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2. Family agriculture: tradition and transformation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Francis, David G. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- USA: Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, England
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01380
- Notes:
- 228 pages.
3. Information management for rural development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bose, P.C. (author) and Jain, H.C. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- India: Shipra Publications, Delhi, India.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C12878
- Notes:
- Papers presented at the 12th Annual Convention and Conference of the Society for Information Science, Hyderabad, India, January 28-30, 1993. 159 pages.
4. Information systems for agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Blackie, M.J. (author), Dent, J.B., eds. (author), and Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Economics, School of Agriculture, University of South Pacific, Apia, Western Samoa; Professor of Farm Management and Rural Valuation, Lincoln College, Canterbury, New Zealand
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1979
- Published:
- UK
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 41 Document Number: B04719
- Notes:
- Includes Preface and Table of Contents only, London, UK : Applied Science Publishers, Ltd.,1979. 176 p.
5. Privatization of information and agricultural industrialization
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wolf, Steven A. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1998
- Published:
- International: CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01217
6. The emerging network marketplace
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dordick, Herbert S. (author), Bradley, H.G. (author), and Nanus, Burt (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1981
- Published:
- USA: Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, NJ.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21250
- Notes:
- Includes a discussion (p. 151) about attitudes of rural residents in support of rural post offices, despite potentials for using electronic technology instead of physical delivery of mail. "Of the Service's 40,000 buildings, 30,800 can be considered community or rural installations and generate only 4.5% of the total revenues." Mentions (p. 216-217) several agricultural applications of computer networks. (p. 217) Farmers are among the latest group to join a fast-growing list of non-technical users of computer networks. They are becoming aware that farming is not a way of life but a business - one that needs management tools." Predicts (p. 237) "In the nineties the issue will be one of equality of access to information, with the specialized networks doing very well financially because of the valuable and efficient services they will be providing. For some time, thoughtful observers have expressed fear that the emerging information society will produce a new class of information elite, and, indeed, there do exist two classes of people and businesses: the information users and the information used." Observes that electronic technologies are not decentralizing and opening access to business opportunities, but leading toward concentration of the components of the network marketplace. (p. 237) "This greater concentration of intellectual power in the emerging information society can only lead to concentrations of industrial and financial power which are not in concert with the American economic dream."