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Practical information
for library users
The Noragric
Library is the primary library of Noragric staff and students. It
is an integrated part of the UMB library system, and UMB students
and staff are encouraged to use its collections and competence in
development oriented documentation.
The library is also
open to external users through their local libraries or personal contact
with the Noragric library. Visitors to the library are advised to make
an advance appointment, tel: +47-64 94 97 96, e-mail:
library.noragric@umb.no
Opening
hours
Catalogue
Collections
Interlibrary loans
Introduction to library use
Services to Noragric staff
Opening hours
Normally the library will be open and staffed during office hours.
- Sept 15th - May
14th : 8.00 a.m. - 3.45 p.m.
- May 15th - Sept
14th : 8.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m.
The library will sometimes
be unstaffed. On such occasions there will be a message telling you when
the staff will be back. We may also have to close the library for internal
work. This will be announced in advance.
Catalogue
Noragric documents acquired since 1988 have been recorded in BIBSYS,
a computerized catalogue common for all Norwegian university libraries,
most college libraries, and many other research libraries.
UMB main library holdings have been included since 1985.
Guidelines
for searching the BIBSYS database.
General guidelines
for searching databases.
Collections
Collections mainly consist of documents acquired since 1987. A considerable
amount is grey literature on or from developing countries collected during
field work or through personal/institutional network.
Noragric's main
activity areas as mirrored in the library's collections
- Food security,
as relates to natural resources and poverty
- Biodiversity issues
and genetic resources management
- Policy, management
and conflicts related to the use of natural resources and to environmental
issues
- Local knowledge
systems and empowerment of local people in management of natural resources
- Gender issues
in resource management and food production
- Urban/rural resource
conflicts
- Environmental
impact assessments
- Participatory
Rural Appraisal / Participatory Learning and Action
- Analysis and modelling
of resource use for sustainable land use and development
Special
collections
- MSc
theses by previous MNRSA
students.
- A small collection
of
videos and slides for teaching and other purposes.
- A basic reference
collection on development issues and management of natural resources.
- A small but growing
collection of CD-ROMS
and other electronic media.
- A small but growing
"collection" of full
text documents of relevance for Noragric' s fields of expertise.
Inter-library loans
Documents not held within the UMB library system may be acquired as loans
or photocopies from Norway or internationally. Write your name and user
number beside each individual reference and give them to the library staff.
Please keep copies
of your references, since the variety of systems used for this purpose
does not allow the library staff to make automatic follow up of inter-library
loan requests.
Only Noragric staff
and students will be assisted with inter-library loans. Other UMB staff
and students are referred to the main library - but please feel free to
use our collections and competence.
Introduction to library use
MNRSA students will be given a brief introduction to use of the library
services soon after the course opening. Further introduction to information
retrieval and database searching is normally given as part of the course
in research methods - but individual assistance as need arises may be seen
as the most important way of teaching and preaching library use.
New staff will be
offered a library introduction and co-responsibility in developing the
library services and collections is strongly stressed.
Staff and students
are encouraged to follow the courses in database searching given by the
UMB main library, announced on the library's news
page.
Services to Noragric staff
ProCite,
a bibliographical database software package is available to Noragric staff.
Contact the library to get
assistance on installation and use.
This page created and updated by
Liv Ellingsen
Last
update: 09.09.2002
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