{"id":11314,"date":"1998-01-03T22:39:49","date_gmt":"1998-01-03T22:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/?p=11314"},"modified":"2018-03-03T22:47:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T22:47:52","slug":"acdc-news-issue-98-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/acdc-news-issue-98-13\/","title":{"rendered":"ACDC News \u2013 Issue 98-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>New documents from ACE conference.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Nearly a dozen research papers from the 1998 Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE) conference in California are being processed into the Center.\u00a0 Here are some of the titles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cResearch magazine readership interests: Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Research Highlights\u201d by Ned Browning, Mississippi State University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBeyond blue sky predictions: what the emerging facts really say about new information technologies and rural development\u201d by Eric A. Abbott and Allan Schmidt, Iowa State University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cUsing the Internet to conduct college credit courses developed from extension materials\u201d by James M. Nehiley, University of Florida.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFarmer participation in agroforestry research and extension: some lessons from Thailand and the Philippines\u201d by Lulu Rodriguez, Iowa State University.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAt the push of a button: using electronic technology for professional development\u201d by James C. Segers, Lawrence A. Lippke and William Watson, Texas A&amp;M University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to Professors Kristina Boone of Kansas State University, Sherrie Whaley of Ohio State University and others who helped provide these papers to the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"item2\"><\/a><b>Can you find much here at the Center about communications in agricultural development?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>You bet.\u00a0 For example, in parentheses you can see the number of citations that come onto your monitor when you search under various subject terms.<br \/>\nExamples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cdevelopment\u201d (1,870 documents)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cdevelopment communication\u201d (715 documents)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cdevelopment issues\u201d (267 documents)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cdevelopment programs\u201d (405 documents)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cinternational\u201d (493 documents)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These documents involve communications in countries throughout the world.\u00a0 Please let us know when you see documents of interest that are not available to you locally.\u00a0 We will help you gain access to them.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"item3\"><\/a><b>Recent inquiry about graduate study programs.<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI am looking for an agricultural journalism or agricultural communications graduate college,\u201d said an online searcher from the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0 She asked where such study programs are offered in the U.S. or elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Can you help provide an answer to this question? If so, please get in touch with Jim Evans at the Documentation Center (Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:evansj@uiuc.edu\">evansj@uiuc.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"item4\"><\/a><b>Agricultural Relations Council now in Kansas City area.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>The affiliation between ARC and the National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) is now complete.\u00a0 Eldon White and Kathleen Montgomery are the primary staff contacts for ARC.\u00a0 Here is how you can reach the organization now:<\/p>\n<p>Agricultural Relations Council<br \/>\n11020 King Street, Suite 205<br \/>\nOverland Park, KS 66210 USA<\/p>\n<p>Phone:\u00a0 913\/491-6500<br \/>\nFax:\u00a0 913\/491-6502<br \/>\nE-mail:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:arc@nama.org\">arc@nama.org<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"item5\"><\/a><b>Professional meetings approaching.\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Here are the approaching meetings of two U.S. agricultural communicator organizations:<\/p>\n<p>Nov 1-3<br \/>\nAnnual Meeting and Communications Clinic of American Agricultural\u00a0Editors\u2019 Association at Hyatt Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri.<br \/>\nInformation:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ageditors.com\">www.ageditors.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nov 11-15<br \/>\nAnnual Convention of National Association of Farm Broadcasters at\u00a0Westin Crown Center, Kansas City, Missouri.<br \/>\nInformation:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:nafboffice@aol.com\">nafboffice@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"item6\"><\/a><b>Do you have a communications-related meeting to announce?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>You are invited to contact us about meetings that deal with the communications aspects of agriculture, food, natural resources and related topics.\u00a0 We will be glad to help announce them.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"itme7\"><\/a><b>Those ornery hedges, trees and pedestrians.<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>The following explanations come from insurance forms filled out by people who were asked to summarize their traffic accidents:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had been shopping for plants all day and was on my way home.\u00a0 At the intersection, a hedge sprang up, obscuring my vision.\u00a0 I did not see the other car.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cComing home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I didn\u2019t have.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cA pedestrian hit me and went under my car.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"item8\"><\/a><b>Best regards and good searching.\u00a0<\/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>New documents from ACE conference.\u00a0\u00a0 Nearly a dozen research papers from the 1998 Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE) conference in California are being processed into the Center.\u00a0 Here are some of the titles: \u201cResearch magazine readership interests: Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Research Highlights\u201d by Ned Browning, Mississippi State University. \u201cBeyond blue sky predictions: [&hellip;]<\/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-11314","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\/11314","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=11314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11315,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions\/11315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}