Each pilot institution in the eIFL-FOSS ILS Project has been invited to an initial project workshop in Yerevan, Armenia on 10-11 June 2008. Participants at this workshop are the technical leads from each pilot institution investigating either the Koha or Evergreen FOSS ILS.

We are delighted that Dan Scott of Laurentian University in Canada and Henri-Damien Laurent of BibLibre in France have agreed to lead the training at the workshop on Evergreen and Koha, respectively.

The workshop is being hosted by the Fundamental Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.

Workshop Programme

The worksop promises to be an intensive two days of technical work with our invited Koha and Evergreen experts. Topics to be covered include:

• project briefing on the role of pilot libraries
• comprehensive demonstration of Koha and Evergreen functionality
• install-fest: guided installation of both ILSs
• data conversion and migration scenarios
• Z39.50 modules
• localization issues
• getting support: asking questions, irc, log files, etc.
• project briefing on the documentation effort of the project
• action plans