prospectus.pdfDear Sir / Madam,

Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute is an academic film school under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. It imparts postgraduate specialization programmes for both the film wing and electronic and digital medium (Television course). In addition to the two wings of film and television, the institute has also started few short-term courses / training programme in different disciplines including Library Automation.

In view of the above, the Institute’s Library and Information Department is organizing ‘Hands on Workshop on Library Discovery System (LDS)’ (4-days Programme) from 19th December to 22nd December 2019 at Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata (URL of the workshop: www.srfti.ac.in).

The main objective of the workshop is to create awareness among professionals about open source technology & its application in library and to provide library clients with a universal search and discovery experience and thereby saving them in running from pillar to post in search of relevant resources.
Theme of the workshop

The main theme of the workshop is to provide theoretical foundation as well as hands-on training keeping in mind the rapid development in the domain of library automation and digitization.

The following topics will be covered:

• Koha – advanced cataloguing, OAI/PMH based data exposure, ILSDI based content negotiation
• Digital Media Archiving – Resource exposure from DSpace, Omeka, Islandora and Greenstone
• Discovery interface – Integration of resources from different information blocks in VuFind

Experts and Resource Persons

The training lectures/practical/demonstration will be delivered by the eminent faculty and professionals from reputed institutes/universities/Govt. of India organizations and also from National Digital Library of India (NDL), IIT Kharagpur like:

Dr. P. S. Mukhopadhyay
Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani

Mr. J. K. Pal
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Mr. S. Banerjee
Principal Project Officer - Systems
National Digital Library of India, IIT Kharagpur

The intensive and advanced workshop on Library and Information Science will help him/her to earn-
 API score as per UGC guidelines.
 Promotional requirement as per DOPT Guidelines

May I request you to kindly attend or, depute library professionals and/or professionals who manage the IT function of your library information system for participation in this Hands on Workshop on Library Discovery System (LDS) Programme. The names and contact details of the nominated persons for attending the workshop may please be sent to the undersigned within 10.12.2019. For detailed information and registration please click on: http://srfti.ac.in/?p=9542

Thanking you

Dr. Sanjukta Ray Pahari
Library and Information Officer, SRFTI
Organising Secretary and Course Coordinator,
Hands on Workshop on Library Discovery System (LDS),2019
Ph-9432553297
Enclo.: Brochure of Hands on Workshop on Library Discovery System (LDS)