International Programs for Developing Countries

Programas internacionales para países de desarrollo

Jaron Porciello, Mann LibrarySeptember 25, 2009 Turrialba, Costa Rica

With special thanks to Nicole Joos

Mann Library

Cornell University International activities at-a-glance

Presentation Objectives

Current international activities and partnerships

• TEEAL• AGORA• ITOCA • International Reference

Services• Cornell Center for

Transnational Learning• IICA

Innovative technology programs

• Google Books • DataSTAR• VIVO

TEEAL TODAY!

TEEAL THEN…

• Digital collection of agriculture-related top scientific journals. Thousands of full-text PDF articles.

• No internet. Flexible technology; works on both a local area network or a standalone computer.

• Updated annually; powerful archive of information

TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library)

install LanTEEAL

retrieve articlesServer hosting LanTEEAL 2.0

LanTEEAL 2.0 drive

At client computers you:• install TEEAL from server • search and browse index database locally• retrieve full-text articles from server

TEEAL on your local area network

TEEAL in Latin America

Learning and teaching Bolivia• FDTA (Fund para el Desarrollo Tec. Ag.)

Costa Rica• CATIE • IICA• Universidad de Earth

Dominican Republic • Universidad de Pedro H. Urea

Ecuador • Escuela Politecnica del Ejercito (ESPE)

Guyana• University of Guyana

Honduras • Zamorano

Jamaica• Ministry of Agriculture• CASE, Port Antonio

Peru• Universidad La Molina• Universidad Nacional del Centro del Peru

Surinam•University of Suriname

AGORA

• AGORA offers a wealth of information for free or for a moderate price. Currently, there are over 1,300 full-text journals

• United Nations journal access programs HINARI and OARE focus on health and environment, respectively.

ITOCA partnership

• ITOCA conducts in-country trainings on e-resource programs like TEEAL and AGORA.

• Over 1,500 information professionals and librarians in more than 25 countries in Africa have been trained by ITOCA.

• Developed a certification program and maintains an online user-community.

Increasing Demand for Agricultural Production =

Need for current scientific information

• United Nations predicts world population will grow by more than 25 million each year to more than 9 billion by 2050

• Rising income and urbanization will drive up the demand for high protein and healthier food ( meat and dairy)

• The US government plans to increase the share of bio-fuels in total fuel consumption from 3 % to 20 % in 10 years

Slide courtesy of Vern Gracen

International Reference Services Program

Mann Library receives grant-funding to provide reference, instruction, and resource support assistance to PhD programs at the University of Ghana and the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal; and MsC program at Makerere University in Uganda.

International Reference Services Program

Empty ICT directorate at the University of Ghana. Frequent power outages and overtaxed bandwidths

result in empty labs.

Innovative Programs at Mann Library

DataSTAR• DataSTAR is a project at Mann Library

that seeks to standardize scientists’ research data sets. Provides repository space for data collection.

Google Books Project• Mann Library, in partnership with

Google, will digitize 500, 000 titles from it’s collection – nearly 1/3 of our total collection.

• Books in the “public domain” will be made available free online through Google Books.

VIVO• VIVO is a research-discovery tool. It

provides a single point of entry to discover research activities at Cornell across campuses and colleges.

• VIVO includes an entry for nearly every faculty member and researcher at Cornell.

• VIVO’s information is updated through a variety of means, such as automated data dumps and manual curation.

VIVO searchVIVO collates and organizes information through bi-directional affiliations. This provides a unified, flexible way to find information about research at Cornell.

Innovative Programs at Mann Library

Underlined links indicate the ability to find out additional

people and activities associated with the topic.

For more information, please visit

www.vivo.cornell.edu

Mann Library• TEEAL and AGORA initiatives in

Latin America and the Caribbean, ranging from content enhancement to outreach and training;

• Developing ways to strengthen information services in Latin America and the Caribbean;

• Ongoing discussion to share reference services between libraries

Center for Transnational Learning

• Videoconferencing, learning modules and communications support;

• Sharing experiences on knowledge management;

• Exploring new course-related software and communication technology

IICA partnerships at Cornell University

Gracias! Thank you!

Please contact us for any follow-up information.

TEEALteeal@cornell.edu

Jaron Porciello Nicole Joosjat264@cornell.edu nkj6@cornell.edu