World Digital Libraries- An International Journal

Technological developments imply a genuine transformation of the entire landscape of modern-day society. Information is power and its preservation and dissemination is a treasure for generations to come. The digital content, available today, is throwing serious challenges among the information industry to preserve and provide secured access; Open Access Digital Library Software, such as DSpace, E-prints, and Greenstone, etc., is capable of meeting such challenges. The library and information science (LIS) professionals have been imparted various training platforms to learn pedagogy of such software. DSpace is one of the most prominent and globally used institutional repository software. This article presents an effort to understand the impact of DSpace training programmes/workshops on LIS professionals.