Wednesday, June 10, 2009

NCSI-IDRC Workshop on Library Automation Packages and Digital Library Software: July 27th to 31st and August 3rd to 7th, 2009
Two workshops on Library Automation Packages (LAP) and its Integration with Digital Library Software are organised at National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore from July 27th to 31st and August 3rd to 7th. Topics covered include Installation, Staff-Client and OPAC modules of a few LAP and its Integration with Digital Library Software on Linux (Ubuntu) platform.
The workshops are organised as part of a project on ILAP carried out at NCSI, funded by The International Development Research Centre (IDRC), a Crown Corporation and an agency of the Government of Canada. One of the objectives of the project is to test the available open source technological tools for the development of union catalogue and to train manpower to implement union catalogue at their respective institutions/libraries. To fulfill this objective, a series of workshops is organised. First workshop was conducted from 5th to 9th January, 2009. Second workshop (July 27th to 31st, 2009) and third workshop (August 3rd to 7th, 2009) are being organised now.

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