<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><B><U><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dspace workshop at Mysore university –<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A Report<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></U></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><B><U><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></U></B></div> <div class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“All is well that ends well “ was the dictum of the Friday Talk – MULISSA workshop on Dspace , at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore, INDIA.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The WORKSHOP ‘s title was ” <B>Dspace for Global Access to Science
Information –all the FOSS about Building Institutional Repositories”<o:p></o:p></B></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The workshop contents were conceptualized and facilitated by Dr Khaiser Nikam, Reader Department of Library and Information Science, who is into building Institutional Repository of the science communications of University of Mysore using Dspace.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>At sharp 10.00AM Dr Khaiser along with Dr M.Krishnamurthy, Librarian’s, Bangalore placed the workshop in context. Totally there were 80 participants, including a few library trainees and current students of Library and Information Science pursuing MLISc program. All the faculty members of the department joined hands in making this unique event a grand success.
Research scholarly from Yaman and Iran also took part in the workshop.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Dr Krishnamurthy,Librarian<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> ,resource person </SPAN>spoke on the OAI movement in the contemporary Information based society emphasizing the need for free access for science information through tools like FOSS – more so with Dspace.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>After a couple of theory classes, Dr. Krishnamurthy, Librarian, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre took practical sessions, giving a live demo of how to down load Dspace and work on it to the young and bubbling audience whose average age is some thing like 23- 24 years .All the participants interacted very well to clarify some of the doubts they had
in their minds.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>End of the day Dr Khaiser thanked the participants and the resource person. Prof VG Talawar gave away the participants the certificates of appreciation Ms sajana reviewed the days proceedings & the workshop.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Excerpts of the students”(prepared by Ms .C Sajana) review are as follows:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The workshop held on 13/04/07 on Dspace was very informative
.It was an awesome experience to listen to such knowledge driven sessions on Dspace. Both theoretical and practical sessions gave a clear picture outlining different layers of OAI and Dspace, of course which was the main course of the sumptuous talk .We were able to gain practical knowledge of the all the aspects of Dspace .Dr.Krishnamurthy explain all the processes of installing D space in a simple and understandable manner .</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT> </div><PRE><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times
New Roman'">Some photos of workshop </SPAN></PRE><PRE><A href="http://new.photos.yahoo.com/album?c=dvklibrary&aid=576460762397874567&pid=&wtok=QKgsjREVNw7RMisItMXpHQ--&ts=1176535605&.src=ph" target=_blank><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">http://new.photos.yahoo.com/album?c=dvklibrary&aid=576460762397874567&pid=&wtok=QKgsjREVNw7RMisItMXpHQ--&ts=1176535605&.src=ph</FONT></A></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"> </FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Rajakumar</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Library,</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Oxford College, Bangalore</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </PRE> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></div><p> 
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