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Report: International Training on e-Library

Posted on August 2, 2011 by admin

University of Waikato, New Zealand, DlnetSA, LISolutions and e-HAP jointly organized a three day international training on e-Library at COMSATS Headquarter, Islamabad.

Training team was as under:

Mr. Ata ur Rehman (LISolutions) – Lead Trainer
Mr. Mohan Raj Pradhan (DlnetSA Nepal) – Trainer
Mr. Muhammad Shafiq Rana (LISolutions) – Trainer

Fifteen professionals from different areas of Pakistan participated in this training. The purpose of this training was to equip the professionals with advanced level training on Greenstone Digital Library Software and Koha ILS. Both the software are Free and Open Source and can be used to manage the libraries having hard form material and digital material.

For this purpose Digital Library Network of South Asia (DlnetSA) has created an integrated live CD having both the software which are integrated to give the complete solution for professionals. List of participants is given below

1	Abida Hanif	Incharge Library Information Services	CIIT	Vehari
2	Bashir Ahmed Zia	Chief Librarian	State Bank of Pakistan	Karachi
3	Dodo Khan	FOSS Developer	Aga Khan University	Karachi
4	Dr. Shahzad	Resident Surgeon	Holy Family Hospital	Islamabad
5	Hafeez ur Rehman	Library Assistant	PAEC	Islamabad
6	Ihtiram ul Haque	Project coordinator and IT support	Heartfile	Islamabad
7	Imran Chaudhry	Sr. Prog. Officer	COMSATS	Islamabad
8	Muhammad Javed	Chief Librarian	Shifa College of Medicine	Islamabad
9	Musa Khan	E-Resource Librarian	Aga Khan University	Karachi
10	Rafiq Awan	Chief Librarian	IUB	Bahawalpur
11	Salamat Ali	Reference Librarian	PIMS Library IH	Islamabad
12	Sher Afzal	University Librarian	Bahria University	Islamabad
13	Zahid Iqbal	Asst. Director	IIU	Islamabad
14	Zahid Iqbal	Asst. Manager	Riphah International University	Islamabad

Two sessions of this training were also transmitted via video conferencing live and participants from Nepal, Bangladesh and Maldive also benefited from this training.

We are thankful to all stakeholders of this training for organizing this successful event and making it beneficial for library professionals and computer professionals.

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Report: National Training on TLS

Posted on July 14, 2011 by admin

A two day National Training on Total Library Solution (TLS) was jointly organized by LISolutions® and PLWO at Hailey College of Commerce, University of the Punjab on July 9-10, 2011. A large number of professionals across the country participated in this training

The following professionals participated and make this even a successful event:

Sr.	Name	Designation	Organization	City
1	Rana Nasrullah	Assistant Librarian	The Islamia University of Bahawalpur	Bahawalpur
2	Muhammad Rafiq Awan	Chief Librarian	The Islamia University of Bahawalpur	Bahawalpur
3	Maqsood Ahmad	Database Administrator	The Islamia University of Bahawalpur	Bahawalpur
4	Misbah Bashir	Assistant Librarian	The University of Faisalabad	Faisalabad
5	Muhammad Imran Siddiqui	Librarian	University of Gujrat	Gujrat
6	Sajid Bashir	Programmer	University of Gujrat	Gujrat
7	Hameedullah Khattak	Librarian	AHK-NCRD	Islamabad
8	Sher Afzal	University Library Officer	Bahria University	Islamabad
9	Rauf Ahmed	Assistant Librarian	International Islamic University	Islamabad
10	Sheikh Imran Naeem	Computer Operator	International Islamic University	Islamabad
11	Arslan Farooq	Web Developer	LISolutions	Islamabad
12	Mirza Waseem Baig	PLO	NUST	Islamabad
13	Muzzammil Ahmad	Doc. Officer	Pakistan Institute of Development Economics	Islamabad
14	Bashir Ahmed	Pr. Computer Operator	PINSTECH	Islamabad
15	Zahid Iqbal	AM	Riphah International University	Islamabad
16	Ajaz Khan	Assistant Librarian	SPD, Islamabad	Islamabad
17	Zahid Hussain Sahito	Assistant Librarian	Mehran Univesity of Engineeging & Technology	Jamshoro
18	Abdul Majeed Nohri	Library Assistant	Mehran Univesity of Engineeging & Technology	Jamshoro
19	Javed Ahmed Abbasi	Library Assistant	Mehran Univesity of Engineering & Technology	Jamshoro
20	Shuja Ahmed	Librarian	KIBGE, University of Karachi	Karachi
21	Zia ur Rehman	Electronic Resource Librarian	State Bank of Pakistan	Karachi
22	Abida Hashmani	Assistant Manager	SUPARCO	Karachi
23	Shumaila Arzoo	Assistant Manager	SUPARCO	Karachi
24	Sadaf Rafiq	Librarian	CMH	Lahore
25	Farah Naz Cheema	Incharge Library	Fatima Jinah Medical College	Lahore
26	Fatima Ali	Intern	Hailey College of Commerce	Lahore
27	Asif Ali	Librarian	Hailey College of Commerce	Lahore
28	Shafiq Ahmad	Librarian	HCB&F, University of the Punjab	Lahore
29	Nuzba Kiran	Librarian	Institute for Professional Learning (IPL)	Lahore
30	Muhammad Riaz Shaheen	Librarian	Institute of Management Sciences	Lahore
31	Qaisar Sultana	Chief Librarian	Lahore School of Economics (LSE)	Lahore
32	Andleeb Nasib	Librarian	Lahore School of Economics (LSE)	Lahore
33	Sabeen Batool	Librarian	Lahore School of Economics (LSE)	Lahore
34	Saher Riaz	Librarian	Lahore School of Economics (LSE)	Lahore
35	Asif Munir	Sr. Librarian	LUMS	Lahore
36	Fauzia Shabnum	Librarian	Pakistan Navy War College	Lahore
37	Muhammad Hussain	Library Officer	Pakistan Navy War College	Lahore
38	Sehar Abbas	Assistant Librarian	Punjab Institute of Language, Art & Culture	Lahore
39	Faiza Bashir	Librarian	Queen Mary College, Lahore	Lahore
40	Niaz Wali Khan	Manager	SUPARCO	Lahore
41	Asif Bilal	Librarian		Lahore
42	Rahila Sultan			Lahore
43	Kamran Butt	Assistant Librarian	BZU	Multan
44	Muhammad Naushad Ghazanfar	Dy Librarian	BZU	Multan
45	Shahzada Nadeem Raza	Chief Librarian	Hailey College of Commerce, PU	Lahore
46	Muhammad Nadeem	Librarian	Govt. Girls Higher Sec. School	Multan
47	Hanif Awan	Librarian	Govt. Pilot Sec. School	Multan
48	Waqas Javed	Assistant Librarian	Nishter Medical College	Multan
49	Tahir Jan	Librarian	University of Peshawar	Peshawar
50	Ghulam Mustafa	Assistant Librarian	University of Sargodha	Sargodha
51	Muhammad Yousaf Kharal	District Librarian		Sheikhupura
52	Abida Hanif	Librarian	COMSATS Institute of Information Technology	Vehari

The training was conducted in interactive mod. It was a blend of both theoretical and practical methods of training. The following main topics were covered:

1- TLS: Introduction, Installation and introduction to its components
2- Koha ILS
3- DSpace
4- WordPress
5- Joomla
6- LimeSurvey

and many more…

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Trainers of this training, Dr. Muhammad Ramzan (Director LUMS Library), Mr. Ata ur Rehman (Free and Open Source Activist, LISolutions), Muhammad Shafiq Rana (Coordinator LISolutions) and Mr. Arslan Farooq (LISolutions) delivered lectures and provided hands-on training on the above mentioned Free and Open Source Software.

On demand of participants a demo for conversion of data from MS Excel / Access to MARC using MARCEdit was also presented. Participants found this very useful.

We are thankful to PLWO, PULISAA and Hailey College of Commerce for their support to make this training a successful event as partner.

The participants of this training decided to create a dynamic community of practice for TLS. For this purpose a Mailing List / LISTSERV has been created for the users of TLS.

Note: If you are user of TLS or intend to use TLS, you can join this mailing list at http://lisolutions.org/mailman/listinfo/tls_lisolutions.org

So many professionals contacted us to get TLS. For this purpose we have uploaded TLS DVD on SourceForge website. Please find whole TLS DVD at https://sourceforge.net/projects/totallibrarysol/files/TLSv.1.4/

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National Training on Total Library Solution

Posted on June 8, 2011 by admin

LISolutions and Pakistan Librarian Welfare Organization Jointly organizing “National Training on Total Library Solution (TLS)” [What is TLS?]

Title: National Training on Total Library Solution (TLS)
Date: Saturday-Sunday July 9-10, 2011
Venue: Computer Lab, Hailey College of Commerce, University of the Punjab, Lahore
Organizers: LISolutions and Pakistan Librarian Welfare Organization (PLWO)
Partners: PULISAA and Hailey College of Commerce
Training Team:

Mr. Ata ur Rehman (ata.rehman@gmail.com)
Mr. M. Shafiq Rana (cyberarianpk@gmail.com)

Organizing Coordinators:

Mr. Muhammad Asif Munir
masifmunir@gmail.com
Tel. 03334348494
Mr. Nadeem Raza
nadeemaza4u@yahoo.com
Tel. 0321-8141615

Registration Fee:

For Members of LISolutions, PLWO or PULISAA: PKR 3000/-
For Non-Members: PKR 5000/-

Fee includes:
TLS DVD, TLS Membership, Lunch, Tea, Training Kit, Certificate

More Details

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Total Library Solution (TLS) with Koha 3.4 Free of Cost : a gift to PAK LIS Community

Posted on May 6, 2011 by admin

On behalf of LISolutions, I feel immense pleasure to share with all the LIS community that LISolutions has brought a revolutionary product for the community with the title “Total Library Solution (TLS)”. This product is a LIVE as well as Installation DVD which can be used by all the users who do not have the know how of Linux and can get the benefits of Free and Open Source Software in the field of LIS.

TLS is customized solution for the following (Installed, Pre-configured, Customized) software:

1- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server (A secure Server-Based installation)
2- Koha 3.4 ILS (Latest version, customized for local needs of LIS community of Pakistan)
3- DSpace (A favorite Digital Library Suite)
4- Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL)
5- Joomla (Award Winning Content Management System)
6- WordPress (Blogging / Content Management System)
7- Open Harvesting System (OHS)

and many more…

This DVD can be installed without installing on your computer. Just put DVD in DVD ROM and restart your computer and select LIVE CD/DVD option and all the above software will be available immediately without any configuration.

To install all the above Free and Open Source applications, just select install option and a wizard will start to help you install on your computer.

This DVD will be available soon on LISolutions and Sourceforge website.

Note: Please join LISolutions LISTSERV for more details on Free and Open Source Software news and updates at: http://lisolutions.org/mailman/listinfo/lis-support_lisolutions.org

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Report: Training on “Open Source Tools for Digital Archives”

Posted on March 13, 2011 by admin

Bahria University Islamabad and LISolutions jointly organized a One Day Training on “Open Source Tools and Techniques for Digital Archives” at Bahria University, Islamabad on Saturday March 12, 2011 (09:00 AM to 6:00 PM). More than 25 (Twenty Five) library professionals participated in this training.

Training was started with the name of Almighty Allah with a simple but graceful inauguration ceremony. Mr. Ata ur Rehman (From LISolutions) was the lead trainer. While the other trainers were Mr. Sher Afzal (Bahria University, Islamabad) and Mr. M. Shafiq Rana (SECP, Islamabad).

After the inauguration, Mr. Shafiq Rana gave an impressive presentation on “Introduction to digital archives: GSDL, DSpace, EPrints and Copyright”. He presented a comparison between different Open Source tools for managing digital archives.

Second session was on “Cataloging of digital contents and Metadata”. This lecture was presented by Mr. Sher Afzal. He presented the difference between the cataloging of hard form bibliographic material and digital material. Also different types of Metadata, METS, Dublin Core, Qualified Dublin Core and AGLS was the main focus of this presentation.

Last two sessions were conducted by Mr. Ata ur Rehman (Open Source Tools for Digital Contents and Step-by-step guide about how to create digital archive) followed by practical session in which participants got hands on training about the installation of Open Source Software (GSDL) and its basic configuration.

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At the end of this event, participants also presented their views about this learning activity. Professionals found this training very effective and useful. In closing session of this training, certificates were distributed among the participants.

Presentation Slides can be downloaded here

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One Day Training on “Open Source Tools & Techniques for Digital Archives”

Posted on March 1, 2011 by admin

LISoultions and Bahria University Islamabad jointly organizing a One Day Training on “Open Source Tools & Techniques for Digital Archives”. Details are as under:

Title: One Day Training on “Open Source Tools & Techniques for Digital Archives”
Venue: Bahria University Islamabad
Date: March 12, 2011 (09:00 AM – 05:00 PM)

Contents of Training

Introduction to Digital Archives
Metadata for cataloging of digital collections
OCR
Copyright and Plagiarism
Creating Digital Archives
Interoperability
Introduction to institutional repositories

Who should attend?

Archivists and Librarians, LIS students, Beginners and intermediate level learner of Digital Libraries

LIS Professionals working in digital environment who are interested in managing their digital content using some Open Source Software (Greenstone, Digital Library Software, DSpace, EPrints, etc)

Training Outcome.

After successful completion of this training will learn:

Introduction/basics of digital archives/digital libraries and repositories

International standards of digital libraries

Alternatives available for digital library management software in Free and Open Source Category

Installation, configuration, and customization of Free and Open Source Software for management of their digital collections

The concept of copyright and plagiarism and our role and responsibility as information professionals

Training Fee

PULISAA, PLA or PLC Members – PKR 600/- per participant
Non Members – PKR 1000/- per participant
(Fee includes tea, lunch and certificate)

Trainers:

Ata ur Rehman
(Lead Trainer for GSDL, Koha & other FOSS in Pakistan)
Mr. Sher Afzal (Librarian, Bahria University)
M. Shafiq Rana (Trainer and Coordinator LISolutions)

For further information:

Mr. Sher Afzal
0333-552 1321
librarian@bahria.edu.pk

For Registration Click Here

Note: Training Flyer can be downloaded here

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Training Need Assessment (TNA) for Library Software

Posted on January 25, 2011 by admin

By: Muhammad Shafiq Rana

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A talk on “Free and Open Source Alternatives for Library Operations”

Posted on January 17, 2011 by admin

Punjab University Library and Information Science Alumnae Association (PULISAA) and Main Library, University of the Punjab organized a talk on “Free and Open Source Alternatives for Library Operations” at Main Library, University of the Punjab on January 15, 2011.

Group Photo

Mr. Muhammad Shafiq Rana, President PULISAA, in his opening speech introduced the topic and its importance for library professionals. He also gave the token of thanks to Ch. Muhammad Hanif, Chief Librarian, PU Main Library and Co-organizer of this talk for extending his support for this event and the efforts of PULISAA team for this talk.

Mr. Ata ur Rehman, Coordinator LISolutions, was the facilitator on the above mentioned talk. Prof. Dr. Kanwal Amin, Patron PULISAA and Chair Person, Department of Library and Information Science, University of the Punjab was the Chief Guest. Prof. Dr. Mumtaz Ali and Ch. Muhmmad Hanif, Chief Librarian, PU was the guest of honor.

More than fifty library professionals from Lahore and other cities participated in this event. The slides of the talk can be found here:

Talk Slides

During this talk, an index to a few Free and Open Source Software Alternatives was also distributed. Copy of this document can be obtained here:

FOSS Alternatives Index

This talk with a Question /Answers session was about one and half hour duration.

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Copy Cataloging in Koha From National Library of Pakistan and LUMS

Posted on January 11, 2011 by admin

By: Ata ur Rehman (ata.rehman@gmail.com)

A simple step by step guide for importing MARC records from National Library of Pakistan and LUMS Library, Lahore.

Step 1

Open the Librarian Interface of Koha 3 and click on the Koha Administration Link as shown below.

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Posted in koha, Support | Tagged Copy Cataloging, Koha 3, Support, Z39.50 | 5 Comments

3 Days Training of “Koha 3 Library System” at UOS, Sargodha

Posted on November 2, 2010 by admin

A three days training on Free and Open Source Software, Koha was organized by LISolutions on October 28-30, 2010 at Central Library, University of Sargodha (UOS).

It was a customized training specially designed for the library professionals of UOS. The following professionals participated in this training:

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Fazil Khan – Chief Librarian, Head of Deptt. (LIS)
Mian Muhammad Aslam – Deputy Librarian, Incharge Project (Library Automation)
Muhammad Ahmad Shah – Librarian
Mr. Nasir Ahmad – Librarian
Mr. Raja Ghulam Mustafa – Assistant Librarian
Mr. Zahid – Network Department UOS
Mr. Noor Mustafa – Lecturer
Ms. Sumera Bano – Internee
Ms. Aisha Shafi – Internee
Ms. Saima Rohi – Internee

Mr. Ata ur Rehman was the Lead Trainer and Muhammad Shafiq Rana, Coordinator (Trainings) played his role as C0-Trainer. The training was conducted in a learning environment. Participants took part in all the modules of training.

In concluding session, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Fazil distributed the certificates to participants