Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26766
Notes:
Reprint of 19 pages provided as CD in John P. Brien, "Research contributions in agricultural extension and communication," a thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Agricultural Science, Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science, University of Queensland., Keynote address at the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Congress, Sydney, Australia.
Crowley, J.P. (author / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Government and Public Affairs) and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Government and Public Affairs
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 55 Document Number: C01239
Notes:
AgComm Teaching; See also ID C01090, IN: Marks, J.J. and Cooper, B., eds., Proceedings of the ESCOP Communications Workshop; 1982 September 16-17; St. Louis, MO. Columbia, MO : University of Missouri, 1982. p. 68
Important results of a survey on "Information needs and information behavior in extension service in agriculture, home economics and nutrition" are given. This study was carried out by the Department for Economic and Social Sciences of the Technical University of Munich-Weihenstephan from May, 1979 to November, 1981. It revealed, by interviewing 14 leading personnel of documentation centers for nutrition, agriculture and forestry, that extension agents only form a very small sector of the centers' user. Various surveys using personal as well as written interviews and participant observation of extension agents resulted in a host of data on the determinants of extension agents' behavior toward information in general and "prophylactic" and "curative" in particular. Conclusions are drawn on optimal configurations of the future sources of information in the field of extension services in nutrition, home economics, and agriculture.
