Three Days Koha workshop.
Organisers: Marian College, Kuttikkanam, Kottayam, Kerala in association with Mahatma Gandhi University.
Dates: 17-19 May 2012
Learning plan
Skillsets required for Koha maintenance
Hardware requirements
Software requirements
Koha release schedules
Types of Koha implementation
Methods of Koha installation
How to update with changes in Koha.
Wikipedia offers a lot of opportunities for the academic and research community to develop content collaboratively. Wikipedia and related projects can use for educational activities to enhance the skillsets of the academic community. Wikipedia and libraries are two significant initiatives that seek to open the door to knowledge. Libraries can inspire and guide users to contribute content to the Wikipedia project. This article describes the significance of libraries to coordinate Wikipedia activities for the user community.
Self Publishing is the publication of an author's work without the help of any publishing house. The author takes full responsibility for the publishing process, and they print and sell it using either alone or with the help of self-publishing service providers. The author has the freedom to make independent decisions. The author will have complete control over the manuscript selection, processing, printing, marketing and distribution of the book. This presentation talks about the various approaches to the self-publishing of books.
WordPress Plugins are add on tools with WordPress content management system, useful for easy information management on websites. Mahatma Gandhi University Library website adopted WordPress Plugins for the management of the staff and the e-resources directory. The user-friendly control centre of the plugins helps the library staff updates the information on the website without any delay and errors.
Three Days Koha workshop.
Organisers: Marian College, Kuttikkanam, Kottayam, Kerala in association with Mahatma Gandhi University.
Dates: 17-19 May 2012
Learning plan
Skillsets required for Koha maintenance
Hardware requirements
Software requirements
Koha release schedules
Types of Koha implementation
Methods of Koha installation
How to update with changes in Koha.
Wikipedia offers a lot of opportunities for the academic and research community to develop content collaboratively. Wikipedia and related projects can use for educational activities to enhance the skillsets of the academic community. Wikipedia and libraries are two significant initiatives that seek to open the door to knowledge. Libraries can inspire and guide users to contribute content to the Wikipedia project. This article describes the significance of libraries to coordinate Wikipedia activities for the user community.
Self Publishing is the publication of an author's work without the help of any publishing house. The author takes full responsibility for the publishing process, and they print and sell it using either alone or with the help of self-publishing service providers. The author has the freedom to make independent decisions. The author will have complete control over the manuscript selection, processing, printing, marketing and distribution of the book. This presentation talks about the various approaches to the self-publishing of books.
WordPress Plugins are add on tools with WordPress content management system, useful for easy information management on websites. Mahatma Gandhi University Library website adopted WordPress Plugins for the management of the staff and the e-resources directory. The user-friendly control centre of the plugins helps the library staff updates the information on the website without any delay and errors.
Collection of Periodicals is very important for any academic library. Management of periodicals in academic libraries is one of the complex processes. Library professionals are facing so many issues with periodicals like space, staff, finance, subscription of related subject, circulation etc.
Kerala Library Association-Kottayam Region and Mahatma Gandhi University Library are jointly organising a talk and interactive session on Management of Print and E-journals in Academic Libraries at the Seminar Hall of Mahatma Gandhi University Library at 10:30 AM on 27 June 2018.
The following topics covered in the session:
Issues in the print and e-journals acquisition
Financial management
Selection tools for periodicals
How to deal with suppliers and agents
Recording system for periodicals
Archival of back volumes
Furniture and equipment for periodical section
Preparation of current periodicals list
Document delivery services from periodical section
Tutorial on Ubuntu on the occasion of Ubuntu 18.04 Release Party. Organised by Mahatma Gandhi University Library and Kerala Library Association-Kottayam Region.
Modernisation of Kerala Public Libraries is a massive project of Kerala State Library Council. The project aims to connect all public libraries of Kerala into a single network. It also includes training on modern library management to village librarians. Koha facilitates the platform to connect with the entire public library system. The project is a challenging task and at the same time it opens up a big opportunity for libraries to regain its glory in the networked Kerala society.
Scholarly Open access journals are leaping to more heights with the wide acceptance among academic community. Predatory open access journals are growing like weeds exploiting the good intention of Open Access movement. Predatory open access journals are charging fees from authors to publish the paper with misleading metrics and without following legacy editorial processes . Young scholars are the victims of predatory of open access journals. This paper discuss the nature and operations of predatory journals and suggests defence mechanisms to keep away those predators from academic community.
Open Source softwares are the products of voluntary effort of developers and end users. Koha is an active Open Source library management system project make using voluntary effort of programmers and library professionals. As non developers, library professionals involvement is very necessary in various stages of the software development. Koha user community is a growing one and the project offer variety of non developer roles for library professionals. Library professionals can report bugs, documentation writing, plugin development and training. The main aim of the survey is to know the participation and contribution of Library professionals in Koha Open Source software project.
This survey examines the popularity of LIS-Forum email discussion forum among Library and Information Science professionals in India. This study sort out the limitations of this email based discussion forum on the basis of perceptions of LIS-Forum users. LIS-Forum community also recommended new features and suggestions to improve the service in the context of web 2.0 phenomenon.
Three Days Koha workshop.
Organisers: Marian College, Kuttikkanam, Kottayam, Kerala in association with Mahatma Gandhi University.
Dates: 17-19 May 2012
Registration Fee Rs. 1500 including food and accommodation.
Koha Live CD’s are useful tools for installation and learning purpose. Availability of Koha live CD is one of the reason that increased the popularity of Koha among library professionals. With the help of Koha Live CD, library professionals can try and install Koha without having much technical know how. It also saves considerable time for the installation of Koha software during training programmes.
Collection of Periodicals is very important for any academic library. Management of periodicals in academic libraries is one of the complex processes. Library professionals are facing so many issues with periodicals like space, staff, finance, subscription of related subject, circulation etc.
Kerala Library Association-Kottayam Region and Mahatma Gandhi University Library are jointly organising a talk and interactive session on Management of Print and E-journals in Academic Libraries at the Seminar Hall of Mahatma Gandhi University Library at 10:30 AM on 27 June 2018.
The following topics covered in the session:
Issues in the print and e-journals acquisition
Financial management
Selection tools for periodicals
How to deal with suppliers and agents
Recording system for periodicals
Archival of back volumes
Furniture and equipment for periodical section
Preparation of current periodicals list
Document delivery services from periodical section
Tutorial on Ubuntu on the occasion of Ubuntu 18.04 Release Party. Organised by Mahatma Gandhi University Library and Kerala Library Association-Kottayam Region.
Modernisation of Kerala Public Libraries is a massive project of Kerala State Library Council. The project aims to connect all public libraries of Kerala into a single network. It also includes training on modern library management to village librarians. Koha facilitates the platform to connect with the entire public library system. The project is a challenging task and at the same time it opens up a big opportunity for libraries to regain its glory in the networked Kerala society.
Scholarly Open access journals are leaping to more heights with the wide acceptance among academic community. Predatory open access journals are growing like weeds exploiting the good intention of Open Access movement. Predatory open access journals are charging fees from authors to publish the paper with misleading metrics and without following legacy editorial processes . Young scholars are the victims of predatory of open access journals. This paper discuss the nature and operations of predatory journals and suggests defence mechanisms to keep away those predators from academic community.
Open Source softwares are the products of voluntary effort of developers and end users. Koha is an active Open Source library management system project make using voluntary effort of programmers and library professionals. As non developers, library professionals involvement is very necessary in various stages of the software development. Koha user community is a growing one and the project offer variety of non developer roles for library professionals. Library professionals can report bugs, documentation writing, plugin development and training. The main aim of the survey is to know the participation and contribution of Library professionals in Koha Open Source software project.
This survey examines the popularity of LIS-Forum email discussion forum among Library and Information Science professionals in India. This study sort out the limitations of this email based discussion forum on the basis of perceptions of LIS-Forum users. LIS-Forum community also recommended new features and suggestions to improve the service in the context of web 2.0 phenomenon.
Three Days Koha workshop.
Organisers: Marian College, Kuttikkanam, Kottayam, Kerala in association with Mahatma Gandhi University.
Dates: 17-19 May 2012
Registration Fee Rs. 1500 including food and accommodation.
Koha Live CD’s are useful tools for installation and learning purpose. Availability of Koha live CD is one of the reason that increased the popularity of Koha among library professionals. With the help of Koha Live CD, library professionals can try and install Koha without having much technical know how. It also saves considerable time for the installation of Koha software during training programmes.