The Jagodina Library was represented at IFLA World Library and Information Congress
by Suzana Tanasijević. On 19 August in the room: Auditorium
Lumière of the Lyon Convention Centre, she had a remarkable presentation of her
paper Public Library - the important link
between rural libraries.
It was a first presentation at session 140- Role of information literacy in agricultural
productivity and food security: An international perspective — Agricultural
Libraries Special Interest Group. The Jagodina Library has been participating
in this special interest group since the beginning of the project AgroLib Ja.
18 authors from Serbia, Italy, Sri Lanka, India, Netherlands,
Nigeria and the USA gave their contribution to the session. They talked about
access to information, development of information literacy, role of libraries
in education of farmers, increase of productivity, ecology and the quality of
produce.
Most of the papers were published on the IFLA
website http://conference.ifla.org/ifla80/programme-and-proceedings-full-printable#tuesday-19-august-2014
Session
140 — Role of information literacy in agricultural productivity and
food security: An international perspective — Agricultural Libraries
Special Interest Group
19 August
2014 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Auditorium Lumière | SI
·
Public
Library - the important link between rural libraries
SUZANA
TANASIJEVIĆ (Public Library “Radislav Nikčević", Jagodina, Serbia)
·
Libraries
as activators of farmer’s learning
RAMUNE
PETUCHOVAITE and UGNE LIPEIKAITE (EIFL - Electronic Information for Libraries,
Rome, Italy)
·
Influence
of Information Literacy skills of paddy farmers of Sri Lanka in accessing
agricultural information
MOHAMED
MAJEED MASHROOFA and WATHMANEL SENEWIRATHNE (South Eastern University of Sri
Lanka, Oluvil, Sri Lanka)
·
Attaining
Information Literacy : An assessment of Indian Agricultural Universities
approach
NEENA
SINGH (G B Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India)
·
Green
information chain: “Groen Kennisnet” brings agricultural knowledge from
research to the classroom, farm and business
ROB
VAN GENDEREN and JACQUELIJN RINGERSMA (Wageningen UR Library, Wageningen,
Netherlands)
·
Farmers
information literacy and awareness towards agricultural produce and food
security
SOKOYA
ABIOLA ABOSEDE, ADEFUNKE OLANIKE ALABI and FAGBALA BOLALE OLUSYEMISI (Yaba
College of Technology Library, Lagos, Nigeria)
·
Embedding
Information Literacy into the Agriculture Curriculum in Liberia: A Model
Approach for Developing Countries
MARTIN
KESSELMAN (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States)
·
Role
of AGRIS in providing global agricultural information to boost productivity and
food security
THEMBANI
MALAPELA, FABRIZIO CELLI, IMMA SUBIRATS and JOHANNES KEIZER (FAO of United
Nations, Rome, Italy)
·
Agricultural
Information Literacy Instruction Focusing on Four Ds Model of Agricultural Information
Transfer: An Overview
DEVA
ESWARA REDDY and AJAY PRATAP SINGH (Texas A&M University, College Station,
Texas, United States)
Text and photos by:
Goran Trailović
Goran Trailović
Librarian advisor
Head of the Bibliography and
Publishing Department
of the Pančevo City Library
Editor-in-chief of Čitalište
