National workshop on Koha

Venue: BCM College, Kottayam, Kerala State-686 001 

Online registration Link: https://rzp.io/l/dakf-bcm 

Target audience: Library Science students and professionals. 

Intake Capacity: 30 Registration 

Fees: Rs. 1100 (Includes Lunch and Tea) 

Accommodation: The conference fee does not include your accommodation. Organisers will help you to find accommodation in Kottayam town. 

Resource Persons for the Workshop 

1. Dr Vimal Kumar V, Reference Assistant, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala State, India.
2. Subeesh Gopinathan, Librarian, St. Mary's Women's College for Teacher Education, Thiruvalla.
3. Mahesh Palamuttath, Librarian, East Campus, Sacred Heart College, Kochi. 

Organising Secretary: Jincy Philip ( Sr. Gracena ), Librarian (UGC), BCM College, Kottayam. 

Contact Person: Dr. Vimal Kumar V., Secretary, DAKF, Kottayam. Mobile: 9846496323

National workshop on design and development of digital libraries using Dspace

Marian College, Kuttikkanam, Kottayam District, Kerala is organising a two days workshop on Dspace digital library software.

Date: March 22-23, 2013 (Friday and Saturday)

TARGET PARTICIPANTS
Participants of the Workshop are Librarians from Universities, Colleges, Schools, and other Institutions. Library and Information Science students and teaches
can also participate in the Workshop.

OPERATING PLATFORM & METHODOLOGY
Lectures, demonstration, discussions and extensive practical sessions will be available.

RESOURCE PERSONS
The workshop sessions will be handled by experts from reputed academic institutions.

CONVENER
Mr Jobin Jose, Librarian, Marian College Kuttikkanam

REGISTRATION
· A maximum of 30 participants will be permitted. · Admission is on first-come-first-serve basis.
· The registration fee: ‘Rs.2000/- (To be paid by Demand Draft in favour of The Principal, Marian College Kuttikkanam payable at Peermade)

The Registration fee includes workshop kit, food and accommodation.

For Registration please visit
www.mariancollege.org
or mail to
mcklibrary at gmail.com, jobinjobinjo  at gmail.com,

MARIAN COLLEGE KUTTIKKANAM
Founded in 1995 as an Aided College affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Marian College Kuttikkanam epitomizes the educational mission and objectives of the Catholic Diocese of Kanjirapally. The college is situated at Kuttikkanam in idukki district, among the undulating mountain ranges of the Western Ghats offering a beautiful environment conducive to education. High standards of quality are ensured in all pursuits at Marian. As a centre of knowledge generation and empowerment, the College has always taken up new initiatives and new vistas of exploration. Marian is committed to quality education in all dimensions. Marian prepares students to meet the challenges
and competition that await them beyond the College walls, and gears them up for career and life.

National level workshop on Koha at GIPE, Pune

"National level workshop on Koha: an Integrated Library Management Software" from Saturday - Sunday, 30 Jun and 01 Jul 2012. Purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with Koha, an open source software. Hands on Training during this workshop will provide all the technical know-how to the participants from the installation, customization, backup / restore, upgrade as well as running various modules of the software. Koha is used widely in India as well as all over the world. Koha Software supports all modules of Library Management System such as Acquisitions, Cataloging, Circulation, Serials Control and Web based OPAC, etc. The software is UNICODE compliant and runs on any operating system such as Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris. Many libraries in India and abroad are switching over to Koha from proprietary software.

Venue: Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune

Workshop Timings: 10.00 am to 05.30 pm (30 Jun - 01 Jul 2012)

Workshop Contents

Introduction to LibLiveCD and Installation of LibLiveCD

Koha Introduction & Features Overview

Koha System Set-up 

Hands on training on Acquisitions, Cataloging, Circulation, Serial Control & OPAC

MARC 21 Introduction

Conversion of Existing Data to Koha

Koha Multilingual Support

Data Import and Export

Koha backup/restore

Koha upgrade

OPAC Customization

Koha System Administration

Resource Persons

Dr. Nanaji Shewale, GIPE, Pune

Dr. Sunita Barve, NCRA, Pune

Workshop Registration Fees - Rs. 1000/- only

Registration Fees includes Workshop Kit on CD-ROM and Working Lunch. We will also assist the participants to migrate existing library data to Koha. Accommodation is available at extra cost.

Payment: A Demand Draft / Cheque drawn on any Nationalized Bank in favour of “Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE)", payable at Pune should reach the following address on or before Friday, 22 Jun 2012.

Dr Nanaji Shewale

Koha Workshop Coordinator

Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE)

B M C C Road, Deccan Gymkhana

Pune 411004 (India)

Last Date for Registration: Friday, 22 Jun 2012. For any clarifications, you are welcome to contact me at 020 25679940, 0 9423531433 or gipelibrary@gmail.com or my colleague Ms Shilpa Kad at 0 9763740109.

Registration Form

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Koha workshop at Indian Institute of Chemical Biology

Library Automation and Resource Sharing Network Project under NMEICT
is going to organize the first workshop (on Ubuntu and Koha 3.8.1 including MARC 21 bibliographic format) of a workshop series during June 15-18, 2012, at Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Jadavpur, Kolkata - 32. The workshop involves no registration fees for librarian of colleges affiliated to UGC/AICTE. It will provide participants Software DVD, Training manual, Working lunch and refreshments. No accommodation and TA/DA are available. Interested

professionals may send a mail to lan.nmeict@gmail.com showing their
interest and details info (name and address of college, name of delegate, professional experience, college affiliation, state-of-thelibrary automation, e-mail, mobile numbe etc.).