--- On Thu, 30/4/09, SAVITHRY tk <[email protected]> wrote:
From: SAVITHRY tk <[email protected]>
Subject: [nmlis] DSpace Workshop: experience
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, 30 April, 2009, 12:53 PM
Dear Professionals,
The Department of Library and Information Science, University of
Kerala and Kerala State Council for Science and Technology (KSCSTE)
jointly conducted a three- day workshop on DSpace (on Windows) from 23rd to
25th April 2009 at Dept.of Library and Information Science, University of
Kerala . I am one of the participants of the workshop. The sections were handed
by Dr. G. Santhosh Kumar, Faculty, Dept. of Computer Science, and Sri.
Surendran Cherukodan , Junior Librarian, School of Engineering ,Cochin
University of Science and Technology who are working with CUSAT Digital
Library using DSpace http://dspace. cusat.ac. in/dspace/
We successfully installed DSpace 1.5.2 that just released on 15th April 2009
. We learned the concept of Communities/ Sub communities/ Collections/ Items in
DSpace. We uploaded digital contents to communities. We were taught to change
the Logo of Dspace, Putting a picture as Welcome Message, Change Colour of
Sidebar, Search box, Enabling RSS Feeds, Change a form value (Type of Content)
, keeping backups etc. The workshop gave thrust to hands on training. The
participants were senior library professionals and system analysts from various
organisations. The interactive sections were also very active.
My observations
1. The main attraction of this workshop was that the organisers didn’t
charge any fee. They provided course material both in hard and soft copy, lunch
and kit free of cost.
2. The well designed (with a lot of screen shots) course material was
found to be an effective tool for easily installing DSpace without the help of
anybody.
3. The methods of instructions and interactions of resource persons and
participants helped to understand the practical problems in creating,
organising and maintaining an Institutional repository, advantages of Dspace
over other software’s etc.
4. The workshop also helped to create confidence in participants in
creating Institutional Repositories. Awareness about open source software was
also important.
5. The participants are very much thankful to the organisers.
I would like to congratulate the resource persons and the organisers for
organising such a wonderful workshop.
Regards
Savithry T. K
Research Scholar
Dept. of Library & Information Science
Univ. of Kerala , Trivandrum
Email: savithr...@yahoomai l.com
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