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).
Hobson, Melva (author), Stadler, Tania (author), and Hobson: Department of Primary Industry, Indooroopilly, Australia; Stadler: University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1991-11
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06490
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; Paper presented at a conference at University of College of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, November 1991, Mimeographed, 1991. 9 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes3 Document Number: D09145
Notes:
Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, Agriculture and rural development technical services project
AID/LAC/DR/RD, Chemonics international, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07988
Notes:
James F Evans Collection; Table of Contents and Executive Summary only, The Hague: International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1991. 67 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07788
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, cited reference, The Hague: International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1989. 37 p. (OFCOR Comparative Study Paper No. 3).
Klinefelter, D.A. (author), Knutson, R.D. (author), Paggi, M.S. (author), Richardson, J.W. (author), Smith, E.G. (author), and Agricultural and Food Policy Center, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: C00126
Notes:
College Station, TX : Texas A&M University, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1986. 73 p.
Bunting, A.H. (author / University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom) and University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 54 Document Number: C01137
Notes:
AgComm Teaching; See also ID C01252 - C01275, In: Symposium on education for agriculture; 1984 November 12-16; Manila, Philippines. Manila, Philippines : the International Rice Research Institute, 1985. 32 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07423
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: M. Drosdoff, ed. World food issues, 2nd ed. Ithaca, NY: Center for the Analysis of World Food Issues, Program in International Agriculture, Cornell University, 1984. p. 65-71., Discusses factors and strategies necessary in developing countries to increase food production by agricultural research and technology transfer. Notes that factors affecting these issues include: (1) available physical and biological resources as they promote or constrain food production (2) the milieu for the initiation, development, testing, and delivery of new and improved technology appropriate to a given environment (local research and extension institutions); (3) government policies relative to incentives for farmers to produce more food; and, (4) existence of regional and international institutions to facilitate the generation and transfer of technology. Strategies identified as appropriate to the transfer of technology are: (1) the indigenous capability to understand the technology to be transferred; (2) adequately trained extension agents; (3) availability of researchers to modify the technology to fit local conditions; (4) ability to generate technology in situ; and (5) on-going farmer training.
Trigo, E. J. (author / Agricultural Research Policy Seminar, University of Minnesota, April 8 - 19, 1984. 25 p.) and Agricultural Research Policy Seminar, University of Minnesota, April 8 - 19, 1984. 25 p.
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 103 Document Number: C08892
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07493
Notes:
cited reference, In: The role of extension services in national development. Lusaka, Zambia: National Council for Scientific Research, May 1984. p. 132-133
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07490
Notes:
cited reference, In: The role of extension services in national development. Lusaka, Zambia: National Council for Scientific Research, May 1984. p. 68-74
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07491
Notes:
cited reference, In: The role of extension services in national development. Lusaka, Zambia: National Council for Scientific Research, May 1984. p. 122-128
Francis, Candice (author), McDaniel, Drew (author), Oliveira, Omar (author), Teuke, Molly Rose (author), Williams, Sonja (author), and Graduate Student, School of Telecommunications, Ohio University, Athens; Graduate Student, School of Telecommunications, Ohio University, Athens; Graduate Student, School of Telecommunications, Ohio University, Athens; Graduate Student, School of Telecommunications, Ohio University, Athens; Professor and Director, School of Telecommunications, Ohio University, Athens
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 71 Document Number: C03168
Notes:
Agcomm teaching, see C03165 for original, In: Sigman, Vickie A., ed. Development communications in the third world : proceedings of a midwest regional symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; April 15, 1983. Urbana, IL : College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, 1984. p. 38-43
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07494
Notes:
cited reference, In: The role of extension services in national development. Lusaka, Zambia: National Council for Scientific Research, May 1984. p. 134-137.
