The Research Special Interest Group of Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE) has introduced a new web site.\u00a0 It will serve ACE members and others who are interested in conducting communications research and disseminating research findings. Pages within the site will feature lists of ACE communications researchers, current research projects, events, awards, related sites and other items. The URL is\u00a0www.ext.wvu.edu\/rsig\u00a0<\/a>and you can reach it easily through the \u201cOther web sites\u201d page of the Documentation Center site you are viewing now.<\/p>\n We have added them to the Center during recent weeks:<\/p>\n You can view some powerful documentary photography through a collection offered on the American Memory site of the U.S. Library of Congress.\u00a0 Thousands of historical rural photographs from the Farm Security Administration project of the 1930s are now available at the following URL:http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/fsowhome.html<\/a>. You can search the collection by subject, photographer or geography.<\/p>\n Faculty members at the Muresk Institute of Agriculture, Western Australia, are offering rural media courses in innovative formats and venues.<\/p>\n They offered an Intensive Rural Media Course on April 1-4 as a \u201cblock\u201d unit, plus two one-day follow-up workshops. This schedule accommodated full-time students during a week free of other classes, as well as other persons unable to attend normal weekly class sessions.<\/p>\n The faculty also offered a rural radio course for two weeks in early July. Next comes a rural television and video production course.\u00a0 It will extend over three weekends during August to September, plus one full week during late September to early October.<\/p>\n These offerings serve Muresk students, plus others (such as promotion officers for rural organizations and community groups) who wish to learn about rural media. Details are available the from news page of the Muresk web site:\u00a0\u00a0www.curtin.edu.au\/curtin\/muresk<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here are the approaching meetings of some professional agricultural communicator organizations:<\/p>\n August 18 Oct 31-Nov 3 for this web site.\u00a0 The new URL for the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center is:<\/p>\n <web.aces.uiuc.edu\/agcomdb\/docctr.html<\/a>><\/p>\n 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":" New web site for agricultural communications researchers.\u00a0 The Research Special Interest Group of Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE) has introduced a new web site.\u00a0 It will serve ACE members and others who are interested in conducting communications research and disseminating research findings. Pages within the site will feature lists of ACE communications researchers, current research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acdc_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11308,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303\/revisions\/11308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/a>Here are some new documents about technologies for agricultural information.<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\n\u201cCommunicating agricultural information in remote places\u201d
\n\u201cNew information technologies in agriculture\u201d<\/li>\n
\n<\/a>View the depression years in rural America.<\/b><\/h3>\n
\n<\/a>Innovative formats for teaching rural communications.\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
\n<\/a>Professional meetings approaching.<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nAgri-marketing seminar on \u201cSegmentation: taking aim on the customer\u201d at Renaissance Hotel, St. Louis Airport, St. Louis, Missouri.\u00a0 Offered by National Agri-Marketing Association.
\nContact:\u00a0agrimktg@nama.org<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCommunications Clinic of the American Agricultural Editors\u2019 Association at Hyatt Regency St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
\nContact:\u00a0aaea@flash.net<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>A reminder: change your bookmark.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
\n<\/a>Best regards and good searching.\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n