Conference Session 205

Social networking for agricultural research, education, and extension service: an international perspective

Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group

Congress track 1: Open access and digital resources.

16 August 2012 10:45 - 12:45 | Room: Session Room 3

• Knotting and networking agricultural information services through Web 2.0 to create an informed farming community: a case of Zimbabwe
  COLLENCE TAKAINGENHAMO CHISITA (Harare Polytechnic School of Information Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe)
• Agricultural rural libraries in Serbia in the era of Information Technology
  VESNA CRNKOVIC (Public Library, "Radislav Nikčević", Jagodina, Serbia)
• Using social networking sites, blogs and online news contents in the agriculture research: a citation analysis
  KAYVAN KOUSHA (Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Technology, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom) and MAHSHID ABDOLI (National Library of Iran, Tehran)
• Establishing connections and networking: the role of social media in agricultural research in Nigeria
  ABIOLA ABOSEDE SOKOYA, (Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Nigeria), NIKE FEHINTOLA ONIFADE (Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria) and ADEFUNKE OLANIKE ALABI (University of Lagos Library, Akoka, Nigeria)
• The vision of agriculture network community information integration: a case study of China agriculture sustainable development information service mobile interconnection
  XIAOWEN DING (Jiangsu Provincial Administrative Institute, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China) and LI QING (Guangdong Provincial Administrative Institute, Guang Zhou, Guangdong Province, China)
• Creating global village of agricultural practices through Social networking: opportunities and threats
  AJAY PRATAP SINGH and MAYANK YUVARAJ (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India)