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Initiatives

· The Institute has partnered with a software company called Verus Solutions Pvt. Ltd., (VSPL) in Hyderabad in developing a web-based library automation and networking software. The software, NewGenLib has many advanced features, and at the initiative of the Trust has been made an open source product under GNU GPL licensing. The binaries, source code, documentation and installation instructions may be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/newgenlib.

· The Trust has provided knowledge of the functional needs of libraries and international standards, functionality testing, development of the help files, user manual, and multimedia tutorials for NewGenLib and software development expertise has come from Verus Solutions Pvt., Ltd (VSPL). The Trust continues to take an active interest in advocating the use of open source and in enhancing the software and in its use of international metadata standards.

· Advice to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Govt. of India, on the modernization of the National Medical Library (NML) in New Delhi. A contract for this work has been signed between KIIKM and the South Asian Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO). A consultant mission visited NML during 8-24 May 2003. A comprehensive report on modernization of NML has since been submitted to WHO.

· Publication of a text book on library automation targeted to developing country students and teachers of library science. The book titled Library Automation: Design, Principles and Practice was published by Allied Publishers on behalf of the Institute and was released in August 2004. Click here to see the Table of Contents of the book. A second reprint of the book was issued in 2008.

· Coordinated a workshop on Open Access Agricultural Information Networks in India sponsored by FAO of the United Nations and ICRISAT, at Hyderabad in Nov. 2006.

· Associated with several academic institutions in conducting workshops on standards in library and information management and networking