 Good morning to all of you Welcome to this launch of train 10,000 librarians program under the national virtual library of India project that isn't short and we ally of ministry of culture You all know that Under the national mission on libraries, which was launched in February 2014 one of the major components of the mission was the Setting up of national virtual library of India The other three components that were there one of them was capacity building of librarians. The third was Conducting survey of public libraries and fourth one was setting up model libraries in states and districts Capacity building is one of the major components in fact and already the Raja Ramon library foundation. They have been Conducting regular bases face-to-face workshops in different centers to train the public librarians Now this is a Special moment in fact when we are going to launch a program in which actually we will be at a time able to address Large number of librarians in a go This is a one-day program and it will be a whole day program and the VR starting with Basic module that is on Koha as you all know Koha is an integrated library management system And it's very important when the libraries are going for automating their libraries They need to know the basics of Koha So you will be actually trained throughout the day on how to use the Koha software So we are pleased to have with us in our studio the vice-chancellor of Indra Gandhi National Open University Professor Nageshwar Raoji. I welcome you sir for this session. I We also have with us Professor Kannan Maudhulia The main PI of the NVLI project from IIT Bombay So to start with I will first request Professor Kannan to tell us about the workshop and how we plan to go about the whole day Thank you, Professor Kanjilal I'm happy to address you again. We had a brief interaction before this program I'm happy that there are 100 remote centers connected and More than 2,000 people. I think it's about 2300 as of yesterday There were 2300 people and there are likely to be some spot registrations also I'm happy that close to 2,500 people are listening to this that we can make this program available to So many people Let me give a brief background to this method There are two or three Types of technologies that are being used in this workshop. One is The usage of this platform called T10 KT train 10,000 teachers platform That is being modified here as T10 K L train 10,000 librarians. So what is this T10 KT? So this was the program started by The National Mission on Education through ICT MHRD Government of India It started as train 1000 teachers. This program started in 2009 And at the time we had about 30 40 centers and The program was very successful Then the MHRD The mission enemy ICT encouraged the PI of the project my colleague professor Fatak to Convert it into a 10,000 teacher training program and So it became T10 KT through that program a Large number of college teachers were trained Mainly on engineering subjects Something like 1,80,000 teachers were trained through that program the target of the that project was to train one and a half like teachers so 1.8 like teachers got trained each one undergoing two-week long program typically Course that is done for a whole semester in an engineering college for example in IIT IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur were partners in that T10 KT an Important technology used in that was also developed as a part of That project. It is called a view it was developed by Amrita University and Amrita University Developed the software a view which has been which is now a great software for two-way audio video interaction it allows 100 remote centers to connect with each other See each other's discussion The way it is done is there is a teacher note who At which the expert answers a question raised from One of the remote centers wherein somebody might have a question These two namely the person who's asking the question and the person who's answering the question Are seen on the video for everybody to see one of the problems in synchronous Education by the way, this is synchronous education because whatever I speak all of you are listening to me simultaneously One of the problems in scaling up synchronous education is what if there are a lot of questions? Fortunately if only everybody can see the discussion on a particular question Then all such doubts amongst all such participants get resolved So you don't have to repeat them again and again. So that is a way to scale up So this is one technology Which is a I would say reasonably perfected technology It requires bandwidth If you have two Mbps connectivity you can connect The software is open source software Thanks to government funding Our taxpayers money is used so you can download you say thanks We started with as I said 20 30 remote centers now there are about 550 remote centers There are 100 remote centers that join today from 17 states There would have been another perhaps six or one remote centers had it not been for Tithili, okay, because of that some centers in Marisa cannot join spite of that we have a Good enrollment So this is one of the technologies we are using I would say this technology has made India small country Anybody from any remote center any part of the any corner of the country If only they have two Mbps connection You would see my presentation and I your question as if we are talking from next door as if we are neighbors, right? So the distances don't matter The reception is going to be the same Whether it is going to be in the remote center in Delhi because I'm I'm a digno Or it is going to be in Trivandrum for example Probably the farthest place from here or column for example the other benefit it has produced is It has empowered half our population In many of our short-term training programs, especially in engineering colleges We find mostly males attending because it is difficult for The head of the family namely the mother To come to IIT Bombay or to any other course For one week or two weeks and be away from their family This method allows them to complete all their work in the morning go to the nearest center Participate in the days program and go back to their families in the evening. I Would say that this method empowered Half the population We would like to make this available also to librarians So this is one technology. We are talking about namely synchronous technology the software the method of conducting web pages Conducting a training program for coordinators and so on. I would call all of this as one technology the other technology we are using in this workshop is Something called spoken tutorial. I'm the PA of that project It was also funded by the National Mission on Education through ICT and HRD We are happy to see to government To ministries working together to make this available The infrastructure we are talking about in all engineering colleges and so on on already Created through NME ICT Now the NBLI project is making it available for librarian training. We have created 10-minute long spoken tutorials on Koho. We have a total of 24 spoken tutorials Yes spoken tutorial is typically of 10-minute duration It started with IT training like C programming Java programming and so on and so forth Then it went to simulation topics It went to Sylab Python and so on now we are using the same method for Koho training A spoken tutorial is of typically of 10-minute duration Guaranteed for self-learning We guarantee it because we write a script for every tutorial It is not extempore like the way I'm talking now for every tutorial we write the script and We ask a beginner to go through it and certify that they can understand every step If any step is not understandable we return the script for improvement The script goes back and forth. I would say maybe about 10 times and Finally when it comes it's perfected then it is converted into a video through screencast It's a low-cost technology All you need is a laptop, that's all you need The 10,000 rupee laptop that we have launched is sufficient to record Using software called Kazam. You can also edit it using a software called Ked and live So you don't need studios. You don't need cameraman So it is created for self-learning then we dub this spoken part into all 22 languages We have a total of about I Think we just crossed about 1,000 tutorials in English and then including dubbing We are close to 10,000 tutorials. So it is available in every one of our 22 languages For example, even in Sanskrit we have close to 200 tutorials that in Hindi Gujarati Marathi Bengali Tamil and so on we have More than 600 tutorials already dubbed these cover Important topics. So we have made the same Technology available here The third and equally important Aspect of this methodology is that you can use it offline. It is possible to download an entire thing entire package for example One could say that I want see tutorials in English, Hindi and let's say Punjabi download it Or you might say I have Koha. I will download it also in English The whole thing will come as a zip file. You can take your own time to download it Once it is available, it can be unzipped Copied into every machine and the internet is not required. For example today, that's what is going to be done In every machine of yours That zip file is already unzipped and made available and the Koha software is also installed So in fact, you will open both of them side by side That is you will open the Koha software on one side on the other side. You will open the spoken tutorial You will listen to one command at a time. You will open one tutorial at a time in that tutorial You will open one command at a time. You will practice it if it goes if it works Go to the next command. If not rewind listen to it try it again It will always work because it is created for self-learning So you will go through the whole thing. So this is the second Technology spoken tutorial created for self-learning all the people who are conducting this workshop In your center, there are two people We conducted a coordinated training workshop for all of them That is in every one of the hundred remote centers. There are two experts one expert is the librarian Who knows how to Learn through Koha spoken tutorials He or she has already undergone the training at IIT Bombay in a coordinator workshop that we conducted on 29th of September There is also a System administrator from your remote center who also came to IIT Bombay on 29th of September To undergo training on how to install Koha Okay, so they already know that subsequent to 29th that is between 29th and today our team worked day and night and created new spoken tutorials on Koha installation Koha is a very elaborate software. You hear about it. I'm not an expert Professor Uma Kanjiral already mentioned Professor Manjunayaka the librarian at IIT Bombay also explained to you at the beginning During the interaction session It's an amazing software So it requires quite a bit of effort to install it Okay, and we have simplified it. It is all explained through spoken tutorials It is important for all of you to download the latest version Please do not rely on the Content that you took on 29th of September because subsequent to that we improved it As a matter of fact, I would say this is the fourth time. We are using these tutorials We conducted a workshop today workshop attack workshop wherein we tried some of our spoken tutorials Then we had one day pilot workshop to check whether our spoken tutorials are okay We became confident then we conducted a coordinator workshop and Then now we have E10kl. It is called train 10,000 librarians although There are not 10,000 librarians today. I'm pretty sure that we will reach that number There are more than 1,000,000 libraries in India including public libraries possibly even to lack libraries It is the desire of this Mission of this project National Virtual Library of India to Get all of you on board And one of the objectives of this mission also is to convert at least some select Libraries, maybe district level libraries public libraries as centers of learning So the mission is national mission on libraries is committed to that our project is going to Help achieve that and the ministry is very keen on that ministry of culture And so we would like to acknowledge all the help. I would also take this opportunity to Express my sincere. Thanks to Ignu and the honorable vice-chancellor for being Present personally to inaugurate this I would like to hand over the mic and I want to express my sincere gratitude For giving this opportunity At this amazing place Ignu. Thank you Thank you, Professor Kannan In fact, he has given a detail exactly how the project works and how this tutorials in future also We will be conducting in fact. So now to start with I think it's Time for requesting our honorable vice-chancellor to launch the program and give his inaugural address. Yes So, Kannan, IIT Bombay Maaji My dear friends It's a great day for all of us When we are trying to have this Koa workshop through this Online mode when Professor Kannan was speaking to all of you He has clearly elaborated the way through which we can use the spoken tutorial as Well as the Koa and if both the things they are being put In use in proper perspective you will get better results Till now IIT Bombay was very very popular With respect to the spoken tutorial project and we have seen that It has benefited most of us all over the country now with this Koa Our librarians the people who are working in the library they will be benefited Much more The way through which they wanted to have this sort of training It is also cost-effective Because if you see that at the time of registrations, we have to pay very very nominal sum And I think today also we have to pay some amount, but that is also very very nominal and back to from your place You can have this tutorial and you will get the best possible results one thing which has told to all of you is that The Material which is available to all of you. It is being updated on day-to-day basis Because the details which are available on 29th they've been revised four times till this Particular day So this sort of application you will find in this particular training program So that is also an advantage cost-effective you will get updated material and the best possible experts are also available That is the thing through which we are getting this Koa workshop and Reach is also very very wide. We are reaching to distant places distant people and that too One at a time because from here itself because we are reaching to so many people And that is why he has already told you that the Ministry of Culture has named it as the Koa T10kl T10kl So now this also helps us to understand He has also referred to the Amritha's AVU. That is also giving us good results now. Now, these are the newer ways to reach the distant learners and And this workshop will also help you to Look at the speaker but the speaker He can speak to you most comfortably even if you are a pseudo listener He cannot get you comfortably because he's not seeing all of you in that Shape wherein we kind we can see face to face when we interact with the Learners, we see that some of them are the pseudo learners and thereby our Speech it may be distracted. It will not be here when we go for this sort of workshop Where in we can interact with all with the same ease that the same comfort in which we want to present our Contents This is a great day for the Ministry of Culture Great day for IIT Bombay and great day for Ignu also because we all are Involved in this process and again I compliment all of you for taking this benefit of Having this sort of interaction and this learning this may help you to Look at your library in a much better way because this Koa software. It is freely available It can be customized also and you can get better results. So with these few words I Announce the launch of this Training workshop For all of you. Thank you very much. Thank you Thank you, sir. So press a condom would like to say something I would like to formally Acknowledge the partners in the NBLI project. There are three partners CDAC is the partner that implements the software Ignu is the partner which takes care of the data data curation IIT Bombay is the coordinating partner So we are very happy that we are able to Put together and make available All the resources that we have amongst ourselves to this important project The second thing that I want to point out is this The remote center the methodology that we are using is actually available for a lot of other things Although we started with engineering. We had conducted courses on environment and you know things like that now We are doing courses called College to corporate Even skills teaching skills communication skills and things like that So which is one of the things that when the platform was established the funding agency said that make sure it is available for Other purposes also it is being used similarly the generality of Sparking tutorials. We are now using sparking tutorials in the general area of health and nutrition one of the very important areas that we are working on is Training mothers on breastfeeding. We have a series of tutorials. We are also creating tutorials on Schools school level software So this mother tongue dubbing is going to be especially helpful to children who study in vernacular schools I understand because I studied in one such school So I just wanted to thank all the agencies I missed out some of the things because we had some discussion prior to this and I mentioned some of these So I thought I would repeat it now. Thank you. Thank you, Prasak Anand so for the vote of thanks normal food mood of thanks I would at First of all, I would like to thank our Honorable Vice Chancellor for his support and encouragement I think without that it would not have been possible at all and We have been actually working even for the Enveil I project under his guidance. So thank you, sir For all the support that we are getting The main lead in this workshop was a cannon mother earlier here He has elaborated exactly how we are going to go about and this is going to be a revolution In fact when we talk about the library is training I think no one thought about in such a large scheme. So this is going to revolutionize the whole process in fact and I'm also happy to inform you that with this workshop We are also becoming one of the remote centers of the project. So I would like to thank Prasak Kannan Mott earlier and all his team members some of them have come here and some some of them are available already online in the IT Bombay in fact So all the support they have been giving and we have been actually Collaborating with them and setting up the studio and other things. So thanks a lot for that support that you have provided us The function is being conducted from our electronic media production center. So I would like to thank the director of the center Shri Ravikandaji for the studio facility as well as the support electronic media support that has been provided by his team The whole team of EMPC And we have I mean I'm making it successful. So thanks a lot for the whole team I would like to thank the NVLI team from Igno In fact who have been supporting me and setting up the workshop in fact and Well, all kinds of support that I have been getting from them and last but not the least all the Participants available in the studio as well as remotely in other I think 104 centers You mentioned so I welcome you all again and also a big thanks to for being Registering for this workshop and being a partner in this whole process. Thank you. Thank you. So we will take a break now for tea Thank you. Thank you