Agricultural Experiment

Station Library: Uses and Services

Liz Pagán, MLISJune 24, 2008

Objectives:

Library history and descriptionLibrary ServicesWeb page, blogs and podcast

Library History1915: The Library of the Agricultural Experiment Station was first organized by the distinguished plant pathologist, Dr. John Stevenson.

1919: the first librarian was appointed by the director of the Station, Mr. Edmundo Colón.

1954: the Library was moved to the second floor of the Biology Building where it remained until February 1969 when it was transferred to its present location.

Library History

2003: the College of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus (UPRM) and Library Director of the General Library at UPRM sign a memorandum of agreement in which the General Library would provide a Librarian to implement library modernization and automation.

http://unilib.uprm.edu

Library history

2006: The Agricultural Experiment Station Library has created a database entitled Agricultural Experiment Station Research Publication Database. This database includes the bibliographical references to recent publications of researchers at the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Puerto Rico.

http://agricultura.uprm.edu/biblioteca/aes/

Vision and mission

Vision:

Be at the forefront in technological advances in order to provide the user with the most innovative information in agricultural resources in Puerto Rico.

Mission:

Encourage research by means of the availability of resources supporting research projects. Also part of their endeavor is to provide access to the scientific and university community through a virtual library. Another priority is to offer a service of excellence to the users, by satisfying the requests and demand of information from the scientific and University community.

Goals To promote excellence and quality in the service

that the Library offers.

To expand dissemination and promotion of research, resources and service activities of the Library.

To maintain a collection that supports the research programs of the AES and of other University units.

To maintain a training and development program for the personnel.

To update the educational technology and the information systems necessary to support the users needs.

To develop a solid planning process.

To implement a permanent evaluation system that would support a decision process.

Library description

Collection 2003-2006:

Books: 14,241

Scientific Documents and Panphlets:

315,445

Bind Volumes: 22,742

Active print serials (titles): 97

Active electronic serials (titles):

18,303

Databases: 60

Library description:

Personnel

Liz Pagán, library director

Luis Méndez, Auxiliar Librarian

Elaine Hernández, Auxiliar Librarian

Betzaida Rivera, Student Assistant

Jorge Malavé, Student Assistant

Library services:

Days and hour opperations:

Monday - Friday 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.Saturday and Sunday: Closed

Library services:

The Library mainly serves the scientific community of the Institution. It also provides information to professors and university students, personnel of the Service of Agricultural Extension, investigators of governmental and private agencies, students of primary and secondary schools, and to all persons interested in the agricultural affairs.

Library services:

1. Specialize instruction for research in the agricultural filed and other areas.

2. Photocopy of documents.

3. Loan of library resources (books, documents and others).

4. Library instruction in database and electronic resources uses and services.

5. Interlibrary Loan.

Library services:6. Services offered by phone or email.

7. Color or black and white print out of documents.

8. Programming the use of meeting facilities: Annex Room, Conference Room y Teledis Room for professional activities.

9. Library instruction to professors and students of library services.

10. The creation of bibliographic reference list of special topics for users or investigators.

RSS

Really Simple Syndicationis a web syndication

protocol primarily used by news websites and weblogs

Format for delivering summaries of regularly changing web content

Other definitionsRich Site SummaryRDF Site Summary

Tecnology:Tecnology: Best things in life are freeBest things in life are free

• Open source Open source software software

• Country experiencesCountry experiences

• RSS feedsRSS feeds

Blog or weblog

A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser.

http://blogs.uprm.edu/infoblogeea

Library podcast

Podcasting is a method of publishing or distributing multimedia content (i.e. audio and video) over the Web. Podcasts are made available through syndication feeds, which enable new content, or episodes, to be automatically delivered to a personal computer.

http://infocast.uprm.edu

Web page

• Is the access key. Is the access key.

• Fast connection to virtual Fast connection to virtual services.services.

• Didactic guides. Didactic guides.

• Person to person contact. Person to person contact.

http://www.uprm.edu/agricultura/biblioteca

Prof. Liz M. PagánDirector

Agricultural Experimental Station Library

Tel. (787)-767-9705 Fax (787)-767-7735

ext. 2057, 2055

lpagan@uprm.eduliz@eea.uprm.edu