Belarus Agricultural Library becomes FAO depository
Minsk, 4 October. Representatives of the FAO, the United Nations Office in Belarus, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus, managers of agricultural research centres and institutes of higher education, and directors of leading Belarusian libraries took part in an official presentation to mark the Belarus Agricultural Library's (BelAL) accession to the network of FAO deposit libraries.
In July this year the Belarus Agricultural Library (BelAL) became an official Depository Library of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The system of FAO depository libraries dealing with collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of information about nutrition, food and agriculture has been established to make FAO materials and publications available to the public of member countries. There are already more than 300 depositories around the world.
FAO documents (in English) covering food-related issues, agriculture, forestry, fishery, agricultural economy, veterinary and statistics are now available in the Belarus Agricultural Library.
At the presentation, participants heard reports by the leading specialists of the Library on:
More on: BelAL; AGRIS; AGLINET; Agroweb Belarus
Story contributed by Marina Khomenko
Tags: agricultural information belarus fao
In July this year the Belarus Agricultural Library (BelAL) became an official Depository Library of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The system of FAO depository libraries dealing with collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of information about nutrition, food and agriculture has been established to make FAO materials and publications available to the public of member countries. There are already more than 300 depositories around the world.
FAO documents (in English) covering food-related issues, agriculture, forestry, fishery, agricultural economy, veterinary and statistics are now available in the Belarus Agricultural Library.
At the presentation, participants heard reports by the leading specialists of the Library on:
- BelAL as the FAO Depository Library in Belarus
- AgroWeb Belarus in the AgroWeb Central and Eastern Europe Network
- AGRIS/CARIS - International Information System for Agricultural Sciences and Technology / International Information System on Agricultural Research Projects
- AGLINET International Document Delivery Project
More on: BelAL; AGRIS; AGLINET; Agroweb Belarus
Story contributed by Marina Khomenko
Tags: agricultural information belarus fao
Labels: aginfo
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