Dear all, We have or had many consortium in libraries especially for periodicals procurement, but i do not understand why we do not understand the need of consortium for software management in libraries though many big government libraries are using similar software like Libsys, Koha, SOUL, Dspace, eprint, Joomla, ezproxy, …
Dear All After working on open source software since 5/6 year and implementation of the same at NIT Rourkela and various library, i would like to suggest use open source solution with in-house staff only if? 1. If you have dedicated library professional who are willing to give their personal …
Dear All I am sharing here my Unique and one of the most challenging experience in workshop on Koha and Dspace organized by INMANTEC, Ghaziabad, India from 14-16 July, 2017. Live dvd of Koha and Dspace was ready, contacted the organizer about computer hardware capability, oh it was only 1 …
Dear All Dear friends from West Bengal specially those who have recently joined as librarian in various colleges. I offer my voluntary service (No TA and Honorarium) for Implementation of Koha and DSpace in your libraries which is near to Kolkata. You all may join your hands and fix some …
Dear All I am Planning to visit New Delhi to participate and present paper in ICDL 2016 from 12-18 December, 2016, Raipur from 19-20, November, 2016 as resource person at IGKV and 25-26, November, 2016 Bhubaneswar for paper presentation at KIIT. Please let me know if you are willing to …
Dear All I along with Mr. Kapil Kumar Gupta have recently visited XYZ library for data conversion and implementation of Koha and DSpace. We have successfully migrated their old data and implemented the Koha (version 16.05) and DSpace (version 5.5). We have installed everything live but i was badly stuck …
Dear All, Today i attended Video conference on National digital library project by IIT Kharagpur. I observed the main focus of the entire project was to collect the METADATA from various sources including commercial publishers/aggregators like IEEE. I remember during trial access for some discovery tool like ebsco, ProQuest etc. …
Dear All, I am very much confused about the National digital library project (NDL) at IIT Kharagpur and Sodhganga of Inflibnet. Main reason is i came to know NDL is going to collect the Metadata from DSpace/Eprint repositories of various IITs, NITs etc. and provide a common platform to search …
Dear All, I have attended workshop on Koha and DSpace at IGKV (Indra Gandhi Krishi Vishwa vidyalaya) from 12-13 December, 2015 as resource person along with my friend Mr. D.P. Tripathi. It was a second time opportunity given to us by Dr. Madhav Pandey, Librarian, IGKV for which we are …
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, …