[Koha] Koha workshop report held at DBJ College, Chiplun, Maharashtra, India from 15th-16th October 2010

[Sunita Barve]

Dear all,

We are happy to inform you about the recent workshop which was held at DBJ
College, Chiplun, Dist. Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India, from 15-16th Oct.
2010 on Koha Library Automation Software. The workshop was one of the first
workshop held in rural part of Maharashtra where participants could get a
chance to directly work on Koha. Around 50 participants attended the
workshop. The participants were mainly from School/College and Public
Libraries where they are in search for a good library automation software
with international standards. We used latest koha-3.02.00 release candidate
version which was released on 7th Oct 2010 (Thanks to Galen for recommending
this version to use for the workshop) for the workshop and it worked
successfully.

Prof. Prasad, DRTC, Bangalore has created a LiveCD with Koha-3.02.00 &
DSpace-1.6.2 integrated with Ubuntu 10.4.1 LTS version. This LiveCD was
distributed to all the participants. This LiveCD will be uploaded to
Sourceforge soon. The Librarian, Shri. Sudhir More, DBJ College, Chiplun
provided all the required infrastructure and support for the workshop. Shri.
Koustubha Kale, Anant Corporation, Thane, INDIA, Dr. Sunita Barve, NCRA,
Pune, INDIA & Dr. Nanaji Shewale, GIPE, Pune, INDIA worked as a resource
person for the workshop & the following topics were covered during the
workshop:-

Introduction to Open Source Software
Introduction to Linux Operating System (Ubuntu)
General Koha Introduction
Koha installation with LiveCD
Koha Global System Preferences
Koha Acquisition, Circulation, Patrons, Cataloging Modules
Koha migrating records from either excel/microsoft access or txt files using
Marcedit
Koha backup/restore/upgrade
Koha Barcode printing, Koha generating various reports from Koha

reg,

Sunita Barve, Ph. D.
SIRC-In-Charge
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
Post Bag No. 3, Pune Univ. Campus
Pune 411 007, INDIA
Phone : Office : 91-20-25719211
            Residence : 91-020- 24470022
            Mobile: 9922753827
Email : sunitab at ncra.tifr.res.in ; sunitabarve at gmail.com
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