International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

Kathmandu, Nepal

ICIMOD Library

Project

HUC Librarians MeetingKathmandu

26-27 August 2010

Deependra Tandukar

dtandukar@icimod.org

Technologies

In use• CDS-ISIS, WebAgris (http://library.icimod.org.np),

BooksOnline (http://www.icimod.org/publications)

Tested and reviewed• KOHA-Greenstone, NewGenLib, Dspace,

Invenio…

Currently being developed• Invenio

ICIMOD Library Homepage

Why Invenio

Functionalities we were looking for

KOHA-

Greenstone

Dspace NewGenLib Invenio

Full text

indexing

User Interface Integration

between KOHA

and Greenstone

is not seamless

Good Good Good

Personalisation

Simple

Access

restriction Flexible

Flexible

Display of data Not user-friendly Not very flexible Flexible Flexible

CDS Invenio

• Integrated digital library system - formerly CDSware

• Free software (GNU-GPL)

• Complies with OAI-PMH

• Uses MARC21 as bibliographic standard

• Developed and maintained by the CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research

• Powerful search engine including parallel searching of external libraries/collections

• User personalisation, including document baskets and email notification alerts

• Flexible and powerful user right management

HUC Library concept

Concept

Builds on

• Connecting HKH libraries (first discussed in 2003)Couldn’t start

– technologies

– funding

HUC Board members (vice chancellors/

deans) called upon ICIMOD to explore the

concept of connecting the HUC libraries

especially to provide access to bibliographical

records and grey literature and full text thesis,

PhD to start with.

Dehradun meeting, February 2009

Goal

Link the libraries to give mutual access to

informationPossibilities (depend on agreement and technologies)

1. Metadata of documents of all (or some of) the

libraries accessible from all other libraries(each harvests the others’ data)

2. Metadata of documents of all (or some of) the

libraries accessible from ICIMOD (ICIMOD harvests data)

3. Metadata of documents of all (or some of) the

libraries searchable from ICIMOD(no harvesting)

Now

Library 1

Library 3

ICIMOD

library

Visit each library

separately to get

the results from

the libraries

Library 4

Library 2No online

presence

Library 5No online

presence

Any

Library

Option 1: two way harvest

Library 1

Library 3

Library 4

Library 2

ICIMOD

library

Visit any library

and carry out

integrated search

of all libraries

ICIMOD

library

Option 2: one way harvest

Library 1

Library 3

Library 4

Library 2

Library 5

Visit ICIMOD

library and carry

out integrated

search of all the

libraries at once

Option 3: parallel search

Library 1

Library 3

Library 4

Library 2

Visit ICIMOD

library, search

other libraries at

once

ICIMOD

library

Library 1

Library 2

Library 3

Library 4

Harvesting

Other

repositoriesBibConvert

BibHarvest

Repositories

(OAI Compliant)

Interactive

Submissions

WebSubmit

Metadata

HUC Libraries ICIMOD Library

Benefits

Issue

• Research done in our part of the world is not visible due

to difficulty in access

After libraries are linked

• Access to greater volume of knowledge including grey

literature and PhD theses(more efficient use of library resources, existing research become the basis for

further research, hence contributes to generate new knowledge)

• Easier access within and from outside the region to

regional research knowledge(helps publicise knowledge, avoids duplication and improves visibility, saves

time for researchers)

ICIMOD Library

Library 4

Library 1 Library 3

Library 2Library 5

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Access HUC libraries

from anywhere any time

with any device

Ideally!

HUC

Libraries