Institute of Agricultural and Food Information
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Agricultural and Food Library(Department of Institute of Agricultural and Food Information)
The Agricultural and Food Library was established in 1924 as a part of The Agricultural and Food Library is one of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) depository libraries. The system of depository libraries was established in order to make the publications of FAO freely available to the general public. The Agricultural and Food Library distributes the FAO publications to respective research institutions and enables access to them through loans and in-house use.
Periodicals, books, journals, databases, proceedings, yearbooks, videocassettes and other materials in various formats are obtained through purchases, donations and exchanges. The Library is a member of the AGLINET network. AGLINET is a voluntary network of agricultural libraries around the world with strong regional/country coverage and other comprehensive or very specialized subject resource collections. All member libraries provide, upon request, low-cost inter-library loan and photocopy service to other member libraries, bibliographic information, reproductions and other cooperative activities as appropriate. This voluntary co-operative library network was founded in 1971 within the framework of the International Association of Agriculture Librarians and Documentalists (IAALD). AGLINET libraries thus achieve comprehensive resource coverage and mutual and rational use of library resources, not only for the benefit of members' own constituencies, but also in support of other libraries within their country. Since 1948 scientific journals containing articles written by Czech and foreign researchers have been published under the auspices of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences:
At present, following journals are available.
Agricultural Economics The Library is located in the centre of Prague in a house designed by the famous Czech architect Josef Gočár. Gočár was a leading exponent of Czech cubist design in the 1910s. Between 1922 and 1939, Gočár was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and in 1925 he was awarded the Grand Prix for the design of the Czechoslovak Pavilion at the Paris Exposition. |
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Czechoslovak Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In terms of book collection size - over 1 million items - the Library ranks among the biggest agricultural libraries in the world. It plays the role of the main scientific library in the Czech Republic specialized in animal science, animal production and protection, plant protection, plant science and production, postharvest technology, processing of agricultural products, economics, rural sociology, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture, food science and human nutrition, administration, legislation, machinery and engineering, education, extension and information and natural resources and environment.
Every year the Library acquires about 10,000 books and 750 periodical titles. This information is made available to researchers, students, and other library users. The Library offers a comprehensive package of library services - loans and in-house use of books, periodicals and videocassettes, access to domestic and foreign databases, e.g. 
