Re: Introduction

Hello, Fred --

The DSpace documentation is quite good, and may be enough to get you set up and running:

https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x

Their support page has a very nice guide on to how to seek help:

https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Support

For when you get stuck, there's a Slack channel, too:

https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Slack

Though I echo Monica's comment that the user groups are the best place to start with your questions: the Slack channels are usually 
reserved for resolving thorny problems and discussing application development issues.

Depending on your degree of technical expertise, you may want to work with a systems administrator and/or some other IT person at your 
institution also, to work out the details of where DSpace will be installed, who will be responsible for maintaining the host and the 
software, etc.  There are also third parties that will set up and help manage a DSpace instance for you (for a fee).

-- Scott

-- 
Scott Prater
Digital Library Architect
UW Digital Collections Center
University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Hi Fred,

Welcome! There is a very robust DSpace community all over the world, including user groups and listservs. That might be the best place
to start for DSpace help in particular.

https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/User+Groups

EIFL also has lots of really good resources about DSpace repositories, e.g.
https://www.eifl.net/resources/webinar-good-practices-setting-dspace-repositories

Best,
Monica

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 10:18 AM Fred Kwaku Hayibor <fhayibor_at_uhas.edu.gh>
wrote:

> My name is Fred Hayibor, Assistant Librarian in charge of e-resources
> at the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana.
> I have taken keen interest in library technologies and scholarly
> communication. I did my graduate research on Institutional
> Repositories but I have not had a practical exposure to the
> technology. Now I am ready to get practical and need a mentor in
> setting up DSpace, customizing the software and managing workflows.
>
> I am happy to join this progressive community, and am ready to
> network, learn and also contribute my experience to help others who may need it.
>