The IFLA Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group in association with the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) invites papers for presentation at IFLA General Conference, Helsinki, Finland in August 2012. Theme Social networking for agricultural research, education, and extension service: an international perspective Social networking is a hackneyed phrase. It ...
The Zambia Agricultural Research for Development Information Network (ZAR4DIN) project was launched in 2010, with the main goal of facilitating access to Institutional repositories of Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) information resources through a national AR4D portal. The project was funded by the Forum for Agricultural Research in ...
The OEKCS team at FAO with the assistance of MIMOS Berhad in Malaysia have released VocBench Version 1.3, a powerful open-source ontology editor and workflow manager. This version consolidates a number of critical usability fixes identified during trials with an exciting new international, multi-lingual, globally-dispersed user group. This new group of ...
The 23rd session of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rightsended on 2nd December 2011. WIPO Member States made significant progress towards achieving a global set of copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives. This is welcomed by the: International Federation of Library Associations and ...
EIFL-FOSS has produced a Library FOSS Advocacy Resource. It is aimed at: Library directors, who need to be aware of all of the costs and benefits in order to make a decision on deploying a FOSS tool, or to advocate for that decision to be made by institutional managers; Librarians ...
