1. Forestry Information at Oxford Roger Mills Oxford University Library Services

2. History  Botany 1621  Agriculture 1870  Forestry 1905  Imperial Forestry Institute 1924  Present ‘Worthington’ building 1950  Plant Sciences 1985  OULS 2000

3. Forestry and Empire  SIR WILLIAM SCHLICH  Schlich spent 19 years in India and founded the journal Indian Forester (1874) and the Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun (1877)  Inspector-General of Forests in India 1883, succeeding Sir Dietrich Brandis (1824-1907)  Moved to Royal Indian Engineering College in England as professor of forestry in 1885  Became British subject 1886

4. Forestry at Oxford  Forestry School originally at Royal Indian Engineering College moved to Oxford from Coopers Hill, Windsor in 1905  Sir William Schlich moved with it – and brought his library

5. Schlich  With grandson Humphrey Searle - composer, d. 1982

6. Imperial Forestry Institute  Founded 1924  Schlich’s successor, R.S. Troup, became first director  Library collected field reports from Imperial Forest Service and began indexing them in Current Monthly Record of Forestry Literature

7. IUFRO and information  International Association of Forest Research Institutes founded 1893 (renamed International Union of Forest Research Organizations 1929)  Article 2 of 1929 Statutes: …to work…for the unification of terminology…to provide for the creation of an international forest bibliography…  Secretariat in Vienna

8. Flury and Troup  Forest Bibliography: an International Decimal Classification on the basis of Melvil Dewey’s system published in German 1933, translated into French and English 1936 (‘Flury System’)  Prepared by Dr Philipp Flury (Birmensdorf) (secretary of the Bibliograpical Committee)  Chaired by Prof RS Troup (Oxford)

9. Imperial Forestry Bureau  Began publishing Forestry Abstracts 1938  Developed Oxford System of Decimal Classification for Forestry  Worked with FAO and IUFRO in developing terminologies  As CABI has a formal partnership with Oxford University

10. Information Products  CAB Abstracts / TREECD / ForestScience  Prospect  Forestry Compendium  GFIS

11. Microfilm and Digitisation  Microfilming programme 1964-1998 Succeeded by:  Oxford Digital Library for Forestry  in association with:  Commonwealth Forestry Association  CABI  FAO  OFI

12. Herbaria

13. Xylarium (Wood collection)  Identification  Testing  Properties  Some samples now being digitised

17. Library http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/isbes/  200,000 items  4000 microfilms  6000 serials  Worldwide enquiry service  Document delivery  Training  Consultancy

20. Forest Research  Dept of Plant Sciences http://www.plants.ox.ac.ukhttp://www.plants.ox.ac.uk  Oxford University Centre for the Environment (OUCE) http://www.ouce.ox.ac.uk http://www.ouce.ox.ac.uk  Environmental Change Institute  UK Climate Impacts Programme  UK Forestry Commission http://www.forestry.gov.uk/research http://www.forestry.gov.uk/research  Royal Botanic Gardens Kew http://www.kew.org/http://www.kew.org/  Natural England http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/

22. Forest Science Database  Available on subscription from CABI  Abstracts all forest-related literature held by OFIS

24. http://www.cabi.org/AllOtherProducts.asp?SubjectArea=&PID=114#

32. Forestry Compendium  Available on subscription from CABI  Searchable encyclopaedia of information from many sources

33. http://www.cabi.org/AllOtherProducts.asp?SubjectArea=&PID=105

47. PROSPECT  Wood Properties Database  Free download from http://www.plants.ox.ac.uk/ofi/prospect/index.htm

55. International Activities  IUFRO  CABI  FAO  British Council  World Bank

56. IUFRO  Information Services and Knowledge Organization: Unit 6.03.00 – aims:  to create networks among information professionals  to coordinate efforts in the field of information services  to contribute to the organization of knowledge through terminology, classification and indexing  to evaluate and introduce latest technologies in communication and information services  to strengthen the geographical diversity of information exchange, partly through partnerships

57. http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/ division-6/60000/60300/

58. Conferences  Presentations, sessions and side events at major scientific congresses, e.g.  IUFRO Congress  World Forestry Congress  Technical sessions for information specialists  One-off events  Within larger conferences

60. Networks  International Directory of Forest Information Services: Libraries, Documentation Centres and Subject Specialists  Online at http://iufro.forintek.ca/http://iufro.forintek.ca/  Free registration

61. http://iufro.forintek.ca/

62. GFIS  Global Forest Information Service  www.gfis.net  Oxford is information provider and was member of development task force  International support to be provided through library network

64. GFDC  Global Forest Decimal Classification  A tool for organising and retrieving electronic and paper documents  Revision of ‘Oxford Decimal Classification for Forestry’ 1953  Recommendations for further revisions can be made via website  Available in English and German; French and Spanish versions in preparation  Proposals for other languages welcome

66. http://iufro.forintek.ca/GFDCDefault.aspx

67. Consultancy  Setting up forest information networks  Ghana Forestry Information Network  ICFRE (Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education)

68. Training  Graduate trainees  Interns  Professional Fellows

69. Publishing  Contributions to information science literature  Distribution of OFI Publications  Creation of digital archive

71. OFI Publications - then

72. …and now Available from www.nhbs.com

74. At your service!  www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/isbes/forestry