Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Bogor Institute of Agriculture'

This study, within the framework of improving the English course for postgraduate level at IPB (Bogor Institute of Agriculture), attempts to determine the extent of English reading activities for academic purposes expected by agricultural teaching staff at post graduate level, different expectations across the study programs or a particular area of specialised discipline, the extent of English problems experienced by postgraduate students and the strategies used to cope with English needs in their postgraduate studies, to test a hypothesis that there is a positive correlation between the students' command/scores of English and their achievements/scores in agricultural subjects. Questionnaires for agricultural staff and students were adapted from Hughes (1988) and Weir (1988) to address these questions. Students' academic records were obtained to compute the correlation between scores in English and agricultural subjects. Review of literature and research in current theories of reading in EFL is given to serve as a theoretical foundation to discuss English reading lessons from secondary level to tertiary level in Indonesia and to provide general implications to improve the English course at IPB. The results indicate that staff reading expectation in English is high in comparison to the students' level of English and in that all eight types of reading activities listed in the questionnaires were expected. There are some different expectations across the study programs. However, the most relevant finding to note in regard to the the English course is that reading English texts as review of literature for research proposes and reading English texts for writing assignments were expected across all the study programs. It is also found that reading English texts for academic purposes was still a problem for the majority of student respondents and there are various interesting reading strategies used by the student to cope with the English needs of their studies. However, further investigation is essential to assist the students with reading problems since the results do not specify the nature of reading problems and methods used by the respondents. A significant correlation is found between scores in English and agricultural subjects at the level of 5% and 1% by the Spearman rank- order and the Pearson product-moment correlation formulas. This implies that English is central to the students' success in their postgraduate studies, which is also supported by the student respondents' opinions. General implications and suggestions are provided to assist postgraduate with reading problems and to improve the English course for the students.

Humankind has lived on earth for a geologically brief time. Our species has proven a remarkable ability to adapt to our environment through the development and use of tools and technology. Little evidence suggests when our need to tame nature took hold in our collective cultural consciousness, yet throughout western history, human needs and activities have been perceived as separate from the natural world. We stand at the beginning of a new millennium, aware of the cycles which govern the flows of life on our planet, yet far from understanding the specifics of how they work. This building, an Institute for Urban Agriculture, seeks to challenge that notion of separation. The design expresses architecturally the ways in which the technological systems and organic systems work together to sustain the mission of the Institute. Through every aspect of the building design, the perceived separation of those systems is woven together to express an holistic view of the building as a fully integrated system. Human intervention is a necessary part of a healthy urban ecosystem, and positive relationships with the natural world contribute to the qualities of human health. Inspired by careful observation and experience of the surrounding urban landscape, this design recognizes those interactions and builds upon their social, ecological and economic values. Architecture becomes the medium for communicating transformed ideas about our relationships with the natural world to the building inhabitants and to the public at large.
Master of Architecture

The objective of this thesis was to identify and measure the effect of factors that influenced income earnings of former agricultural students. Data were obtained from a questionnaire mailed to former Virginia Tech students, all of whom were enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences during 1977. An analysis of the 243 respondents was conducted with emphasis on educational profiles, labor market entry and participation, and personal characteristics. Models based on human capital and labor market principles were developed to explain differences in individual incomes. Earned income models were estimated for the first job after leaving college, for the job held in 1985, and for the 1985 job in a lagged formulation. Analysis of covariance was used to estimate the empirical models. Model results for the first job starting income indicated positive returns to education and the provision of profit sharing benefits. Significantly higher starting incomes were also found for males and for those who considered pay as important or very important. In contrast, the year of job entry exhibited an inverse relationship with starting income. No significant differences in first job income were found for college major, type of placement services used, state location of the job, nature of the job (whether agricultural or not), and provision of housing benefits. Model results for the 1985 income, as in the starting income model, indicated positive returns to the provision of profit sharing benefits. Significantly higher incomes were also associated with married respondents, urban residents, and those who ranked oral communication skills as much needed or essential. In contrast, lower incomes were associated with those who ranked a technical skill to be much needed or essential and with those who held more previous jobs. Insignificant variables in the 1985 income model included level of education, college major, state location of the job, nature of the job, personal assessment of the importance of pay, provision of housing benefits, ranking of the need for knowledge of agricultural policy, and gender. Results for the lagged formulation of the 1985 income model were similar to results for the 1985 income model. In addition, prior income was found to be a positive and significant determinant of 1985 incomes. Implications for academic support areas, curricula, and students were presented and discussed
Master of Science

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2004.
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Orientadores: Maria Margaret Lopes, Léa Maria Leme Strini Velho
Tese ( doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências
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Resumo: Analisa-se na tese a trajetória do Imperial Instituto Fluminense de Agricultura (IIFA), instituição de caráter privado criada por membros do Estado, proprietários rurais e homens das ciências. O Instituto tinha como objetivo o melhoramento da agricultura no Brasil, com propostas de mudanças na rotina da lavoura, de incorporação de princípios científicos e de introdução de máquinas e instrumentos agrícolas nas atividades rurais. Os homens das ciências vinculados ao IIFA buscavam o 'ideal de progresso de país civilizado' e empenhavam-se na 'missão' de convencer o lavrador a adotar uma agricultura baseada em princípios das ciências. Constituíam o IIFA: o Jardim Botânico da Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, que adicionou à sua atribuição anterior de pesquisa e espaço de lazer a função de produzir mudas e sementes em grande escala e distribuí-las aos agricultores; a Fazenda Normal, que funcionava como espaço para a prática de experimentações tecnocientíficas; e o Asilo Agrícola, que acolhia órfãos desvalidos oriundos da Santa Casa de Misericórdia e ensinava-lhes o ofício da lavoura e as primeiras letras. O IIFA publicou, durante 22 anos ininterruptos, a Revista Agrícola, de periodicidade trimestral, destinada à divulgação de temas relacionados com as atividades da lavoura, com vistas a melhorar e aumentar a produção agrícola. Na tese, mostra-se que o Instituto serviu de lócus de institucionalização de áreas científicas relacionadas à agricultura, como química agrícola, silvicultura, pedologia, meteorologia agrícola, fitopatologia e zootecnia, até que elas constituíssem seus próprios espaços científicos
Abstract: This thesis analyses the trajectory of the Imperial Instituto Fluminense de Agricultura (IIFA), a private institution founded by State officials, landowners and "men of sciences". The Institute's main goal was to improve agricultural production in Brazil, through changes in farming practices, adoption of new equipment and the introduction of scientific principles into the rural activities. The men of sciences linked to IIFA aimed at the 'ideal of progress of civilized countries' and, took as their 'mission' to convince farmers to adopt a science-based agriculture. IIFA was constitute by: the Jardim Botânico [Botanical Garden] da Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, which besides being a leisure area, was also responsible for the production of seedling and seeds in large scale to be distributed to farmers; the Fazenda Normal, a farm with the purpose of serving as grounds to the practice of technical and scientific experimentation; and the Asilo Agrícola [Agricultural Asylum], a foster home that sheltered orphans from the Santa Casa da Misericórdia and taught them reading and writing and the profession of farming. IIFA issued the Revista Agricola [Agricultural Journal] consistently for 22 years. The three-monthly magazine aimed at spreading farming-related themes, with a view to improving and raising agricultural production. The thesis shows that the Institute served as a locus for institutionalizing the scientific fields related to Agriculture in Brazil, such as Agricultural Chemistry, Forestry, Pedology, Agricultural Meteorology, Phytopatology and Animal Husbandry, to the point they could conquer their own spaces
Doutorado
Ensino e Historia de Ciencias da Terra
Doutor em Ciências

Orientador: Enokibara Enokibara
Resumo: A presente pesquisa insere-se no campo da história do paisagismo, enfocando a arborização, e pretende contribuir para o entendimento da inserção das espécies vegetais empregadas na arborização urbana do Estado de São Paulo no início do século XX. Seu objetivo é analisar o papel do Serviço de Distribuição de Mudas e Sementes (SDMS) da Secretaria da Agricultura, Comércio e Obras Públicas (SACOP), tendo como referência de análise os Relatórios Anuais da Secretaria, entre os anos de 1892, quando a SACOP é criada, até 1916, quando a distribuição de mudas e sementes a particulares deixa de ser feita de forma gratuita pelo governo. Nesse contexto, a pesquisa analisa a estrutura física e organizacional criada ou direcionada para atender as demandas de produção e distribuição de espécies através do SDMS. O enfoque recai sobre a distribuição realizada pelo Instituto Agronômico do Estado (IAE), no período de 1909 a 1912, por meio do levantamento e análise das “Cartas de Envio”, documentos da Instituição onde eram registradas todas as espécies, quantidades, requerentes e as cidades de destino das solicitações. Paralelamente, a pesquisa analisa, por meio de registros fotográficos da época, a inserção das espécies solicitadas no meio urbano, ratificando a importância do SDMS para a configuração de um repertório vegetal arbóreo pelo Estado de São Paulo.
Abstract: This research is inserted in the field of landscaping history, focusing on afforestation, and aims to contribute to the understanding of the insertion of plant species used in the urban afforestation of the State of São Paulo in the early twentieth century. Its objective is to analyze the role of the Seedling and Seed Distribution Service (SDMS) of the Secretariat of Agriculture, Trade and Public Works (SACOP), taking as its reference for analysis the Annual Reports of the Secretariat, between 1892, when SACOP It was created until 1916, when the distribution of seedlings and seeds to privates ceased to be free of charge by the government. In this context, the research analyzes the physical and organizational structure created or directed to meet the demands of species production and distribution through SDMS. The focus is on the distribution made by the State Agronomic Institute (IAE), from 1909 to 1912, through the survey and analysis of the “Letters of Shipment”, documents of the Institution where all species, quantities, applicants and the destination cities of the requests. At the same time, the research analyzes, through photographic records of the time, the insertion of the requested species in the urban environment, confirming the importance of SDMS for the configuration of an arboreal plant repertoire by the State of São Paulo.
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碩士
淡江大學
教育資料科學學系
85
The purpuse of this research was trying to understand the information seeking behavior derived from the studying and teaching information needs of those agricultural researchers. Concluded from the phenomena of their informationseeking behavior and the factors behind, it might offer the libraries and other agricultural information service center as a reference to improve their service.The subjects involved in this research were the agricultural teachers at National Chiayi Institute of Agriculture. In this research, there were five questions raised. By way of clarify these five questions as followed, it is possible to research the purpose of this research. 1. What is the current studying and teaching conditions of the teachers? 2. What kind of studying and teaching situations will make the teachers have information needs? 3. What are the critical ways for the teachers to get needed literature? 4.How do the teachers use formal information channels? 5. How do the teachers use informal information channels? The data supporting this research were gathered through the methods of interview and questionnaire survey. The findings were: on teaching, the major situation having information needs for the teachers occurred when they were compiling textbook or handouts; on studying, it also happened when they wanted to complete the studies subsidized by the National Science Council, Council of Agriculture or Department of Agriculture: Taiwan Provincial Government, The commonest way for the teachers to obtain information resources was by way of taking part in seminars. To the information that could not get in the local library, the teachers always asked for the help from their friends living in Taiwan. The teachers, either on studying or teaching, relied mostly on periodicals. To the use of retrieval tools, the references of literature were depended a lot. To the use of network, the WWW was ranked on the top. To the use of CD- ROM databases, the AGRICOLA was mostly welcomed, The Agricultural Science Information Center was mostly asked to locate needed information. The library of National Taiwan University was the place where could satisfy the information needs most. By interviewing, the distribution of invisible colleges and the information gatekeepers was shown. After analyzing the invisible colleges, it found that the teachers majoring in agricultural science depended a lot on informal information channels to get information. It happened especially when the formal information channels were not sufficient to satisfy them. This research also proposed a few suggestions when the author composed the reactions of teachers to the local library. Continuous studies on the relevant issue are proposed.

碩士
國立雲林科技大學
企業管理系碩士班
95
Taiwan is very distinguished by agricultural efforts in the world. The research capacity in Taiwan was compartmented to several institutions. Agriculture Research Institute is one of them and the efforts of Agriculture Research Institute are very contributive and very close to our daily life. This study interviewed five researchers in Agriculture Research Institute. Explore that although they work in the same institution but there are many differences in knowledge management between them. This study can make value for knowing what activities in this organization and how do them work. After these activities this research can help to create better ways to advance the utility of knowledge. There are five discoveries of this research:1.Agriculture Research Institute is short of system management of knowledge management.2.The current of digital asset management.3.Policies are not fitting in with actual need.4.Conflict between charge for or not.5.Purchaser is hard to find.

碩士
大葉大學
設計暨藝術學院碩士在職專班
103
The study aims to investigate natural farming, a non-traditional cultivation mode that uses no pesticides-free, no chemical fertilizers, organic fertilizer, and no weeding. Specifically, the study focuses on the natural farming adopted by Jin Ho ecological sustainable engineering institute located in Erlin township. Through interviews with cultivators, local people and authorities, the study expected to understand the problems and predicaments of using natural farming in cultivating rice. Moreover, the study analyzed the differences between traditional and natural faming. The conclusions are: 1.Natural farming leads to limited production and high unit price. This is a crisis for cultivators. 2.Natural farming can be promoted by increasing consumers’ intentions to purchase. 3.Natural farming abides by ethics of lands so that it should be encouraged to promote sustainable agriculture and protect ecological systems of farmlands. 4.Testing system and quality control should be built to sustainability. 5.The spirit of Jin-Ho natural farming is emphasizing more on quality than quantity. 6.To overcome the Amazonian snail problem is the challenge of natural farming method. In addition, the study discussed future development of industry restructuring of rice in Erlin area. The author expects that rice industry be promoted to trigger local economic prosperity, to achieve sustainable development of industries, and to stimulate local people’s interests as well as participation in adopting natural framing as a main mode of cultivating rice.

The present study on “the use of slang among the students of the Higher Institute of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry (I.S.A.E)” attempts to examine how and why the students use slang terms to commutate various issues. The research focuses on slang used by I.S.A.E students because most studies have dealt with Rwandan regional dialect, but in my knowledge none of them has been conducted on the slang terms used by the students of I.S.A.E. In conducting this research, I intended to give my contribution by producing a study on slang in the context of Rwanda and particularly on students’ slang. The research begins with different definitions of slang and the theoretical approach is discussed afterwards. The present study is empirical. Both qualitative and quantitative methodologies are employed. The data was elicited from I.S.A.E students, staff and five ‘outsiders’ using diverse methodological tools such as questionnaire forms, focus-group interviews and participants. On one hand, the questionnaire survey was used mainly to gather lists of slang words. On the other hand, focus-groups and participant observations were used to reach a deeper ‘ethnographic insight’ into the meanings and contexts of usage of the slang. The current study focuses primarily on the morphological and semantic etymology of the 77 selected slang terms. The study indicated that the slang terms found in the speeches of the students of I.S.A.E are the results of various morphological processes such as coinage, borrowing, clipping, compounding and acronyms.

碩士
國立中興大學
農業推廣教育研究所
88
Abstract The extension agents of Agricultural Research Institute and District Agricultural Improvement Stations who guide the Agricultural Production and Marketing Groups (APMG) should have the professional knowledge of farm management and take the responsibility for promoting the performance the APMGs. Therefore, It is very important to understand how extension agents generate and transfer the management knowledge. This research is based on the view of Agricultural Knowledge and Information System and to study this point. The result of the research shows, as the matter of knowledge generation, agents need the knowledge of agricultural enterprise management, organization and human resource management, production and quality control, marketing management, financial affair management and consultation measures. In the meanwhile, agents need both knowledge of negotiation skills and administration ethics, and computer science. For the information resources, technical personnel of China Productivity Center and professors from all the colleges and universities are thought as the most important resources. Training, lecturing, seminars, interviews and journals as the important communication channels. On the other hand, recognitive difference, professional ethics and regulations are serious limits while getting in touch with knowledge resource. As the matter of knowledge transfer, interviews, training, lecturing, and journals are the main ways for agents to transfer the knowledge to APMGs, and the most serious communication limits are recognitive difference, professional ethics, thoughts and ideas. It is suggested that training institute has to extend its communication resources except from China Productivity Center and universities; use advanced channels; and break through the existing communication limits, to offer the required knowledge to extension agents. The extension agents should based on the results of this research to extend the communication channels and reduce the communication limits while transfer information to APMGs.

The pressure on the public agricultural extension organisation in Ghana to improve its responsiveness to meet the needs of farmers has increased since the globalisation of trade in the early 1990s. To improve agricultural productivity and the livelihood security of farm households, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Ghana decentralised its extension service in 1997. Although this was a critical change in agricultural policy, the extension service has struggled to implement this policy effectively. Further improvement in the situation is hampered because there has been little research published in this area. To provide this understanding, a single-case study of a successful decentralised district level extension organisation in Ghana was used to identify the factors, processes and outcomes that contribute to its performance. The case organisation is an example of a district agricultural extension organisation that operates under a decentralisation system at the level of deconcentration, with a high farmer-to-extension agent ratio and limited and uncertain levels of Government funding. The results of the study emphasised the importance of the effects of both external and internal (or organisational) factors on the performance of the case organisation. The external factors included: (1) the political will to decentralise, (2) the level of decentralisation of other government departments, (3) the provision of a clear legal framework for decentralisation and (4) the existence of established institutions that are willing to support the decentralisation process. New external factors that were identified in this study were (1) the type and drivers of decentralisation, (2) stakeholders' willingness and commitment to support the decentralisation process and (3) the community characteristics in terms of land tenure arrangements and gender roles. The results confirmed the importance of the organisational factors prescribed in the literature: (1) stakeholder participation, (2) managerial and technical capacity, (3) operational funding and (4) accountability. However, the study also identified five other interrelated organisational factors that influenced the success of the case organisation that had not been previously reported in the literature. These included the needs to: (1) develop a needs-based extension programme, (2) expand the extension service focus and roles, (3) foster a cross-sector pluralistic extension approach (4) use needs-based groups for service delivery, and (5) extension staff attitudinal change. Multistakeholder (farmer and other organisations) participation was critical for the development of a needs-based extension programme. The case organisation had modified the traditional extension programme planning process to involve stakeholders at different levels of participation. Similarly, the case organisation involved stakeholders in its multilevel monitoring and evaluation processes. Stakeholder participation in planning and evaluation, although aimed ultimately at efficient and effective programme implementation and improvement, did enhance accountability. Because the case organisation had taken on a broader livelihood security focus to extension, the definition of farmer needs was extended to encompass on-farm and off-farm needs that have impact on the contribution agriculture makes to the livelihood security of farm households in the district. This broader livelihood security focus to extension required the case organisation to take on additional roles from those it traditionally held. In the study, a typology of such roles was developed and a role selection process used by the case organisation during its programme planning process was described. Similarly, because of this broader focus, the case organisation had to work both across sectors and with other extension providers from within the sector to meet the needs of farmers. Again, the multistakeholder programme planning process was central to fostering coordination and collaboration amongst the various extension providers in the district. Decentralisation has placed greater managerial responsibility on management staff of the case organisation. In addition, the livelihood security focus has required technical staff and attitudinal changes to develop and seek for a much broader range of skills and knowledge - meaning that the development of both managerial and technical capacity was important for the case organisation. Needs-based training, the development of a learning environment and the enhancement of staff motivation were critical for the development of staff capacity. As with other extension organisations in developing countries, the funding for the case organisation was limited and uncertain. To overcome these constraints, the case organisation had in place mechanisms to ensure its resources were used efficiently and that it could mobilise additional resources from outside the organisation. Resource efficiency was improved through an intensive monitoring system and the use of stable needs-based groups. Additional resources were mobilised by lobbying government and international donors for funds for projects that would meet the needs of farmers. Further resources were obtained through collaboration with other stakeholder organisations. Again, the multistakeholder planning process provided a platform for collaboration. Networking and special issue forums also provided mechanisms for enhancing collaboration within the district. Decentralisation was introduced into Ghana in 1997 with the aim of eventually developing a demand-driven extension system. Although viewed as successful, the case organisation has yet to achieve the level of farmer participation (i.e. self-mobilisation) that is required for a demand-driven extension system. Currently, after six years of decentralisation, the level of farmer participation can be classified as somewhere between consultation and collaboration. Therefore, the results of this study suggest that the transition from a top-down to a demand-driven extension system will take considerable time and resources.

碩士
國立中興大學
農業推廣教育研究所
89
This study takes the research staffs of the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan of ROC) as the target object Two researchmethods, content analysis and survey research, were applied to attain the fallowing aims: Frist the knowledge creation and sharing among the researchers within this institute; Second to examine the factors that might affect the knowledge creation and sharing. The influential factors were divided into five categories, personal factor, the subculture of the organization, the level of trust, the acknowledgements to the encouraging systems and the knowledge about personal intellectual property. The findingo were as the following: 1. The amount of publications, both personal and collaborated, of male research staffs of TARI are greater than females’.The publication vilume produced collaboration between males appear to be more than between males and females. 2. In TARI, associate researchers have relatively the greatest number of publications; in contrast, research assistants have the lowest production, indicating that creation and sharing of research idea increase as the position rises The strongest aspiration goes to the associate researchers. 3. Rice research is the major topic in TARI since it was founded, and there is about 25.7% of rice-related publications in total. Improving the rice productivity was the main object of those studies at the very beginning. Nowadays, however, the focuses shift to diverse objects, such as raising the quality of various agro-products, ecosystem protection, molecular engineering and reuse of environmental resource, etc. 4. Regarding sub-cultural organizational effect in TARI with regard to knowledge sharing , the departmental atmosphere indeed influence one’s desire on knowledge sharing. The study result shows that the manner of a departmental leader is the key factor that affect the sharing desire among the members in the group. 5. The respondents acknowledgements to the enabling systems such as promotion, research reputation and feedback reward, are confirmed to effectively increase the knowledge sharing in the organization.

The study aims to assess performance of Technical Reports as a channel of information for development in the Lesotho context. It concurrently evaluates how a specialized information unit of the Institute of Southern African Studies (lSAS) has performed in its obligation to devise adequate mechanisms for managing the report literature and meeting the development-related needs of users. In order to achieve that aim, the study contextualized development as a process, state, and condition and highlighted some development indicators for Lesotho. Agriculture and gender were selected as sectors of development. Global conferences, as one of the many development strategies that generate technical reports heavily, were used as a benchmark. In the performance and impact assessment methodologies, case study techniques were applied with ISAS as a site and one unit ofanalysis. Technical Reports (TRs) on Lesotho were studied. Triangulation approaches were applied in sourcing data. The academics, information workers, government officials, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and aid agencies based in Lesotho were surveyed. Research questions that guided the study centred on the productivity, distribution of technical reports, their management by intermediaries, use, non-use and the effects thereon. Seven types ofTechnical Reports feature in the development process, namely Academic, Project, Conference, Survey, Enquiry, Official and Special Committee Reports. Technical Reports are produced at varying levels depending on needs and approaches to development by producers or commissioning bodies. Academic Reports are authored mostly by the academics. The Government, Aid agencies and NGOs produce widely through external consultants/experts, who utilize centres such as ISAS where commissioning bodies do not have information services. TRs productivity is high and diverse in Lesotho, but capacity to manage the output is seemingly low, and hence under-utilization results; ISAS's out-dated mission, lack of, or limited resources and dejure national support in the form of acts and statutes affect the Institute's Technical Reports' services. Production is gender biased, thus making for imbalance in reporting on development. Agriculture as a sector is heavily researched and reported about, but the benefits to the populace are either few or non-existent. Restricted materials are estimated at 30%, but most ofthe TRs are unaccounted for. Hoarding and poor records or information management leave a vacuum that leads to a duplication of previous studies and production. The study confirmed that technical reports are required by all the surveyed groups. Technical Reports are not ofa transient nature even though they reach a peak oftopicality and use at certain periods. Where the channel conveys factual data timeously, there are developmental benefits. Low or non-use is common where there are no specialized information services especially within the civil service. Such negative factors cause delays and infrequent currency, inadequate reporting and erroneous budgetary allocations, for example. Seeminglythere is no clarity on what restricted, secret and limited materials mean. Major recommendations were made. One concerned an integrated approach to managing the channel. This would involve preparing a Manual for the production of Technical Reports which would clarify how to prepare them; for instance, the caliber of personneVexperts who should author reports, the conditions to be observed, the timeliness production, reliability of data used, and centres that would be acknowledged to then qualify for commensurate financial and other support. The other proposes that the envisaged National Research Council be given the powers to enforce the guidelines ofthe manual and related functions. The last recommends assigning to the documentalistsfor classified Technical Reports, the role of managing classified items. Consideration should also be given to important issues raised in the study, being the role of Information, Communication and Technologies (lCTs), sectors of development to be attended to, training and networking in technical report\s. Further studies are also recommended mainly for the causes and effects of the closures of information services that managed technical reports' in southern Africa; longitudinal studies on the impact of non-use oftechnical reports in major sectors ofdevelopment like Agriculture; comparative studies on the impact of specialized centres in the developed and developing countries. Further action is urged under the aegis ofbodies like the Standing Conference ofEastem, Central and Southern African Librarians (SCECSAL), Standing Conference of National and University Librarians.
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2002.