Garrucio, Maria (author / Bioversity International) and International Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2009-02-19
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28920
Notes:
3 pages., Summary of discussion during a session about this subject at ShareFair held at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, January 20-22, 2009.
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.
