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<DIV>Maravilloso Egbert!!!!</DIV>
<DIV>Una gran noticia.</DIV>
<DIV>Eres Genial!!!</DIV>
<DIV>Abrazos</DIV>
<DIV>M.M.MacLean</DIV>
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<A title=girirs_75@yahoo.co.in href="mailto:girirs_75@yahoo.co.in">Rabisankar
Giri</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=isis-users@iccisis.org
href="mailto:isis-users@iccisis.org">isis-users@iccisis.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 02, 2011 5:21
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Isis-users] First workshop on
ABCD in India/Asia</DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The national
workshop on ABCD has recently been held on May 26-29, 2011 in Birla
Institute of Management and Technology (BIMTECH), <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
This is the first workshop on ABCD in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> even in <st1:place
w:st="on">Asia</st1:place>. The program is jointly organized by BIMTECH
and Rangnathan Society for Social Welfare &Library Development
(RSSWLD), supported by UNESCO and Indian Council for Social Science
Research (ICSSR). BIMTECH with RSSWLD has been organizing a series of
knowledge building program on library science based on FLOSS philosophy.
This is the fifth in this series. The previous workshops were on the two
most popular FLOSS based ILMS [i.e., KOHA and
NewGenlib(</FONT><CITE><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN" lang=EN-IN><A
href="http://www.verussolutions.biz/">www.verussolutions.biz</A><FONT
color=#0e774a>) ]</FONT></SPAN></CITE><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
lang=EN-IN> </SPAN>in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>.</FONT></FONT>
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class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">This workshop on
ABCD is unique in following sense</FONT>
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class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">About 500
professionals were applied for participating in this workshop. This
might be the first workshop for which such a huge application came.
Only 50 participants were selected based on their prior experience
with ILMS. All the participants were using either any ILMS software or
<st1:place w:st="on">ISIS</st1:place> family software.</FONT></LI></OL>
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class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> has 28 states and
seven union territories (UT). Almost from each state and UT, at least
one professional took participation in this workshop. Besides,
professionals from neighboring countries of <st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> like <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Sri Lanka</st1:country-region>, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Bangladesh</st1:country-region></st1:place>, Nepal Bhutan
have also participated in this workshop.</FONT></FONT></LI></OL>
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class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">The resource
person for the workshop was none other than Prof. Egbert deSmet,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of
Antwerp</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place>, one of the
developers of ABCD. </FONT></LI></OL>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"
class=MsoNormal align=left><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Though in
India, many of our librarian are using FLOSS based ILMS for managing
activities and services of Library (e.g., </FONT><A
href="http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/11555"><FONT
color=#800080 size=3
face="Times New Roman">http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/11555</FONT></A><FONT
size=3 face="Times New Roman"> , </FONT><A
href="http://59.176.17.111/"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">http://59.176.17.111/</FONT></A><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"> , </FONT><A
href="http://www.granthalaya.org/"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">http://www.granthalaya.org/</FONT></A><FONT
size=3 face="Times New Roman"> ) but, few of us are aware about the
development and possibilities with ABCD. Only a very few from <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> have made some progress
with ABCD ( </FONT><A
href="http://124.124.221.16/site/php/index.php"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">http://124.124.221.16/site/php/index.php</FONT></A><FONT
size=3 face="Times New Roman"> ). </FONT>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Unless we attended
Prof. Egbert’s workshop in BIMTECH, we could hardly know that we, the
library professional can be truly empowered with the enormous
possibilities with ABCD. In a real sense ABCD is truly open. In the four
days workshop, he taught us every module of ABCD and gave us practical
hands on experience with ABCD.</FONT>
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class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">More than this, he
has created a wave among the participants with the idea of
innovativeness and unlimited possibilities of ABCD. As <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">OSS</st1:City></st1:place> evangelist,
many of us are coping everyday with the issue of data conversion because
of variegated underlying structure of different ILMS databases. When he
showed us the power mx command and ABCD in data conversion, we were
really spell bound.</FONT>
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class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">In simple, Prof.
Egbert has just thrown us into a FLOSS knowledge ocean<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>giving only a tiny but powerful
ABCD to tide over by igniting our mind. Many of us thus, have already
started exploring the ABCD and need the extended collaboration form the
ABCD forum family. We also need many of such workshops in different
parts of India by experts on ABCD at some gap to contribute
positively to the ABCD family.</FONT>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"
class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">ABCD also needs to
be fully UNICODE compliant at earliest to make it more popular in
<st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> as the other
two popular ILMS in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> namely KOHA and
NewGenLib have already did that.</FONT>
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style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,127); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Rabishankar
Giri</SPAN><BR style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,127); FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,127); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Indira Gandhi Institute
of Technology</SPAN>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,127); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">GGS
Indraprastha University</SPAN>
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href="http://www.ipu.ac.in/igit/about.html">http://www.ipu.ac.in/igit/about.html</A></SPAN>
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