We are pleased to inform you that the Preliminary 6th Meeting of the AUNILO Committee was successfully held at Universitas Indonesia on 14th December 2009. The Meeting was attended by AUNILO Secretariat, AUN Secretariat and Host Committee (Universitas Indonesia).
In this regard, the date for the 6th Meeting of the AUNILO Committee as follows:
Date: 7-9 April 2010
Venue: Hotel Grand Kemang, Jakarta
Theme: Access to ASEAN Collections: Building portal, bridging nations
The University of Malaya Library is pleased to announce a 3-day IR Workshop using DSpace, for the members of the ASEAN University Network Inter-Library Online (AUNILO) from 25th – 27th May, 2009 at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Institutional repositories (IR) have become an important source of primary information for researchers and is popularly used in many countries. IR allows management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its members. Setup of IRs especially in universities and colleges is imperative for the long-term preservation, as well as organization, access and distribution of institutional digital materials. Many institutions of higher learning have handed over the responsibility of setting up IRs to the libraries. The library and the librarians now have to empower themselves with the knowledge and expertise of using necessary software to initiate IR.
DSpace is one of the non-profit source software to build open digital repositories. It is easy to install and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization.
DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets.
Date and Venue
The Workshop will be held on 25th – 27th May, 2009, 9.00 am – 5.00 pm at the Computer Lab, Faculty of Business and Accountancy, University of Malaya see Campus Map (PDF; 420KB)
Objectives
The Workshop has been designed to facilitate the participants in creating state-of-art digital repositories using DSpace, which include software installation, configuration, customization, digitization and other related workflow operations.
At the end of the workshop, participants are expected to be able to carry out the following activities using DSpace and its associated software:
Install;
Configure;
Customize;
Harvest; and
Use DSpace Interface and its various utility panels.
Participants are requested to bring along their laptops, if possible.
The 5th Meeting of the AUNILO Committee, 6-8 November 2008, Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Theme: Library Services of the AUNILO: Towards Integration – on Facebook and Flickr.
The 4th Meeting of the AUNILO Working Committee, 22-24 November 2007, Centre of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Theme: Knowledge and Information Management – on Facebook and Flickr.
