Brief Summary of the UGC
Sponsored National Workshop on
DSpace: The
Open Source Software Package
August 28-30,
2017
Organised By
Guwahati
College Bamunimaidam, Guwahati-781021
In Association
With
Assam College Librarians’ Association (ACLA)
The programme started on 28th
August, 2017 with the registration of the participants at 8.30 am in which 26 participants
registered for the workshop. This was followed by the inaugural session. Mr.
Anujay Kumar Saikia, Librarian and coordinator of the organising committee gave
the welcome address to the delegates and the participants and others present in
the auditorium. Prof. Parnanb Goswami, HOD of the Deptt. of Chemistry, Guwahati
College welcome the dignitaries to the dias and was followed by felicitation to
Dr. Pranab Sandilya, Principal and Chairman of the National Workshop Organising
Committee, Dr. Harendra Chandra Das, President, Governing Body, Guwahati
College, Prof. Sanjay Kumar Singh, HoD, Deptt. of Library and Information
Science, Gauhati University and Dr. Prasanta Deka, Librarian, K. C. Das
Commerce College and General Secretary, ACLA. The resource persons present were
Dr. Tilak Hazarika, Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Library and Information
Science, Gauhati University, Dr. Nabajyoti Das, Librarian, Handique Girls’
College, Dr. Gautam Sarma, Librarian, K. K. Handiqui State Open University,
Guwahati and Mr. Birender Pal, Librarian, Dhakuakhana College, Dhakuakhana.
They were also felicitated by the members of the organising committee. This was
followed by lighting of candle and devotional song by Ashmita Deka of Guwahati
College. Dr. Pranab Sandilya delivered the presidential Speech. Key note speech
was delivered by Prof. Sanjay Kumar Singh, HoD, Deptt. of Library and
Information Science, Gauhati University covering the detail in various aspects
of digital library and institutional repositories. This was followed by speech
by Dr. Harendra Chandra Das, President, Governing Body, Guwahati College and
Dr. Prasanta Deka, Librarian, K C Das Commerce College and General Secretary,
ACLA. Dr. Sonaram Hazarika, Faculty, Deptt. of Assamese, Guwahati College also
delivered speech from audience. Vote of thanks was given by Swapna Barua, HoD,
Deptt of Commerce, Guwahati College.
After the tea break, the first
session was taken by Dr. Gautam Sarma on descriptive view of the open source
software and DSpace Software. He delivered lecture on the topic Building
Digital Library using DSpace open source software. The 2nd session
was taken by Dr. Tilak Hazarika on Linux Installation. His topic was “Basics of
Linux: Installation and basic commands” followed by hands on training .
The first session of the 2nd
day was taken by Dr. Badan Barman, Assistant Professor, Gauhati University on Basics
of Scripting Languages which was followed by hands on practice. After the tea
break, the 2nd session was taken by Mr. Birender Pal on DSpace
workflow Management with hands on practice. In the 3rd session after
the lunch break, Dr. Dipen Deka took a session on User Management in DSpace which
was followed by hands on and continued till session 4.
30/08/2017
The third day programme was
started with the hands-on session by Dr. S Ravi Kumar, Assistant Professor,
Deptt. of Library of Information Science, North Eastern Hill University,
Shillong. Professor D. S. Rath from Kalyani University in his concluding
session stressed on continuous effort and practice on DSpace to get success on
the use of DSpace to create Institutional repositories. This was followed by Valedictory
Session.
