The first session of the second day (13th Dec.) was on web designing. The session was facilitated by Mr. Sanjay Burde. General introduction to the www, hypertext, hypermedia, webserver, html tags, url etc. were discussed. The next session of the day was on Blogs and their applications in libraries which was facilitated by Mr. Mukesh Pund, NISCAIR. Theoretical concepts on Blogs containing their definition, evolution, their usages, merits, types were discussed followed by practicals sessions.
The first session of the third day (14th Dec.) was on Philosophy of wiki and its uses in library which was facilitated by Mr. Rajeev Kumar. Introduction to wiki, its history, types of wiki, uses of wiki, features of wiki, syntax of wiki were demonstrated and discussed in the session. The second session was on practical on creation of wiki. Various steps required to create wiki were demonstrated. The third session was on RSS which was facilitated by Dr. G. Mahesh. Current awareness services and their changes with the development of new technologies were discussed. In addition, benefits of the RSS to the uses and publishers were also discussed. In addition, sharing of documents using Google documents was practiced.
The first and second session of the fourth day (15th Dec.) was on Federated Search with Koha Integrated Library Software. The session was facilitated by Dr. Mohan Raj Pradhan and Mr. Shiva Ram Shrestha. The concept of automated library system and digital library was discussed with respect to Koha and Greenstone digital library software. There was a visit program to Nepal National Library and site seeing in Bhaktapur Durbar square after the lunch. The participants were introduced with the objectives, services and other activities being carried out by the National Library. The participants were then taken to Bhaktapur to be aware with the historic places.
In the first and session of the last day (16th Dec.) the participants were demonstrated with the general concept of data entry in Koha software. The session was facilitated by Dr. Mohan Raj Pradhan and Mr. Shiva Ram Shrestha.
There was a valedictory program at 4 PM on 16th Dec. 2011. The programme was chaired by Mr. Mukunda Raj Prakash Ghimire, Joint Secretary, MOST and G. B. member of SDC. Mr. Ishwor Singh Thapa, Acting Secretary, MOST was the Chief Guest. Mr. Pradeep Bhattarai spoke on the programme highlighting on the 5 days long workshop. Chief Guest Mr. Ishwor Singh Thapa, handed over the certificates to the participats. Representing the participants Mr. S. Siva Prasad Gauda expressed his happiness to learn and gain new idea about the topic. He further stated that the knowledge used would be implemented in the betterment of library services. Ms. Sheela Manandhar, Librarian of Nepal Administrative Staff College highlighted on the explosion of information in this age. She further stressed that modern technologies should be used to provide better services in this age. She expressed her happiness in participating in the workshop. Ms. Sohaila Noori, from Afghanistan speaking on the occasion said that the workshop was helpful and effective. Though there is a separate library system in Afghanistan, the skill learnt during the workshop would be utilized. Ms. Kesang Dechen, Deputy Director of SDC informed that the programme was the last one of SAARC. She further said that the workshop provided a forum for all the participants to share idea. She thanked MOST and all others engaged in the workshop.
