26 July 2011

Open Session of Agricultural Libraries SIG — IFLA Conference 2011

The Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group cordially invites you to its session (#78) at IFLA Conference in San Juan on

Information systems for indigenous knowledge in agriculture

Date: Sunday 14 August 2011 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Exhibition Hall A

In this session, papers to be presented include:

• Indigenous knowledge in agriculture: American Indian tribes and Māori communities support indigenous agricultural lifeways
  LORIENE ROY and VIRGINIA LUEHRSEN (School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States) and SPENCER LILLEY (Massey University Library, Palmerston North, New Zealand)
• Promoting learning process to produce organic vegetables with special reference to one village in rural Northeast Thailand
  CHANTHANA WECH-O-SOTSAKDA (Information Science, Faculty of Informatics, Maha Sarakham University, Thailand)
• Documenting and disseminating agricultural indigenous knowledge for sustainable food security: the efforts of agricultural research libraries in Nigeria
  ABIOLA ABIOYE (Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria), YETUNDE ZAID and HALIMA S. EGBERONGBE (University Library, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria)
• Role of libraries in promoting the dissemination and documentation of indigenous agricultural information: case study of Zimbabwe
  COLLENCE.TAKAINGENHAMO CHISITA (Harare Polytechnic Faculty of Information Science, Harare, Zimbabwe)
• Indigenous knowledge in agriculture: an overview
  DEVA ESWARA REDDY (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States)

Hope to See you soon in Puerto Rico!

Deva Eswara Reddy
Convener of the Agricultural Libraries SIG

Agricultural Libraries