A new partnership with the National Association of Farm Broadcasters (U.S.) will permit the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center to provide more information about farm broadcasting.<\/p>\n
This recently authorized project will permit searching the NAFB archives to identify news articles, publications, audiotapes and other materials of broad interest.\u00a0 These NAFB materials are housed within the University of Illinois Archives.\u00a0 Selected items will be processed into the Center collection for easier identification by rural broadcasters, agricultural communications students, teachers, researchers and other online searchers.<\/p>\n
NAFB Historian Dix Harper and Assistant Historian Marla Behrens will coordinate the joint project with members of the Documentation Center staff.\u00a0 Work in the archives is expected to begin this fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you help me get copies of these documents?\u201d a searcher from several hundred miles away asked us, by e-mail, during a recent Wednesday.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t available to her locally.\u00a0 And she needed them by Friday.<\/p>\n
Photocopies of the materials reached her Friday, with help from prompt staff follow-up and overnight delivery.\u00a0 We are pleased to provide this kind of service on a reasonable, cost-recovery basis.<\/p>\n
You can gain easy access to texts or abstracts of more than 70 papers presented June 15-17 at the National Extension Technology Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.\u00a0 When you enter the conference web site (http:\/\/outreach.missouri.edu\/netc98\/netc98_schedule.html<\/a>) you can see the titles of more than 100 sessions. Of those titles, more than 70 are linked to session manuscripts submitted by presenters.<\/p>\n Topics of the conference involved a wide range of information technologies for distance education, in-service teaching and Extension program delivery.\u00a0 A few examples:<\/p>\n \u201cUsing a flatbed scanner to digitize insects, plants and other stuff\u201d Paul Hixson, administrative coordinator of the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, was one of the presenters.\u00a0 He and a University of Illinois associate, John Tubbs, presented a paper on \u201cInteractive broadcasting on the web.\u201d<\/p>\n Also, Floyd Davenport (who has been instrumental in making our collection available online and who is presently on short term assignment in Zambia) co-authored a paper on “Managing large document databases” that was delivered by a colleague, Milind Basole.\u00a0 Our Agricultural Communications Documentation Center was one of the case study examples used in this presentation.<\/p>\n Here are the approaching meetings of several professional agricultural communicator organizations:<\/p>\n June 25-27 July 3-8 July 12-14 July 14-19 For this web site.\u00a0 The new URL for the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center is:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHow agents and researchers are using computers and the Internet\u201d
\n\u201cRetrofitting Extension programming for the WWW: a look at Ag Decision
\nMaker\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Professional meetings scheduled.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nWest Region Meeting, National Association of Farm Broadcasters at Choteau, Montana.
\nContact:\u00a0 Brent Stanghelle at 406-761-7600<\/p>\n
\nInternational Federation of Agricultural Journalists at Bogensee, Germany.
\nContact:\u00a0\u00a0hamburg@cpo-hanser.de<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSummer seminar, Agricultural Relations Council at Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
\nContact:\u00a0Paul Weller at\u00a0ARConline@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAnnual conference, Agricultural Communicators in Education, at Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California.
\nContact: rmseid@ucdavis.edu<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>A reminder: change your bookmark.\u00a0 <\/b><\/h3>\n