Hello friends,
We are planning to organise a traning programme on GSDL at our institute. I am enclosing the brochure of the same for your reference. Those who are interested may kindly contact the undersigned. The participation will be based on first come first serve basis.
The second programme for (next 25 participants) will be held in the month of December. Dates for the december programme shall be informed to the selected participants.
Regional Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software
Organised by Institute of Health Management Research, (IIHMR) Jaipur
Introduction
The digital age has ushered in significant changes in the information space in terms of operations, collection development strategies, services, and user preferences. The current information environment unequivocally prompts libraries to leverage on the latest digital technologies towards building practical digital libraries and in setting up dynamic electronic information systems. Digital Libraries (DL) enables the seamless integration of the scholarly electronic information, help in creating and maintaining local digital content, and strengthen the mechanisms and the capacity of the library’s information systems and services. DL increases the portability, efficiency of access, flexibility, availability and preservation of digital objects. Without proper understanding of the complexities, procedures and practices involved in content building, content management and collection building, individual DLs will remain islands of structure in an unstructured Internet sea. Today’s information / IT professional must be capable of leveraging the new technology to its fullest extent.
Objectives: The objective of the Workshop is to conduct a One day training programme on Digital Libraries using the Open Source Software ‘Greenstone’ at IIHMR, Jaipur.
Rationale: Developing world standard digital libraries demand deployment of costly software solutions which are beyond the reach of most of the universities/ institutions in India and those in the Asian region. The Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL) is a top of the line and internationally renowned software system for developing digital libraries, promoted by the New Zealand Digital Library project research group at the University of Waikato. More details of the software and example digital libraries built using the software is available at http://www.greenstone.org/.
Workshop Content: The Workshop has been designed to facilitate the participants in creating state-of-art digital libraries using Greenstone, which include software installation, configuration, customization, digitization and other related workflow operations, content development and management, designing and creating standard metadata sets to describe digital objects and encoding it in standard markup formats.
Pedagogy: The workshop will be conducted at IIHMR, Jaipur which is equipped with world-class lecture rooms and computing laboratories with high speed Internet link. For lab session, each participant will be provided a PC. The pedagogy will be a mix of lectures, discussions, case studies and hands-on sessions. Each participant shall be provided with a CD comprising of the Greenstone Software, faculty presentations, and other related software packages. Extensive hands-on labs will be a hall mark of this programme.
Target Audience: The workshop will be of immense benefit to all those involved in developing and maintaining digital collections such as librarians and information professionals, including software professionals belonging to the academia, Government and NGOs.
Workshop Faculty: Lata Suresh, Manager-Library
Workshop Coordinators : Kamlesh Sharma- Assistant Librarian, Alok Sharma- Library Assistant, Seema Kumari- Assistant
Workshop Effect: At the end of the workshop, the participants are expected to be well-versed and confident of developing digital libraries using the Greenstone software.
Follow-up : Follow-up support shall be extended through emails to the participants.
Registration Fee: A fee of Rs. 800 only (without accommodation) that includes 2 tea with snacks training materials and lunch.
Workshop Participants: The participants are limited to 25 only. Selection of candidates will be made as per merit, commitment to DLs and familiarity with IT applications in libraries. Applications/ nominations should reach the IIHMR Library Office on or before July 5, 2010. Participants, while applying, shall give a brief statement of interest in Greenstone, major objectives of attending the workshop as well as their expectations from the programme.
Dates and Venue
The workshop will be held on Saturday, July 10, 2010 at IIHMR, Jaipur
For Inquires Contact
Mrs. Lata Suresh
Manager- Library and Documentation Centre
Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR)
No.1, Prabhu Dayal Marg, Sanganer Airport
Jaipur – 302011, Rajasthan
INDIA
Ph : + 91 141 3924700-730 etx 727 Fax: + 91 141 3924738
URL : www.iihmr.org, Email : lata@iihmr.org
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Best wishes and regards
Lata Suresh
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