Category: <span>Automation</span>

Category: Automation

My experience of Implementing Koha at MITT, Madhupur, Jharkhand

Dear All, It was a nice experience to implement Koha at remote area of Jharkhand state called Madhupur. I appreciate the effort and initiative of Principal and Librarian, Madhusthali Institute of Teachers Training http://www.mitt.in/ for taking such a wonderful step for making their library automated with most modern software. Approx 4000 …

My experience at JILA conference Ranchi as invited speaker

Dear All, It was nice experience to share my thoughts at JILA conference, Ranchi. The topic was “Re-engineering Public Library and Academic Library Systems in India” many papers were presented with suggestions and how to improve the existing systems. Many issues were raised to Re-engineering the existing libraries like finance, …

Free Trainer/resource person on open source software

Dear All, First of all i wish a very happy Librarians day to all. Today i formally announce my small contribution  for helping people who need some help in implementation of open source software and conducting workshop on that but could not do due to some financial constraints. I would …

Seeking assistance in Providing Useful Links for Koha ILMS

Dear All, I am trying to compile Useful links related to Koha library management software which is available at https://itshelp.co.in/koha/ . Instead of creating my own pages i found its necessary to have just link to already available pages/solutions and giving credits to those who have already done the job. …

My experience of Revamping Koha at MGAHV

Dear All, Recently i visited Central Library MGAHV http://www.hindivishwa.org/contentdtl.aspx?category=13&cgid=34 for some solutions related to existing Koha library management software. I observed that the software was installed on non recommended operating system (Centos) due to which up-gradation was very difficult as well as auto backup and indexing was not working at …

Can association support to LIS community in automation?

Dear All, I am just thinking about the contributions of LIS associations for advancement of technical services in library and information science field and hardly found much. Therefore i suggest one best and effective way for the same as follows: Since Koha are very popular now a days in India …

Result of survey regarding migration of Library software

Dear All, Few days back i put a online survey form for small survey regarding change/migration from existing Library management software to other open source software. The result indicates most of the people migrated to Koha and shifted from Libsys and other ILMS. Hence the result is very clear indicative …

Suitable dates for Workshop/Software implementations

Dear All, Please find here our next holidays calender and you may organize events like workshop on Koha, DSpace, Joomla, Newgenlib etc. and implementation of above software’s in your institutes. During these days myself and my colleague Mr. D.P. Tripathi will have much freedom to travel as there will be …