The indexes for Department of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station literature are not the easily located or readily available except in a few libraries. There is valuable historical research that could be of use to researchers in many fields. Agricultural librarians need to find ways to make the literature more readily available. This article presents the best sources for finding citations. Article copies available for a fee from Haworth document delivery service: 1-800-HAWORTH. :e-mail address Docdelivery@haworthpress.com web site:http://HaworthPress.com copyright 2002 by the Haworth press, Inc.. All rights reserved.
Alexander, Merle (author), Chamundeeswari, K. (author), Kambu, Alphonse (author), Ruiz, Manuel (author), and Tobin, Brendan (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23188
Notes:
Communication Initiative. 2 pages., Exerpts from the executive summary of a 48-age report published by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies. The report features seven case studies in Venezuela, Panama, Canada, India and Peru.
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.
