[Dspace-general] Report on Workshop at BNMIT

[Raja Kumar]

Dear Professional Friends,

Excerpts of National Workshop on Design and Organisation of Institutional
Repositories (IR) Using DSpace (1.5.2) organised by Library and Information
Centre, B. N. M. Institution of Technology, Bangalore on 9th January 2010.

The workshop witnessed astounding response from 180 plus delegates across
the country out of which 110 participants were from the VTU affiliated
engineering colleges. The Inaugural function commenced with the welcome
address by Dr. K. Udayakumar, Principal, BNMIT. The program formally
inaugurated by lighting the lamp by Prof. Balaji, Registrar, VTU, Dr. I. K.
Ravichandra Rao, Professor, DRTC, ISI, Prof. B. C. Rajanna, Chairman, BNMIE,
Sri. Narayana Rao Maanay, Secretary of BNMIE.

R. M. Puttaswamy, Librarian, BNMIT and Organising Secretary, presented a
brief note on the workshop. Dr. I. K. R. was felicitated by the management
of BNMIE. After the felicitation Dr. I. K. R. delivered keynote address on
the importance of IR, Issues, Challenges and he emphasized on the OAI and
Metadata Harvesting. He has thrown light on digital revolution, advantages
and objectives of IR. He pointed out, how students can make use of IR in
their learning. He discussed about the content and management in terms of
written policy on development of IR and indexing the content in IR.

Another guest Dr. K. V. A. Balaji, Registrar, VTU, spoke on the strengths of
Visvesvaraya Technological University in terms of no. of colleges, no. of
UG, PG and Research Programs. He has appreciated the development of
libraries in knowledge creation and dissemination. He also assured that
university will provide any kind of support to interlink IRs developed by
colleges with VTU research portal. Elaborating further, he mentioned that
libraries should attract youngsters and make optimum utilization of
available resources.

Sri. Narayana Rao Maanay has released the DVD of the workshop. Prof. B. C.
Rajanna delivered Presidential Remarks and he pointed out that how libraries
are transformed from the traditional to virtual form. Prof. T. J. Rama
Murthy, Director, BNMIE proposed vote of thanks.

Dr. M. Krishna Murthy, Faculty, DRTC was the resource person for the
technical
session; he delivered presentation on An overview of Institutional
Repositories  A present scenario & IR Open Access, Archives, OAI-PMH
working principles?. After the first technical session, Sri. R.M. Putta
Swamy, briefed about the Institutional Repositories maintained at BNMIT
Library by Using DSpace. This session was well interacted by the delegates
by getting the tips and ideas on design and organization of institutional
Repositories.

Afterwards participants were moved to computer lab for hands on session on
installation of Fedora 9 operating system. After the delicious, lunch
brainstorming hands-on-training session on DSpace 1.5.2 was started. The
current version of DSpace 1.5.2 software was successfully installed and all
the delegates were happy and expressed their satisfaction.

Sri. Choudappa N., President, AKELPA felicitated the engineering college
librarians who achieved their Ph.D. degree recently. They are, Dr. Dinesh K.
S., who completed his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Dr. Khaiser
Nikam, UOM, Dr. K. R. Mulla under the supervision of Dr. Chandrashekar M.,
UOM and Dr. H. M. Chidananda Swamy under the guidance of Dr. B.U.
Kannappanavar, Kuvempu University.

Soon after the high-tea, concluding session commenced with a welcome speech
by Dr. K. Ranga, Dean, BNMIT. Sri. R.M. Putta Swamy, presented the detailed
report about the workshop. Few of the participants gave the feedback about
the workshop. Sri. P.S. Manjunatha, Librarian, MBA library introduced the
Chief Guest Dr. M. Krishna Murthy.

Dr. Krishna Murthy spoke on the advantages of DSpace to colleges and said
that in
India this is the first workshop on DSpace 1.5.2 latest version of DSpace.
Sri. Maanay delivered presidential remarks and expressed his happiness over
the turn out as he was not expected and analysed it as created benchmark in
the institution. He also opined that it is necessary to equip oneself to
serve better in library to meet the challenge of the future with advent of
future ICTs. Dr. Shana D. Gowda, Professor, concluded the session with vote
of thanks.

At the end there was a huge appreciation from the delegates about the
arrangements, hospitality of the BNMIT.

Thanks,

S.Rajakumar, M.L.I.Sc..
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