Why We Can Be Important to You

      No existing commercial database or abstract and index service focuses on agricultural communications as does the Documentation Center. This is believed to be the largest existing electronically searchable collection of information about the communications aspects of agriculture, food, natural resources and rural affairs, internationally."

     This collection contains an unusually-broad range of materials about agricultural communications. As you search you will find citations for books, journal articles, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations, class reports, thought pieces, audio recordings, extension studies, proposals, letters, unpublished materials. Many cannot be identified through other online information search systems. For example, more than 75 percent of the documents held by the Center are not cited in the AGRICOLA database. Some items in the collection may be unavailable elsewhere.

     The collection contains selected documents from archives of the National Association of Farm Broadcasters (NAFB) , including more than 700 NAFB documents that have been indexed as part of the overall documentation project. In addition, the collection includes selected documents from the archives of the Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow (ACT) and the International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS). It also contains personal collections and contributions from individuals such as Kathy Alison, George H. Axinn, Ovid Bay, John H. Behrens, Harvey F. Beutner, Kristina M. Boone, Claron Burnett, Francis C. Byrnes, Warwick Easdown, Harold D. Guither, Delmar Hatesohl, Theodore Hutchcroft, Richard Lee, Mason E. Miller, Hadley Read, Bonnie Riechert, Burton Swanson, Harold B. Swanson, Phillip J. Tichenor, William B. Ward, Larry R. Whiting and others.