Thanks, Fred Stoss, for posting the National Agricultural Library's URL (Web address).
Yesterday in another thread, Kevin Laughlin stated that ''librarians are effective when they know their local community; they often can pull toghter "issue" collections when they are appraised of a specific need in their community. [These can include] issue collections surrounding hot topics...''
Well said, Kevin! The Water Quality Information Center <http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/ coordinator, my supervisor, is an example of a scientist who knows his community. He has striven, with the help of librarians on staff, to develop useful resources and make them available through the Web.
As a newly-hired librarian at the WQIC, I have been pleasantly surprised by the wealth of 'content' our information center provides and its policy to continue this work.
To librarians, I would advocate collaborating with others to provide useful resources to your user base. To others, I would invite them to approach librarians as colleagues.
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