Argues that the knowledge and ability to build and describe collections needs to be spread among a larger distributed group of participants in the face of two trends: (1) Traditional methods of organizing,k describing and providing access to documents are being overwhelmed by the ever-increasing number of digitized materials. (2) Cultural and indigenous knowledge is disappearing as environments and people cease to exist. Suggests three mechanisms.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25911
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Posted at www.thehoot.org > "Grassroots media" section, Via Media South Asia. 3 pages., "A low-profile, but innovative and imaginative farm journal is very popular among cash-crop growers in southern Karnataka and northern Kerala." Variously spelled "Adike Patrike" and "Adike Pathrike"
