Forestry Information at Oxford Roger Mills Oxford University

Forestry Information at Oxford Roger Mills Oxford University Library Services

History v Botany 1621 v Agriculture 1870 v Forestry 1905 v Imperial Forestry Institute 1924 v Present ‘Worthington’ building 1950 v Plant Sciences 1985 v OULS 2000

Forestry and Empire v SIR WILLIAM SCHLICH v Schlich spent 19 years in India and founded the journal Indian Forester (1874) and the Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun (1877) v Inspector-General of Forests in India 1883, succeeding Sir Dietrich Brandis (1824 -1907) v Moved to Royal Indian Engineering College in England as professor of forestry in 1885 v Became British subject 1886

Forestry at Oxford v. Forestry School originally at Royal Indian Engineering College moved to Oxford from Coopers Hill, Windsor in 1905 v. Sir William Schlich moved with it – and brought his library

Schlich v. With grandson Humphrey Searle composer, d. 1982

Imperial Forestry Institute v. Founded 1924 v. Schlich’s successor, R. S. Troup, became first director v. Library collected field reports from Imperial Forest Service and began indexing them in Current Monthly Record of Forestry Literature

IUFRO and information v. International Association of Forest Research Institutes founded 1893 (renamed International Union of Forest Research Organizations 1929) v. Article 2 of 1929 Statutes: …to work…for the unification of terminology…to provide for the creation of an international forest bibliography… v. Secretariat in Vienna

Flury and Troup v. Forest Bibliography: an International Decimal Classification on the basis of Melvil Dewey’s system published in German 1933, translated into French and English 1936 (‘Flury System’) v. Prepared by Dr Philipp Flury (Birmensdorf) (secretary of the Bibliograpical Committee) v. Chaired by Prof RS Troup (Oxford)

Imperial Forestry Bureau v. Began publishing Forestry Abstracts 1938 v. Developed Oxford System of Decimal Classification for Forestry v. Worked with FAO and IUFRO in developing terminologies v. As CABI has a formal partnership with Oxford University

Information Products v. CAB Abstracts / TREECD / Forest. Science v. Prospect v. Forestry Compendium v. GFIS

Microfilm and Digitisation v Microfilming programme 1964 -1998 Succeeded by: v Oxford Digital Library for Forestry v in association with: v v Commonwealth Forestry Association CABI FAO OFI

Herbaria

Xylarium (Wood collection) v Identification v Testing v Properties v Some samples now being digitised

Library http: //www. ouls. ox. ac. uk/isbes/ v 200, 000 items v 4000 microfilms v 6000 serials v. Worldwide enquiry service v. Document delivery v. Training v. Consultancy

Forest Research v Dept of Plant Sciences http: //www. plants. ox. ac. uk v Oxford University Centre for the Environment (OUCE) http: //www. ouce. ox. ac. uk v Environmental Change Institute v UK Climate Impacts Programme v UK Forestry Commission http: //www. forestry. gov. uk/research v Royal Botanic Gardens Kew http: //www. kew. org/ v Natural England http: //www. naturalengland. org. uk/

Forest Science Database v. Available on subscription from CABI v. Abstracts all forest-related literature held by OFIS

http: //www. cabi. org/All. Other. Products. asp? Subject. Area=&PID=114#

Forestry Compendium v Available on subscription from CABI v. Searchable encyclopaedia of information from many sources

http: //www. cabi. org/All. Other. Products. asp? Subject. Area=&PID=105

PROSPECT v. Wood Properties Database v. Free download from http: //www. plants. ox. ac. uk/ofi/prospect/index. htm

International Activities v. IUFRO v. CABI v. FAO v. British Council v. World Bank

IUFRO v Information Services and Knowledge Organization: Unit 6. 03. 00 – aims: v to create networks among information professionals v to coordinate efforts in the field of information services v to contribute to the organization of knowledge through terminology, classification and indexing v to evaluate and introduce latest technologies in communication and information services v to strengthen the geographical diversity of information exchange, partly through partnerships

http: //www. iufro. org/science/divisions/ division-6/60000/60300/

Conferences v. Presentations, sessions and side events at major scientific congresses, e. g. v. IUFRO Congress v. World Forestry Congress v. Technical sessions for information specialists v. One-off events v. Within larger conferences

Networks v. International Directory of Forest Information Services: Libraries, Documentation Centres and Subject Specialists v. Online at http: //iufro. forintek. ca/ v. Free registration

http: //iufro. forintek. ca/

GFIS v. Global Forest Information Service vwww. gfis. net v. Oxford is information provider and was member of development task force v. International support to be provided through library network

GFDC v Global Forest Decimal Classification v A tool for organising and retrieving electronic and paper documents v Revision of ‘Oxford Decimal Classification for Forestry’ 1953 v Recommendations for further revisions can be made via website v Available in English and German; French and Spanish versions in preparation v Proposals for other languages welcome

http: //iufro. forintek. ca/GFDCDefault. aspx

Consultancy v. Setting up forest information networks v. Ghana Forestry Information Network v. ICFRE (Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education)

Training v. Graduate trainees v. Interns v. Professional Fellows

Publishing v. Contributions to information science literature v. Distribution of OFI Publications v. Creation of digital archive

OFI Publications - then

…and now Available from www. nhbs. com

At your service! vwww. ouls. ox. ac. uk/isbes/forestry