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UMMARY OF INFORMATION SERVICESOFFERED BY
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IBRARY AND DOCUMENTATION SYSTEMS DIVISION (GIL)OF
FAO
World Agricultural Information Centre.
A corporate platform of FAO for the acquisition, updating, management and dissemination of agricultural information:
A service which prepares, organises, stores and disseminates textual, bibliographic and hypermedia information:
International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology.
Current Agricultural Research Information System.
FAO Documentation Current Bibliography.
Monthly updated databases containing documents and publications produced by or on behalf of FAO; Also available on the Internet and on CD-ROM).
To browse now on-line FAODOC click here.
FAO’s Photo Library – including photos, audio, video and graphics – available also as hypermedia files on the Internet.
A project of "a library without walls" which will give the users via Internet immediate access to the wealth of information resources stored in FAO - including full-text documents – and provide links to all other relevant institutions, publishers and governmental sources.
A database containing over one million time series records covering international statistics in the domains of agriculture, including fisheries, forestry, food, trade and demography; Available on the Internet, CD-ROM and diskettes, as well as in printed yearbooks and other special publications.
A service which provides access to the specialised information systems:
FAO Emergency Prevention System for transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases: Livestock Diseases and Desert Locust Management.
Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture;
Regular bulletins on food crop production and markets at global, regional or country level.
Domestic Animal Diversity Information System;
A communication tool for the Global Programme for the Management of Farm Animal Genetic Resources – AnGR.
Founded in Rome in 1905, it contains now over one million volumes:
Classical Library Services
Reference and information services; selective dissemination of information – SDI; loans; microfiche reproduction of FAO documents; acquisition assistance; etc.
On-line Services on the Internet:
To access now the catalogue click here.
To see the Guide of the FAO’s databases click here
Relevant full text documents and citations of publications and documents produced by FAO in specialised subject areas of interest.
Inter-Library Loans
David Lubin Memorial Library acts as the International Coordinating Centre for the Agricultural Libraries Network – AGLINET – aimed at the inter-library loans.
