{"id":11283,"date":"1998-01-02T22:03:28","date_gmt":"1998-01-02T22:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/?p=11283"},"modified":"2018-03-02T22:13:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T22:13:25","slug":"acdc-news-issue-98-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/acdc-news-issue-98-06\/","title":{"rendered":"ACDC News \u2013 Issue 98-06"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Note this new URL\u00a0for the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>http:\/\/web.aces.uiuc.edu\/agcomdb\/docctr.html<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"item2\"><\/a><strong>You will find more power and speed\u00a0in your online searches these days, thanks to new major improvements\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0in\u00a0 the Center web site.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Here are some of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New interface.\u00a0 When you begin the real search, you can go quickly and easily to the thesaurus for subject terms.\u00a0 Or you can go directly to your request for lists of citations according to title, author, subject and other criteria.\u00a0 This interface also permits you to ask for help and specify the number of citations that you want to get.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Greater searching power.\u00a0 When you search on a given \u201csubject term\u201d you automatically call up all documents that are subject indexed under that term, from the thesaurus. In addition, you identify all other documents which contain that term in the title.\u00a0 Documents are listed chronologically, starting with most recent documents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And when you pull up a given citation, you can also search quickly on any authors, subject terms or<br \/>\njournals that appear within the citation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greater speed.\u00a0 You will find that search operations occur more quickly than in the past.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We hope these improvements serve you well.\u00a0 Please let us know if you have questions or suggestions.<br \/>\nOther\u00a0 refinements are under way, including improved \u201chelp\u201d sections.<br \/>\nSpecial thanks to Jeremy Todd and Floyd Davenport of the Information Technology and Communication<br \/>\nServices unit for their valuable assistance.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"item3\"><\/a><b>Interested in communications related to water quality?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>If so, you may wish to see a research report that arrived recently at the Center:<\/p>\n<p>Peter Nowak, Garrett O\u2019Keefe, Claude Bennett, Susan Anderson and Craig Trumbo. Communication and<br \/>\nadoption evaluation of USDA water quality demonstration projects:\u00a0 evaluation report.\u00a0 Cooperative State<br \/>\nResearch, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.\u00a0 October<br \/>\n1997.\u00a0 43 pp.<\/p>\n<p>This evaluation focused upon USDA demonstration projects designed to \u201caccelerate voluntary adoption of<br \/>\nagricultural practices that protect surface and groundwater, while maintaining farm and ranch productivity<br \/>\nand profitability.\u201d\u00a0 Findings featured effects of eight projects located in California, Florida, Maryland,<br \/>\nMinnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"item4\"><\/a><strong>Other samples of new documents\u00a0in the collection:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Mark Imerman and L. L. Libby. Web decision maker: an administrative tool to aid in the conversion of Extension publications for Internet delivery.\u00a0 Rural Data Project, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.\u00a0 March 1998.\u00a0 65 pp.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan Hilchey and Nathan Leonard. Cultivating farm, neighbor and community relations: creative approaches for reduced farm-related land-use conflict.\u00a0 Community Agriculture Development Series, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.\u00a0 1996.\u00a0 15 pp.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"item5\"><\/a><b>Professional meetings scheduled<\/b>.<\/h3>\n<p>Here are the approaching meetings of several professional agricultural communicator organizations:<\/p>\n<p>May 28-30<br \/>\nEast Region Meeting, National Association of Farm Broadcasters,\u00a0at Indianapolis, Indiana.<br \/>\nContact:\u00a0 Gary Truitt at 317-843-9300<\/p>\n<p>June 6-9<br \/>\nAnnual Institute, Cooperative Communicators Association,\u00a0Santa Fe, New Mexico.<br \/>\nContact:\u00a0 Raymond Crouch or Stephanie Smith at 817-548-5206<\/p>\n<p>June 14-17<br \/>\nNational Extension Technology Conference at St. Louis, Missouri.<br \/>\nContact:\u00a0 Dave Klostermann at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dave_klostermann@ccmail.umsl.edu\">dave_klostermann@ccmail.umsl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>June 25-27<br \/>\nWest Region Meeting, National Association of Farm Broadcasters, at Choteau, Montana.<br \/>\nContact: Brent Stanghelle at 406-761-7600<\/p>\n<p>July 12-14<br \/>\nSummer Seminar, Agricultural Relations Council at Winston-Salem,\u00a0North Carolina.<br \/>\nContact:\u00a0 Paul Weller at 202-785-6710<\/p>\n<p>July 14-19<br \/>\nAnnual Conference, Agricultural Communicators in Education, at Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California.<br \/>\nContact:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:rmseid@ucdavis.edu\">rmseid@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"item6\"><\/a><b>Is that bull safe?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>A man climbed over a farmer\u2019s fence to pick some wildflowers when he noticed a bull in a field nearby.<br \/>\n\u201cHey,\u201d he called to the farmer.\u00a0 \u201cIs that bull safe?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cHe\u2019s a whole lot safer than you are,\u201d replied the farmer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Author unknown)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"item7\"><\/a><b>Best regards and good searching.<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Please let us know if we can help you find information and\/or if you can suggest documents that we might add to this collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note this new URL\u00a0for the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center: http:\/\/web.aces.uiuc.edu\/agcomdb\/docctr.html You will find more power and speed\u00a0in your online searches these days, thanks to new major improvements\u00a0 \u00a0in\u00a0 the Center web site. 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