08.00 - 09.00                    B r e a k f a s t

                                  09.00 - 09.10                    Opening of the workshop Michal Demes, Director of ISTIA


                           Section I. International Organizations and Associations in Building
                           Transnational Information Systems


                                  09.10 - 09.25                   The Cooperation of the Slovak Republic with FAO and its
                                                                          Integration to EuropeanUnion
                                                                          Representative of Ministry of Agriculture, Slovak Republic

            09.25 - 10.00                   WAICENT /World Agricultural Information Centre/ - FAO’s
                                                    Information Gateway
                                                    Dr. Anton Mangstl, Director of Library and Documentation
                                                    Systems Division, FAO, Rome

            10.00 - 10.20                   IAALD -the Cooperative Platform for Policy and Training of
                                                    Central and East European Countries
                                                    Dr. Jan van der Burg, President of IAALD

            10.20 - 10.50                    C o f f e e  b r e a k

            10.50 - 11.10                    FAO´s Fisheries Information Networks
                                                     Z.S.Karnicki,FAO Subregional Office for Central and Eastern
                                                     Europe, Budapest

            11.10 - 11.30                    Information FAO used in Agricultural Science in Russia
                                                     V. Pozdnyakov, Central Scientific Agricultural Library, Moscow,
                                                     Russia

            11.30 - 11.45                    Presentation of ISTIA activities
                                                     Michal Demeš, ISTIA Nitra

            12.00 - 13.00                    L u n c h


           Section II. Activities of National Agricultural Information Institutions


            13.00 -13.15                      AGRIS Organization in France
                                                      Therese Babilliot, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 
                                                      INRA, Versailles, France

            13.15 - 13.30                     Linkage of IIS System to the International AGRIN System
                                                      Including Indexing by Agrovoc
                                                      Pavla  Stancikova, CEIT, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

            13.30 - 13.40                     Polish Automated Databases of Central Agricultural Library
                                                      Jerzy Rasinski, Central Agricultural Library,Warsaw, Poland

            13.40 - 13.50                     Activity of Library in the Development of Education
                                                      Ivanka Demireva,Thracian University, Bulgaria

            13.50 -14.05                      Information Technology Tools For Agriculture
                                                      Prof. Mieczyslav Muraszkiewicz, Institute for Computer and
                                                      Information Engineering, Warsaw, Poland

            14.05 - 14.25                     Presentation of AgroWebClub Nitra
                                                      Juraj Gogora, AGRIS/CARIS FAO UN Centre, ISTIA, Nitra,
                                                      Slovak Republic

            14.25 - 15.00                     D i s c u s s i o n

            15.00 - 15.30                     C o f f e e  b r e a k

            15.30 - 15.45                     The Using AGRIS FAO in Ukraine
                                                      Tatiana Deribon, Ukrainian Institute of Scientific,
                                                      Technical and Economical Information, Kiev, Ukraine

            15.45 - 16.00                     Work of National AGRIS/CARIS Centre of Latvia
                                                      Ilona Dobelniece, Fundamental Library Latvian University of
                                                      Agriculture, Jelgava, Latvia

            16.00- 16.30                      Country Report
                                                      Ctibor Perlín, Institute of Agricultural and Food Information
                                                      The Activities of Central Agriculturaland Forestry
                                                      Library within the Framework of the FAO
                                                      Ivo Hoch, Central Agricultural and Foresty Library, Prague,
                                                      Czech Republic

            16.30 - 16.45                     Building Information System of Reference Libraries for Agriculture
                                                      in Croatia
                                                      Dr. Nikola Kezic, Faculty of Agriculture University of Zagreb,
                                                      Croatia

            16.45 - 17.00                     Country Reports Representatives of agricultural libraries from:
                                                      Albania - Heroina Deliu,
                                                      Moldavia - Ludmila Costin,
                                                      Romania - Gilda Draganescu

            17.00 - 18.00                     D i s c u s s i o n

            19.00 - 22.00                     W e l c o m e  P a r t y