----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashok S" <[email protected]> To: undisclosed-recipients, : Subject: Fwd: OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES IN LIBRARIES Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:13:13 +0530
Dear All As you know Cochin University of Science and Technology is organising UGC sponsored National Conference on 24th and 25th of November 2009. Theme of the conference is “ROLE OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES IN LIBRARIES”. Parallely An international workshop on UNESCO’s *open source ‘Greenstone’ digital library software* will be held at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIM-K) from November 23 to 28. IIM-K Director Debashis Chatterjee will inaugurate. V. Rajaraman, popularly known as the father of computer science in India, will deliver the keynote address. Around thirty participants, including those from Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, will be admitted. There is some clash of timings, even though the locations are different. Anyhow these events are welcome and should be utilized by us to persuade the strong grassroots library movement in Kerala to switchover to modern and open source ways of managing Knowledge , both bookish and digital. In this context I request all to approach the office bearers and library activists they know, and persuade them to adapt FOSS. Our intervention will be necessary as most library activists unfortunately are unaware of the fine nuances of IT and software. Please comment Thanking you -- Ashok _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
