TCLN Webinar: 'Demystifying Open Source Library Management Software || 21/08/20
Do you have questions about digital library management tools like Koha? Are you wondering if it's a good fit for your library? How do you get started? What can tools like Koha tell you about your members, library trends & book collection?
These are some of the questions we hope to address with our webinar featuring Indranil Das Gupta & Monika Yadav.
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Indranil has been a Free and Open Source software user for nearly two and half decades. He co-founded the Indian Linux User Group – Kolkata Chapter in 1999. He has been an active member of several global open-source projects including OpenOffice.Org, Bengali Localization project, Wikimedia Foundation, GNOME Desktop, Koha Integrated Library Software, DSpace — the Digital Library Project etc. He setup the first University Central Library in India to run on Koha ILS back in 2003 and has since then been an active member of the global Koha community. He is presently the CEO of L2C2 Technologies which pioneered the concept of cloud hosted Koha ILS service for libraries in eastern India. He is currently a top Asian contributor in the Koha project where he has served as an elected member of Koha's release team.
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Monika Yadav is the head librarian at The Community Library Project-South Extension branch in Delhi. She brings her experience working in a community library with over ~2000 members and will take us through the basics of running Koha software, from member databases to book catalogues and more.
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