Departments and Units
Foreign Textbook Center
China Agricultural University Foreign Textbook Centre is
one of the thirteen foreign textbook centers in China directly
under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education. Over
the past twenty years, the centre takes charge of introducing
foreign textbook in agriculture science and related subjects
and coordinates resource sharing among agricultural university
libraries national wide. At present, the center has a collection
of over 8,000 books. The main functions of the center are
as follows:
1) Decision making in foreign textbook
selection according to the comments and suggestion of professors
and readers;
2) Introduction, book review and online
catalogue building of introduced textbooks;
3) Collection development and evaluation;
4) Investigation and feedback study of
the use of the textbooks.
Haidian Agricultural Library
Haidian Agricultural Library was founded in November 1997,
under the auspices of Haidian District Government and China
Agricultural University, and is located within the Library
of China Agricultural University. Based on the numerous collections
of the Library of China Agricultural University, Haidian Agricultural
Library also develops its own collections that mainly cover
journals and monographs on agricultural science and technology
and agricultural application technologies. Its clients are
mainly from agricultural systems and rural areas, including
concerned administrative staff, researchers as well as farmers
from Haidian district. Now, the library provides its clients
various services, including Internet information access, CD
ROM documentary retrieves, document services, book procurement.
In addition, Haidian Agricultural Library provides innovative
service to its clients, including field technical training
courses and farm gate library services for agricultural staff
and farmers from the district, all that are most welcome by
the clients.
National Agricultural Information
Center
The National Agricultural Information Center (NAIC), one
of the four National Information Centers of China Academic
Library and Information System (CALIS), is located in the
Library of China Agricultural University. The main functions
of NAIC:
1) Serving as a national focal point
of agricultural information resources;
2) Coordinating with CALIS headquarters
and cooperating with different agricultural university libraries;
3) Sharing information resources, creating
databases and document delivering among agricultural university
libraries;
4) Developing and formulating the technical
and management regulations and standards for effective operation
in the entire network nationwide. |
