A Progress Report on the Agricultural Sciences Information Network.

Institution	National Agricultural Library (USDA), Washington, DC.
Titel	A Progress Report on the Agricultural Sciences Information Network.
Quelle	(1971), (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Agriculture; Information Centers; Information Needs; Information Networks; Information Services; Information Systems; Libraries; Research; Research Projects + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Landwirtschaft; Information need; Informationsbedürfnis; Informationsnetz; Informationstätigkeit; Library; Bibliothek; Forschung; Forschungsvorhaben
Abstract	In October 1970, the Agricultural Sciences Information Network (ASIN) Committee was established by the joint landgrant/USDA Agriculture Research Policy Advisory Committee (ARPAC). The ASIN Committee was directed to review various network concepts as a means of improving information services to professional agriculturalists in the private and public sectors and to develop detailed plans for implementing a cooperative information system. The Committee stressed the improvement of service to the ultimate user of research information. Building upon recommendations of an earlier study by the Interuniversity Communications Council (EDUCOM), the ASIN Committee has recommended that the National Agricultural Library (NAL) serve as the coordinator in a network plan. NAL's function would be to continue to assist other information services in providing less common documentary materials, and to coordinate the plans for developing services in greater depth and breadth. The network as recommended can be described in terms of five broad components: (1) Libraries; (2) Research and development in information science and services; (3) Information analysis centers; (4) Integrated knowledge services (a kind of directory and referral activity); and (5) International cooperation. (Author/SJ)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC