Challenges for Librarians

 The challenges for libraries and librarians are increasing day by day.

Whatever advance technologies libraries bring within their work it does not get notices.

It is important for all of us to join together and fight for our work, recognition, maintaining position, maintaining staff, getting noticed within organization.

Big challenge.

DSpace on Windows 7-Desktop Experience

For last few days I was reading posts circulated on Facebook or mailing list where libraries are trying to learn and adopt Dspace based Institutional Repository based on windows platform and many libraries are trying to outsource the work.

Though I have not been working on Windows OS for a long time I thought of trying out installation of Dspace on Windows. I had to spend one full day to install Dspace with lot of errors but finally could successfully install DSpace 6.3 on Windows 7 virtual machine.

I thought of sharing my experience with the users as I spent whole day from Morning 8.00 am to evening 5 pm just for getting my dspace working with windows 7 installation.

1. For more than 3 to 4 hours I was not able to get my postgres installation due to error in Microsoft Visual Basic installation but to figure out that it took lot of time. DSpace installation guide says for windows it supports postgres 8.x but there is no postgres 8.x version available for windows installation and latest version of postgres which is 12.x does not have 32 bit support at all and my Windows 7 was 32 bit installation. I was trying to check Windows 7 - 32 bit compatible version of postgres and I could install postgres-10 which took me to
Interactive installer by EnterpriseDB version of postgres (https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads ) After a lot of struggle I could download postgres version 10 exe file but it was throwing error "install runtime error" then found that I have to create shortcut on desktop and then in Target option I have to setup following

C:\Users\sunita\Downloads\postgresql-10.12-2-windows.exe --install_runtimes 0
After making above change it allowed me to install postgres.


2. I could download apache-ant, apache-maven, java and installed them on my C:\Program Files but even after several attempts it was giving error as "java is not recognized as internal or external command" then after searching on internet  and running following commands my java installation was recognized. Even these commands I had to run as an administrator
   
setx -m JAVA_HOME "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_241"
setx PATH "%PATH%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin";


3. After carrying out installation still browser was throwing error and it was due to tomcat was kept under C:\Program files and again after searching on Internet I moved tomcat from Program Files to dspace directory and it then allowed me to open dspace.

On dspace standard documentation page none of these issues were mentioned as these errors were specific to windows operating system and very little information is provided on dspace documentation page related to Windows OS related installation of dspace.

I had doubt with following queries and would request windows users to comment on following

1. Are libraries installing dspace on Windows Desktop edition or going for Windows Server Edition installation Are small colleges/universities able to buy server edition of Windows operating system
2. Which mail server is used to configure email with dspace on windows platform
3. Are libraries able to secure their dspace installation with https
4. How cron jobs are set up in windows
5. How users are maintained as dspace completely works with user login/password
6. The digital library/institutional repositories in future will need lot of securities as there is constant attacks on websites which are live hence what security measures can be taken if dspace is installed on windows OS
7. Is it easy to get handle.net working through windows OS otherwise all repositories will have their persistent ID as 123456789
8. We have to see that we should think that if we initiate repository today can it successfully run after atleast 5 to 10 years here onwards? We the libraries have to think from "digital preservation" point of view can our developed repository sustain over the years with contents and technology

I am opening this topic to all and request all professional colleagues to comment on this. Pl. correct/add any other points which are important and missing here.

I would also like to collect list of live repositories available on Windows and running successfully live on Internet and where above all options are already incorporated by the libraries.

We also need to know what unique we have in our libraries which eventually can be part of IR.

कुणी कुणाला भेटणार नाही पुढील २१ दिवस 

कुणाला  कुणाचा राग येणार नाही

कुणी कुणाचा द्वेष करणार नाही

कुणाच्या घरी कुणी जाणार नाही आणि गेला नाही म्हणून रागावणार हि नाही

कुणाची  कुणी लग्न समारंभ/वाढदिवस/गेट टुगेदर ला बोलवले नाही म्हणून तक्रार नाही

कुणी कुणाशी खोट बोलण्याची गरज नाही

कुणी कुणाचं मुद्दाम नुकसान करण्याची गरज नाही

कुणी कुणाचं ऑफिस मध्ये नुकसान करणार नाही

कुणी कुणाकडे वाईट नजरेने बघणार नाही

कुणी कुणाशीही राजकारण करणार नाही

कुणी कोणावरही कुरघोडी करणार नाही

कुणाचं कुणा शेजार्यांशी भांडण होणार नाही

कुणाच कुणा सहकाऱ्यांशी  वाद नाही तंटा नाही हेवेदावे नाही मतभेद नाहीत

कुणाला ऑफिस च्या राजकारणाचा त्रास नाही 

कुणी कुणाकडे पैशांचा तगादा लावणार नाही 

कुणी कुणाला कमी लेखणार नाही 

Corona Fear

Everything is getting stopped big fear in everybody's mind. Offices are closed down. Its difficult to understand we dont know where this virus will take world. Everything is at zero level. What if all people sit at home and dont go anywhere for few weeks world is not going to stop but people are not taking it seriously. People are still bothered to go for work.

Women's Day

Every year Women's Day is celebrated across the world. We all women live in 21st century but still it is a sad part our world is still men driven. Though a women is capable of doing things in a much better way is deprived from being given her rights at work place. It is observed at many places women's are purposely not given any opportunity because she is sensitive, very honest and can handle things in a transparent and much better way than men could do. We are still stuck up in a who is working in what position than who is capable of doing things even that person is on a lower position.

We really need to built up a society with atmost transparancy at work place.

भारतातील राजकारण आणि रोजच्या जीवनातील राजकारण

या वर्षी election २०१९ च्या राजकारणात अनेक लोकांचे video बघितले. सध्या अनेक मोठ्या पदावरचे लोक प्रचंड खोट बोलताना दिसतात स्वतःच्या स्वार्थासाठी लोक खूप खालची पातळी गाठताना दिसतात. अशा पद्धतीने समाज व्यवस्था किती ढासळत चाललीये याच लोकांना भान राहताना दिसत नाहीये.

सरकारी कार्यालयात हि बर्याचदा चुकीचे निर्णय घेतले जातात आणि नाहक प्रामाणिकपणे काम करणार्यांचा बळी जातो कोण किती काम करत याच्याशी काही घेण देण नसत स्वत:चा अहंकार जपला म्हणजे झाल अशी मोठ्या अधिकाऱ्यांची स्तीती अनुभवायला मिळते.

RFID Technology in Libraries

RFID technology in libraries is a big challenge.


Since RFID tags are generated by humans and pasted by humans lot of chance is there that wrong tags are pasted to wrong books. While tagging books humans can enter wrong accession number and those wrong accession numbered books can be pasted on wrong books. Especially in big libraries it is very much necessary to take care of tagging of books.

Information about book comes from backend database and RFID software does not have facility to check for duplicate number hence while using RFID in libraries, libraries have to take atmost care while tagging the document. Otherwise it becomes a full mess and many books get tagged with same number, wrong tags get added on wrong books. It becomes a big mess if tags are not generated properly.