Faheem Akbar

Faheem Akbar

Faheem Akbar is a librarian, technology trainer and founder of VWS Academy in Islamabad, Pakistan. He has worked at the National Agricultural Research Centre since 2007 and manages the National Library of Agricultural Sciences as Senior Librarian. He holds an MPhil in Library and Information Science from AIOU (2023). His VWS Online guides focus on Koha, SLiMS, DSpace, MARC records and WordPress. Learn more about his work at About VWS Online.

Koha Live DVD on Ubuntu Installation Guide

Koha Live DVD

Installing Koha on Ubuntu can feel difficult if you are new to Linux, library automation, or server setup. Many librarians, students, and library science professionals want to learn Koha, but the technical installation steps can become confusing. This Koha Live…

Unleashing Senayan Library Management System(SLIMS )

Senayan Library Management System (SLiMS) is open source integrated library management software developed by  Indonesian Library Community in 2007, about 17 versions of SLiMS have been released. It is licensed under the GPL v3. The web application developed by a team from the Center for Information and Public…

How to Install portable SLiMS on Windows in 5 Minutes

Slims

SLiMS (Senayan Library Management System) is an open-source, fee-free library automation system developed in Indonesia. It is widely used around the world for managing library operations efficiently. SLiMS is coded in PHP and uses MySQL or MariaDB as its database.…