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2. Sri Lanka : the silent crisis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pickstock, Michael (author / journalist and radio producer, UK)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1993
- Published:
- International: Rome, Italy : Public Affairs and Information Branch, World Food Programme
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06682
- Journal Title:
- World Food Programme Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 23 : 7-8
3. The problem of managing agricultural information systems : a profile of Jamaica
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bandara, Swarna (author / Science Library, University of West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1993
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 96 Document Number: C07569
- Journal Title:
- Quarterly Bulletin of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists
- Journal Title Details:
- 38 (1) : 16-21
- Notes:
- search through journal, The responsibility and tasks of a national agricultural information system (NAIS) is discussed with emphasis on the Ministry of Agriculture Library in Jamaica. The nature of the institutional and interinstitutional infrastructure for agricultural activities; lack of professional staff; lack of awareness of the need for information by potential users; lack of provision for collecting locally generated material; and lack of skills in documentation on the part of agriculturalists are identified as factors hindering the coordination and progress of a NAIS in Jamaica. The development of the National Information Plan; availability of training at the professional and paraprofessional level within the island; cooperation and commitment among librarians at formal and informal levels; and the possibility of approaching funding agencies are described as advantages to a NAIS. Recommendations are made concluding that the problems cannot be fully addressed by librarians without the support of user organizations and there is a definite need for librarians to be active in the problem solving process. (author).