Affiliation:
1. National Agricultural Documentation Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
Abstract
The development of effective scientific and technical information systems is of vital importance to the plans and progress of developing countries. The growth of such services is hampered by problems similar to those experienced else where, such as shortages of trained manpower, financial limi tations, inadequate communications, although often much more acutely felt. Nevertheless, considerable efforts are being made to overcome these difficulties. Of more fundamental importance are the types of service most suitable for develop ing countries and the best means to provide them and the kinds of information pertinent to each country's particular circumstances. Developing countries, on the whole, are unable to support large formal research programmes, which would generate information relevant to their particular needs and situations, and therefore the gathering of appropriate information from sources external to the country becomes very important. Conversely each country possesses a large fund of informal information arising from ad hoc develop ment projects, experience and tradition.
Subject
Library and Information Sciences,Information Systems
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