 Good morning everybody and welcome to this short workshop. I'm very happy that Mr. Ramadevi has been able to join us and Manjanaika and Dr. Parve will be conducting this. Dr. Das is engaged in another important cultural activity I think there is a children's competition going on in the Convocation Hall So he said he will join us very shortly But we thought we will not delay the procedure. I have something very little to say This is actually the beginning of a series of national workshops Which will be conducting using our T10KT methodology where we train 10,000 people at a time We have to train more than one lakh library staff across the country within one year In use of COHA. Ministry of Culture has standardised COHA as the Software because there is no software license cost. One of the biggest advantages is we don't pay license cost And plus there is a uniformity across the country Now we have Our system already in place which we have built over lots of years But conversion to COHA is under active consideration of the committee and the committee will take its decision After that it may usually take five to six months to convert all our metadata into COHA format But more importantly once we do that Our library content would then become visible across the country Because of the coordinated activity that is happening under the NBLI project As I told you the national Virtual library of India is being built and IIT Bombay is the coordinating issue So the software is being developed by CDAC the COHA based Cleansing process for the metadata is being handled by Ignu by Dr. Mrs. Suma Kanchilla and We have to build the cloud on which the entire data for the national virtual library will decide She will be happy to know that that cloud is being built in IIT Bombay as we speak Tendering process is going on and we will have Three petabytes of storage to store cultural content. I don't know whether you are aware of what petabyte is So you know megabytes, right? megabytes is generally you measure your Videos or pictures or some such thing. So thousand megabytes is one gigabyte Thousand gigabytes is one terabytes and thousand terabytes is one petabyte This is the largest storage cloud in any academic issue in the country when it is established and we propose to inaugurate it in May And I have promised the security culture that our library will be one of the first ones to go on to the cloud Of course, after the cloud is established, the software is released. There's a lot of activity by which time we should be ready Now since I have taken the responsibility of training one lakh Library staff. I thought we will start with our own library. So this you people whatever Feedback that you gave in this short training We will actually take that feedback Modify the core structure appropriately so that it can be done using moves that subsequent training using massive open online courses some of you we might request to work as our associate faculty to Monitor the discussion forum where people will ask questions here. You can ask questions directly and When people are away, they can ask questions only by typing them So there will be lots of interesting things that will happen and I'm very happy that You are going to be the pioneering batch in the country for this large cultural I must also thank dr. Manjanaika and her for she she just mentioned that she works in national chemical laboratory And NCL library has just gone live with Koa yesterday So that's a that's a good sign So, thank you very much ma'am for coming here and I'm very grateful to professor Ramadevi on a weekend. She found time to Spare time with us. I'll request her to say a few words Professor Patek without film. I don't think we should come into limelight. It should be the first Institute amongst IITs and IITs and IACs To start implementing Koa as early as possible Let's learn all the tools all of you put in full mind into it and learn all the tools which is being going to be taught by Sunita so she's really, you know, she has been working on it for the last several years and she knows inside out and Such an opportunity. I don't think any of you will get anywhere So please make use of it at full swing learn every bit of it ask her every questions Clarify and be part of the MOOC as volunteers or participants or adjunct Faculty to help others all over India so that we we really have taken this drive and Let's all put in all our hundred percent effort into it. Thank you. Thank you, Professor Patek I request Dr. Barwai to share some of her initial thoughts although she'll be speaking to you throughout the day But on this occasion Hello, good morning. I Have been conducting Koa workshops for last several years and It's been hard to convince Your own peers as well as the layman. So as Dr. Patek has taken an initiative and all of you have gathered here I'm sure all of you will start liking Koa software because once you like then you try to know more That's very important and it's very simple and certainly proprietary software has to go out From the library community. That's very important and why koa is a many people ask why koa I mean why there are so many other good software available in the market why we are promoting koa First thing is functionality point of view. We should see that and it has a base of international standards So maybe today koa is good tomorrow something better than cars koa comes into the market We should be able to move from koa But otherwise let me tell you yesterday only we have gone live in NCL for koa and really we had very tough time going From whatever software we were using it was a tough time for us to really move and let me tell you very honestly We could not get hundred percent out of it So if I would have continued still further with that existing software I would have had really great difficulty and would have spent unnecessary a lot of money and The output would have not been really achieved and as you know many countries now many states now are made making it mandatory That they should use only koa. So if IIT has taken an initiative We also have to accept that initiative and go forward to it learn it It's very simple software by within half a day sessions, which I will be conducting in the afternoon I know you will be understanding all the modules. So there won't be many questions But certainly as the MOOC is going to be there, you will whatever queries you will have in future They can be sorted out easily. So I hope Soon IIT library also will move to koa and all of we would be part of this moment Which is happening in the library science profession. Thank you for giving me opportunity to come here and share my thoughts I just want to add one. Yeah, so I think whatever existing we are doing on a lips suit or lipses I want you to do all of you after learning this if you can contribute to parallely doing koa It'd be nice and once we are completely convinced koa can take over everything We will switch over to koa if the institute, you know the ERP everything permission happens We will get to it. I'll add a couple of things here she mentioned koa as if koa is the only thing and Something is wrong with the other pieces of software. So software is something which I understand rather well I've been working with it for 40 years. So let me tell you that We are functional people your job is to handle library the other people whose job is to handle account somebody else is handling Stores you must have heard of ERP package that is going on that madam just mentioned Now in this context, it should be understood that there will be different pieces of software Some software will be charged software because people have spent time and money to develop that and there is absolutely Nothing wrong with commercial products Wherever we need we have to adopt commercial products wherever we can we can adopt open source product The open source products suffer from one problem sometimes that if there is no community to support that product Then if there are problems, there is nobody to solve those problems However, koa comes under that category like Linux operating system or MySQL database Where there is a very large community of developers programmers who are working to enrich that software Perpetual and that is the reason why the ministry has chosen koa and the world over the moment is to choose koa another advantage of choosing a common system is that exchangeability of information enhances significant So I would like to in conclusion say that there is nothing wrong with lipses lipses is being used by many people in the world But nation is taking a standardization step and we wish to move towards that Second thing I would like to mention is whenever you shift from one system to another Invariably our mind will compare the user interaction That was there in my earlier system and that will there now The institute is facing this problem in adopting ERP Because you know that we have computerization in many places already the DNR and his interface for example Which we use for sponsored projects is found so convenient Now anytime the ERP fellow comes and says aisa nahi aisa karna padega our mind says why this nonsense? I was doing it easily with this system. Why do I have to adopt this system? You will realize that any system that you adopt for the first time will always have this problem Recall the days when lipses was implemented was it all hunkidori immediately you could start working all of you Had to spend some time to get acclimatized to that kind of interval. So this is natural So I'll repeat two things number one. There's nothing wrong in Commercial products being used. There's nothing wrong in open source product being used when we use something we should The decide on the basis of what is most useful? What is most economical and what permits us to go forward in life along with other similar people? It is from that point of view that libraries in India and libraries world over are moving towards this as I said there will be Some activities subsequently and I really admire the suggestion made by a press Rama Devi that You should actually start working Using koa, which means much even before the Institute takes a decision or rather to facilitate the right decision It might be useful for at least some of you to start There is some activity that has already started if you can buttress that And then since you all know existing system, you will be the best people to tell how The problems are coming while transferring data from this to that system how those problems are being resolved and We will all benefit from that and the nation will benefit because exactly similar questions are being asked in thousands of libraries across the country and If we can be the pioneers to help them understand what are the problems and what are the solutions Then we could make all such solutions contributed by you or all such problems identified by you Properly acknowledging who has contributed what will make all of that part of our open-source lessons So that people in the country when they use our online courses and others They will not only see just the lectures and other thing. They'll also see contributions from you Saying you had system a you tried to move to system b. These were the problems that you face This is how the problems were resolved so that we can also take a proper decision and it will be helpful So, thank you very much madam for it. So without further ado I would Was just waiting for dr. Das to come in whenever he comes. I'll request him to speak a few words He is busy in as I said is an important activity all of us at children participating in school competitions And you know how important for children it is for the parents to be present For them, it's a unique event So I he called me in fact and I told him please don't rush spend time with it in the competition And then come he'll come there, but I thought In the inaugural function at least a cup of tea is given to people or tea is arranged Okay Since we have some time I would like to pass on the mic Because each participant and I was I must tell you I was quite surprised that so many participants came forward To invest one of their weekend times on on these activities very encouraging I'll pass on this mic and if you could kindly just tell me your name and What activity you handle? I'll be very happy this will be kind of introduction and this will also get recorded Hello, everybody. I am LP Ngollay assistant librarian central library Pralat Kishan Salve working in central library Malaysia of the sir a Xerox section central library Rajesh Sarmadkar reference section Will ask off the circulation counter circulation section Manor Pujari working in circle in section Sriram Tatkar a working circulate section Kailash Keule working in journal section. I don't want sonar Working journal section Rajit Jadov from pamphlet section Myself Jitendra Jain working in technical processing section and Doing the classification and cataloging for new books and other proof One Yes, sir, it is important. It is the big backbone of the library. That's good. Good morning to all myself Kadam Mashtwala. I'm working in book acquisition section before two days earlier. I was in circulation section and We are doing so many cataloging correction at a time when the we received the book when it will return and so many Problems we are facing at the some just a is a means standards number. Hey, so she is me. I Was up. What's our garbage? Hey, Tita? So do you know we have to be a rectify with us or I'm going to and we have already started The general section entry means Jonas cup earlier. I was in general section Then we have already started in Koha entry and we have already entered the newspaper entry in Koha also So daily basis we have a record if the newspaper will not come we will less the money from the bill That kind of activities we have already done in general section Hello, good morning everybody Myself Anil Patnaik We are maintaining 20,000 online journals some and also using Koha software there and We are maintaining all the Billing and certified everything we are doing there So we are now we are maintaining 70 new corrodes Janals Myself Sankar Vihara Circulation section Myself Nishkatan Vishwal working in a book equity in section Myself Akhlish Dove. I'm Sister Madhu in Central Library I'm Tia Nadikari working in Central Library Circulation Section My name is Vishwas Sonokat Kale. I am working as a binder and take all the Help to all the library has run well and good in In our IIT I am TV Kamre working in Circulation Section Library Information Office Myself Dipthi Chaurasia. I'm working in technical processing section Good morning all Myself Anita Narwade. I'm working as a technical assistant in some library I'm Vatsala Suradkar. I'm working in book acquisitions I'm working in journals section. I'm taking care of subscription of journals Agent as well as the diet also. We are doing the operations and co-op for those issues I am Vrunda Vishwas Katkore Working in IIT Culture Association Library in Public Library. My name is Neena Menon. I'm working in Circulation Section Myself Sfati Bhoer Junior Assistant in Library Information Office Good morning all Myself Sampruti Havaldar I'm working in reference section and handling electronic thesis and dissertations Hello, I'm Mrs. Sharma working in pamphlet section. That's a report and report section as thesis and dissertation section My name is Garima Sarva My name is Raja Rajaram Mahadeep. TPA section book Procedure My name is Kalpana Ravindra Patil. I'm working in binding section Chandrakara Prabhakar Saad Devi. Pompad section Good morning all I'm Mangesh Vairam Baikwad. Working in the Labrin office Good morning everyone. My name is Dadu Janu Jungle. I'm working in Circulation Section. I'm Kishore Gowurli. I'm working in Circulation Section I was searching for a book in the RAG and I found a smart undergraduate student who took a book from one of the shelves and instead of going to the circulation counter those days you have to sign and there is he quietly went to another shelf and kept that book there and I could not understand why he was doing that I Said why that book was wrongly kept there. He smiled and he says no that book is in heavy demand But I do not have my quota So if I come tomorrow, I'll not find the book, but nobody else will find it till tomorrow now This is equivalent to wrong classification I mean this was physical asset strongly being classified But let me tell you that Information that you collect whether it is technical processing or subsequently or as he said so much corrections to be done One wrong piece of information that gets associated with book or journal in the digital world Believe me nobody in the world can find it out ever So it is that bad. It's like if accounting entry is not being properly done What would happen to our accounts is almost that so what you people are doing truly is very very important You are the custodians of knowledge for all future generations and One of the correct things that you do will help people to quickly find it out Our ambition is that by next year when much of the metadata is collected We would be able to say this particular book there are 217 copies of that book in India and these are with the following hundred libraries So if you have a book which perhaps is not available at many places Somebody in Kolkata or Coimbatore would be able to search on the NVLI and say oh this book exists in IIT Bombay library Then they can write to you request for a book Today it is not possible to know which book which journal is where is it so that is the ambition And I am very thankful to all of you because you are pioneering this and this work will be helpful Particularly for us to understand where the difficulties lie. Thank you so much. I invite you all to join us for a cup of tea