop and the NCSI-IISc workshop are invited to join the list. Holding workshops is one thing and actually setting up archives and populating them is another. I wish all the participants and faculty of the Osmania University workshop great success in setting up their own institutional archives. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]