Aim of the Workshop
To provide participants with practical knowledge and hands-on skills in implementing, configuring and managing Koha and DSpace, enabling them to develop and maintain automated libraries and institutional digital repositories using open-source technologies.
Objectives
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand the concepts and architecture of open-source library software.
- Understand the structure and major modules of Koha.
- Perform basic Koha installation, configuration and administration.
- Configure library parameters, users, circulation and OPAC.
- Create bibliographic, authority and item records using MARC21.
- Understand acquisitions, serials, cataloguing and circulation workflows.
- Generate useful library reports and statistics.
- Understand the architecture and components of DSpace.
- Install/configure a basic DSpace repository environment.
- Create communities, collections and metadata.
- Deposit, manage and retrieve digital documents.
- Understand Dublin Core metadata and repository workflows.
- Configure basic discovery, submission and administrative functions.
- Understand practical applications of Koha and DSpace in academic libraries.
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