International Programs for Developing Countries Programas internacionales para países de desarrollo Jaron Porciello, Mann Library September 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 articles Server 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 search VIVO collates and organizes information through bi-directional affiliations. This provides a unified, flexible way to find information about research at Cornell.

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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. TEEAL Jaron PorcielloNicole Joos