Development of Institutional Repository using DSpace Software: An experience @ JIIT Noida

I just attended the following professional talk at NLB today:

Topic : Development of Institutional Repository using DSpace Software: An experience @ JIIT Noida

Speaker : Dr Sanjay Kataria, Head, Learning Resource Centre, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University

Date : 4 March 2010 (Thursday)

Time : 4.00pm - 5.30pm (Please be seated by 3.50pm.)

Venue : Visitor's Briefing Room, Level 1, National Library Building

LAS Professional Development Scheme (PDS) Points: 46
(Applicable only to librarians who are participants of PDS)

The presentation emphasize the development of Institutional Repository (IR) by using open sources software for maintaining, sustaining, and preserving of scholarly contents of an institution/university.



It also focus on the possible difficulties before and after development of an institutional repository.



The presentation include live experiences and experiments. Further, the components for building institutional repository/digital library was being discussed and Dr Kataria concluded the presentation with important lessons learnt during the experimenting and development of institutional repository @ Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Noida UP India.

Dr Sanjay Kataria is working as Head, Learning Resource Centre, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Noida UP India.



He has also accredited the libraries of Jaypee Group of Institutions i.e. JUIT, JIET, JBS and Extended centre of JIIT Noida. Dr Kataria is an innovative and active library professional. He has more than one decade of experience from various reputed organizations including United Service Institution of India.

Dr Kataria has earned Master of Philosophy and Doctoral of Philosophy in Library and Information Science. He has contributed 14 research papers in various national and international conferences and journals, edited two books, three souvenirs and one proceeding of International Symposium.