Fourth U.S./Central & Eastern European Agricultural Library Roundtable and IAALD Conference
September 26th - September 30th, 1994

Country reports  
    Albania   
    Belarus  
    Czech Republic 
    Estonia  
    Hungary  
    Latvia  
    Lithuania  
    Poland  
    Romania  
    Slovenia  
    Slovak Republic 
        Croatia 
    United States of America 

Speakers 

Organizational Committee 

Sites 
    Nitra 
    Banská Štiavnica 
    Topolcianky castle 
    Matica Slovenká and the  
    Slovak National Library, 
    Martin



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POLAND 


Jerzy Rasinski 
Jerzy Rasinski 
Director 


Danuta Pielak 
Danuta Pielak 
Deputy Director 

Central Agricultural Library 
Krakowskie 
Przedmiescie 66 
00-950 Warsaw, 
Poland 
Phone: 48-22-266041 
FAX: 48-22-260157 

CAL Poland obtained connection to the Internet. 1994's statistics of computers connected to the Internet in Poland is approximately 5,000. Each month around 250 new accessions are registered. Among them are 6 Polish Academies of Agriculture, 10 branch institutes and agribusinesses. All of them cooperate with CAL on maintaining the central database SIGZ (National Information System on Monitoring Food Economy). Eighty eight percent of CAL's users are students and academic staff. Technical possibilities and the financial costs of the Internet were outlined.