(Guest blog post from Gantulga Lkhagva, Scientific Library of Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. This workshop was part of the eIFL-FOSS Skills and Tools Workshops initiative.)

With support from eIFL.net, the Mongolian Libraries Consortium  organized a 3-day Koha ILS and Eprints IR training workshop (14-16th, October 2009) for IT engineers and librarians in the Mongolian library community.

During the first day of the workshop, IT engineers and participants were shown how to install an Ubuntu server and the Koha ILS from a CD as well as the management of Debian GNU/Linux.

During the second day workshop, librarians and participants were shown how to manage tha KOHA including the following modules:

• Cataloging
• Patrons
• Acquisitions
• Circulation
• Tools
• etc.

During the third day workshop, all of the participants attended for a workshop on Eprints IR management and its possibilities for libraries.

Participants in the workshop were from 26 different institutions including public library and university, academic etc.

(Additional photos from the workshop available here.)

Gantulga Lkhagva
Scientific Library of Mongolian Academy of Sciences
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia