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LIBRARY STRUCTURE : Services and schedules
1. Registration , cataloguing and classification service ;
Staff : 3 higher educated main librarians ;Timetable : 8 - 15 ;
2. Loan service - central section ; Staff : 3 higher educated
librarians;
Timetable : 8 - 12 ; 8 - 20 , during exam sessions ;
Loan service - Faculty of Horticulture branch ;
Staff : 1 middle educated librarian ; Timetable : 8- 14 ;
3. Documentation and exchange service ; Registration and
remarking service; Staff : 1 higher educated librarian ;
Translations, documentary product publication , bibliographies
and consul-ting service :Staff : 1 higher educated librarian ;
Public relations : 9 - 14 ; Staff timetable : 7,30 - 15,30
RESOURCES
Total surface - of the exploitation area - 950 s.m.
Specialists - 9 from who 8 higher educated and 1 middle educated.
Seats : students reading room - 100 ;teaching staff reading room - 40.
Publications shelves ( linear meters ) - 2484 ;
Beneficiaries : 2983 ;
Annual frequency : 168.170 requests ;
Inter--library loan : 4800 ;
COMMUNICATION NETWORK
Phone , fax , E- mail , Internet .
REFERENCE CAPABILITY :
Services provided : Bibliographical information ,
bibliographical research, translations, manual indexes,
translations summary reviews; CD-ROM ; Publishing library news
acquisitions ; Searches ; SDI searches; Consulting stand-by;
Inter-library loans ; Exchanges ; Exhibitions ; Seminars ;
Synchronized translations for audio-video materials and other
activities.
AUTOMATION
CDS -ISIS , MS-Dos , Windows , Corell Draw , Norton Commander
, FoxPro , Unix, WordPerfect.
In 1997, an extension of the network will assure the on-line
services and a connection to the local as well as national
network, viewing our participation
in part cataloguing, access to the documents of the fund aiming
to achieving the inter-library loan, drawing up of some
collective documentary products necessary to the establishments
and organisms interested that have no entry in the network.
SPECIAL INFORMATION
Collection area : Whole Earth ;Air and atmosphere ;Water and
hydrosphere; Land , terrestrial ; Plants and agriculture ;Trees
and forests ; Animals and Wildlife ; Society , culture and
human ecology ; Ethics ; Literature , arts , law , politics ;
Business and industry ; Economy ; Health and medicine ; Human
biology ; Engineering and technology.
PROSPECTIVES
In 1997 - 1998, the network was previewed to be extended. An
extension, destined to the public permanent accessw, will be
locate in the card index cabinet. The future public relation
department will be provided with a videoplayer to facilitate
the consultation of audio - visual materials by the
beneficiaries. The second one will be provided with two
Pentium ;one of them will constitute the base for CD-ROM
retrieval and will assure the connection with the internal
network ; the other one wille be used for processing and
editing all the documentary products conceived into the
library.Internet connection will allow the promotion of the
documentary products of the library all over the world as well
as the exchange of information required by any of our
beneficiaries.
This project will permit us to create a full text database
covering all the fields related to the agricultural research
projects of our University.
The same project will offer the framework for developping the
scientific activity of our students as well as their
cooperation with their colleagues in other countries by means
of long distance automated educational processes.
DOCUMENTATION, EXCHANGE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT
Existing within the library as a functionally independent
department, but finnancially dependent,the department has the
characteristics proper to a documentation and international
relations centre having the following functions:
* up to date information and documentation with specialized
publications ( including the signaling the new entries)
* promotion of the aquisitions of books and serials existing
in the world market
* entertaining the relations of publication exchange with the
existing part-ners and attracting new partners
* participation in European projects of conception of
databases in the field of agriculture, biology, ecology,
veterinary medicine and other connexe disciplines
* organization of the international seminar annually (May,26- 31)
* participation in international manifestations and workshops
aiming to in-tegrating to specific parted activities
* translation of all materials of our University destined to
the international co-operation and collaboration
* assurance of the internal and international circulation of
information existing in the own informational fund.
ANNUAL STRATEGY OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
The department will continue its collaboration with World
Wildlife Fund and with Romanian National Library .It will begin
the production of a common database in the field of agriculture
,food and agricultural products joining Bulgaria and Moldova
Republic (1997) and Albania,Czech Republic,Slovak
Republic,Poland and Hungary (1998).The year 1997 is
prognosticated for beginning our involvment in TermNet , GTW,
POINTER , ELRA,EAfT .
Unfortunately,our cooperation with FAO consists only of an
exchange of publications ,directly with the Serials Division of
FAO located in Rome, where we send the ”Lucrari stiintifice”
(Scientific Papers),series Agriculture,Horticulture,Zootechny
and Veterinary Medicine of our University. The disparition of
the Information and Documentation Office for
Food and Agriculture in Bucharest as well as the de-
centralization policy with its negative aspects resulted in
the impossibility of the university libraries specialized in
agriculture to provide references regarding the current
literature collected from research and development food and
agricultural sector and allied fields. Without a change of the
strategy concerning the centralization of the references from
the above mentioned literature by an organism having a greater
importance in the field , this cooperation cannot be
relaunched for optimal results. A work team composed by
specialists from Iasi, Romania and Chisinau, Moldova Republic
proposed a variant of centralization of the field references
according to the principle of ”small steps”.This supposes
that the references from the agricultural university libraries
have to be puttogether by a program coordinator belonging
to one of these libraries. The other references from the
agricultural research and education fields have to be
collected by a homologue coordinator, and the entire gathering
of information should be made by a national representative
institution, characterized by a dynamic rhythm, led by a person
chosen by FAO .
The number of seven references/week with which ASAS, through
the Institute of Soil Science, contributes to AGRINDEX is not
only insignificant but also unfavourable to the real Romanian
image and activity in the field.
The disfunctions that interfere the process of information
transfer , the lack of coherence and constancy of their
activity of cooperation render insig-nificant the ASAS success.
”To vegetate” is not a synonym for ”to be”, but a compromise.
The solution of an efficient cooperation in common projects
such as AGRINDEX, as well as the solution for recreating the
East-East axis in the information transfer, is the existence of
2-3 national nuclei led by co-operative, dynamic and efficient
coordinators having a professional con- science non-tributary to
certain obsolete principles.
The idea that information is a strategic product must not be
supported.
The information is a product, a merchandise that can be given
as a present, sold or bought and whose value is the more known
as it circulates more.
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