With the advent of Internet resources, managing electronic information resources has become a challenge for Information professionals. Well designed organization or library web portal helps in dissemination of electronic resources to their user community more efficiently. Today’s Internet contains variety of authoritative web resources (free & priced), integrating all these into single window enhances information dissemination.  This can be achieved using commercial or open source content management tools. Various open source CMS tools are available under GNU-GPL on the net, to name few Drupal, Joomla, OpenCMS, Wordpress, etc.
Drupal (http://www.drupal.org) is an open source, platform independent content management tool. Its popular features are simple, flexible, customizable, multiplatform, multilingual, web 2.0 complaint, web based administration, powerful report generation functionality, well organized browse and search etc. It is module based package where we can incorporate the functionalities as per our requirements. It has strong, active user and developer community who supports in overcoming difficulties in installation and configuration. Self explanatory documentation is available for the package and it is updated frequently. Different websites like Education, Institutional, E-commerce, News, Multimedia etc., have been designed using Drupal (6000+ registered websites are using drupal across globe in various languages). 
NAL-ICAST (http://www.icast.org.in) has made use of Drupal for designing AeroInfo, a portal of catalogue of web resources on Aerospace and related disciplines and other services like Discussion forums for various Aerospace categories/clusters.

The goal of this training program is to enable individual and organisations to initiate building their library web portals. The specific intention of the training program is to impart practical training to participants in using the package for creation and maintenance of their library portal. Focus is on installing, configuring, customizing and administration of this package. The main objective is to acquire complete knowledge and skill sets required to build one's own subject specific web portal.

Experts from IT Application group at NAL-ICAST.

Fellow professional interested in and responsible for creating, managing and providing web based information service. These may include: librarians, information and KM managers, computing and information systems managers, publishers and information systems solution providers.

Basic understanding of Operating system, Internet, Intranets, and databases is essential. Basic understanding of web sites, web page creation, HTML forms, web servers, information retrieval, searching, and databases will be useful.

Number of participants: Maximum of 25. In case of two participants from an individual organization, sharing of one workstation would be permitted.

Registration Fees: Rs. 2000 (Rs. two thousands only), DD should be drawn in favor of “Director NAL”, Payable at Bangalore. Local Organisations can also remit the fees through cheques.

Fee covers course material, software CD, lunch and tea. Accommodation cost is not included.

Accommodation: Limited accommodation is available at NAL Guest house.

Registration is on first-come-first-served basis. Registration fee along with the filled registration form should reach the coordinator on or before 5th April 2011. Payment should be in the form of a DD drawn in favor of “Director NAL”, Payable at Bangalore.

• Introduction to Content Management
• An Overview of Drupal
• Installation of Drupal on Windows/ Linux (Fedora)Demo
• Configuration of Modules ,Themes, Menus & Blocks
• Content Creation  Functionality
• Custom Content Kit (CCK) & Taxonomy
• Views Configuration
• User management
• Site Configuration
• Multilingual Content
• Report Generations & Backup

Dr. Poornima Narayana
Head, ICAST
National Aerospace Laboratories
Bangalore - 560 017
E-Mail: poornima@nal.res.in; adminicast@nal.res.in
Telephone: Tel: 080-25086080, 81, 82, 83. Fax: 080-25268072

National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), a constituent of Council of Scientific Research (CSIR), and an ISO-9001 : 2008 certified Organisation. NAL is India’s pre-eminent civil R&D establishment in aeronautics and space disciplines.

Over the years, NAL has made very significant contributions to all Indian aerospace programmes. During the last decade NAL has spearheaded the effort to design and develop small and medium-sized aircrafts for the civil sector. NAL is well equipped with modern and sophisticated facilities which include national facilities like Nilakantan Wind Tunnel Centre and the Computerized Full-scale Fatigue Test Facility.

NAL has indigenously developed two major aircrafts. HANSA is the first Indian made all composite light trainer aircraft, ideal for training, sports and hobby flying. SARAS, a fourteen seater multi-role light transport aircraft and has ventured into the development of RTA and to promote Regional Air Transpotation.

The Information Centre of NAL (ICAST) is an ISO-9001: 2000 Certified Centre along with its parent organisation NAL. ICAST with its state-of-the-art expertise, infrastructure and services caters to the information requirements of the Indian aerospace community. Along with its aerospace collection of books, journals and specifically technical reports from world's leading Organisations. The Centre offers Online, Web and CD-ROM based literature search services including access to > 4000 e-journals, news clipping services, AIAA Meeting Papers, NAL Institutional Repository, Online Public Access Catalogue, Union Catalogue of Serials held by CSIR/ Aerospace Libraries and many more. The Centre is equipped with necessary infrastructure and trained manpower.

The Printing & Publications of ICAST is involved in printing and building activities of in-house materials, cover pages of NAL Reports, Brochures, Pads etc. Provision is made for multicolour printing facility.