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Pamela André Michal Demeš Tomaz Bartol Aino Kuik Marcela Chrenekova Ilona Dobelniece Ivanka Demireva Ivo Hoch Ctibor Perlin Krystyna Kocznorowska Participants Time schedule Photo documentation < Back |
Sixth U.S./Central & Eastern European
Agricultural Library Roundtable and IAALD Conference
Michal DEMEŠ Director, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information for Agriculture Samova 9, 950 10 Nitra SLOVAK REPUBLIC Phone: 421-87-522185 or 42-87-515829 FAX: 421-87-525275 e-mail : demes@nr.sanet.sk Dear "Roundtable Family", dear guests! First of all, I would like to express thanks to the organizers for the opportunity to present here my recent ideas. I am very glad that we have met again. I am sure that our work in this conference will be fruitful and will bring us new ideas to develop our cooperation. All the history of Roundtables has begun here in United States in 1991, in 1992 it was held in Budapest, in 1993 in Warsaw, 1994 in Nitra, 1995 in Prague, and after that, in 1996, we had almost all the European members of the Roundtable Family back in Nitra for the Agroinfos conference. Now it is once more in the United States, where we will consider our future forms of cooperation. To the outstanding basis of cooperation between agricultural libraries and information centres that was built by National Agricultural Library in Beltsvile, FAO UN has helped by creating its Subregional Office for Central and Eastern Europe in Budapest last year. Its purpose is to build a 5 person expert team from which one - "information systems officer" will be responsible for developing library and information systems in Central and Eastern Europe. This area consists of these 22 countries: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, and Bulgaria. Our work at Roundtable conferences is also a basis for developing cooperation of our countries with the IAALD organization. Recently in Nitra the IAALD Central and Eastern Europan Chamber was founded, thanks to close cooperation with such personalities as Jan Van der Burg, Anton Mangstl, Vjacheslav Pozdnyakov, Jerzy Rasinski and other colleagues. Also the title of Tucson meeting "Linking people and resources in a changing world" draws us into the developing national information systems built on a subregional basis, using fragments of world information systems architecture. I am sure that close cooperation of IAALD with its Central and Eastern European Chapter with NAL Beltsville, FAO, and other libraries, information centres and vendors could be the right way to facilitate subregional cooperation, Roundtable results achieved by NAL Beltsville, and World Agriculture Information Centre conception created by FAO significantly helps to develop cooperation of all world agricultural information centres libraries and vendors. All this, however, requires long-term and systematic work. Not only on the level of theory but also on the level of concrete steps we would stress, for further development of cooperation. The young team in Nitra as a contribution to this development has taken some steps: 1) Together with FAO we organized the Agroinfos conference with the participation of 13 countries, during which the Central and Eastern European IAALD Chapter was founded, 2) Created a homepage for the Chapter, 3) Edited the first signal volume of IAALD News in English and Russian, and with your help wants to continue in this work, 4) Helped to increase the number of IAALD members, 5) In cooperation with IAALD and FAO will organize an international workshop under the title "Developing practical skills in Internet and CDROM Technology in September 1997. Now, let me show you some Web pages that demonstrate this work. Thank you for your attention. |
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