AGRICOLA IND 92017549; Presented at the VIII World Congress of IAALD, May, 1990, Budapest, Hungary, The United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) is the first organization developed specifically to provide a national forum through which U.S. agricultural librarians might address many issues associated with the collection, access and delivery of agricultural information. The objectives of the network include: to provide a forum for discussion of agricultural information issues; to take a leadership role in the formation of a national information policy as related to agriculture; and to make recommendations to the National Agricultural Library on agricultural information matters. The network promotes and assists efforts by the cooperating agencies to: determine the availability and location of resources; develop and implement resource sharing agreements; explore the potentials of shared collection development programs; and maintain and preserve present and future resources. USAIN strives to ensure the fullest possible sharing of information and library materials in the most cost-effective manner. The success of these efforts will help to ensure equality of access and availability of resources for agricultural information users throughout the United States. (original)
Pan, Shu-Chun (author), Wang, Xian-Fu (author), and Chinese Academy of agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.; Chinese Academy of agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
Format:
Journal article
Language:
English with French / Spanish summary
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05203
This paper describes the present status and development of the Chinese agricultural documentation and information systems and the core role of the National AGRIS Center played in promoting the development of the systems. The emphasis has been placed in coordinating and establishing the agricultural databases, computer searching systems, information transmitting systems and international cooperations in China. It points out that the common strategic task facing all the developing countries in the establishment of national agricultural databases in each country and selectively contribute the valuable data to the international agricultural databases for information resources sharing of the world. Digitizing of Chinese characters for establishing the Chinese agricultural databases, the techniques of development and use in dealing the Chinese charactes as well as the technical line adopted for the construction of the Chinses agricultural databases have been also disucssed.
