Training team was as under:

1. Mr. Ata ur Rehman (LISolutions) – Lead Trainer
2. Mr. Mohan Raj Pradhan (DlnetSA Nepal) – Trainer
3. 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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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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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.

Step 2

Click on Z39.50 Client Targets Link as shown below.

Step 3

Now click on the button “New Z39.50 Server”, as shown in the picture below

Step 4

A form with the following text boxes will be opened. Fill the form with values shown below for National Library of Pakistan Z39.50 server:

Z39.50 Server: NLP-Pakistan

Hostname: 202.83.163.75

Port: 1111

Database: Default

Syntaxt: MARC21/USMARC

Encoding: UTF-8

Then click the Save button to save the values.

Step 5

Now you can see an entry of NLP in the list of Z39.50 Servers.  To add another Z39.50 server, press “New Z39.50 Server” as shown in red color

Step 6

Repeat the step 4 for LUMS Library Z39.50 server with the following values:

Z39.50 Server: LUMS-Pakistan

Hostname: 203.128.0.3

Port: 1111

Database: Default

Syntaxt: MARC21/USMARC

Encoding: UTF-8

Then click the Save button to save the values.

Press OK button

The form now shows the both library z39.50 server in list as shown below:

Step 7

Now click the Home link or Koha Logo to go on the home screen.

Click on Cataloging Link to start the cataloging process.

A new page will be opened with a button Z39.50 Search as shown below.  Press this button.

A new form will be opened as shown below.  In this form, you can put the search string.  Different search options (fields) are available.

We have used title field with پاکستان as the search term as shown below. Press search button and be sure to select your target server (NLP-Pakistan in this case)

A list of bibliographic records can be seen in the next screen.  These results have be grabbed from NLP-Pakistan as shown in Server column of the following screen. Click on import button on the last column of the record which you want to import into your catalog.

This record will be imported into the data entry form of Koha.  This record now can be modified/edited according to the needs of your library

After editing/modification, press the Save button to enter the item information/holding information for this bibliographic record.

Now this process can be repeated to search results from LUMS library as shown below with the search term “اسلام” in title field. This process is shown in the following pictures.

The following search results have been received from LUMS-Pakistan library.  The desired records can be imported by clicking the Import link

After importing the records into Koha data entry form, the record can be verified, edited/modified before saving this bibliographic record into Koha

Note:

1- If you find any difficulty in this procedure, please feel free to contact LISolutions support team.

2- We acknowledge the efforts of NLP and LUMS team to make the Z39.50 public in the interest of library professionals.

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