The Lubin Files

Thanks for important historical report

I am pleased to inform you that Ricardo Munoz form our Library has professionally scanned our 1980 project report “Camelote Rural Development Project” prepared for the Government of Cuba, which has three volumes.

Thanks to Ricardo and the Library for this important historical report which has been requested by the Government of Cuba.

--FAO Staff member

Thankful and impressed...

Jessica and Francesca,

Thank you so much!  I've delivered this document to the patron. . .

I'd like to thank you again for all of your help on this request.  It's often difficult to get exclusive documents like this one from other libraries--I'm so thankful and impressed with the service you've provided us.

--Librarian of a U.S. Federal Agency

Thanks to Francesca

Dear Ms. Launaro,

Thank you so much for your help in our search for the street food articles. The information that you provided helped us to locate a report that we have in our collection. I have passed the information on to the student and I think that it may be enough to get her started on her project.

Once again, thank you very much for your prompt reply to our request. It has been very useful.

Best wishes,

[A librarian from]
University of British Columbia

Research has proven invaulable...

My research at the FAO library and archive has proven invaluable for my undergraduate thesis on the history of international development, food aid and the Hot Springs Conference on Food and Agriculture. I would have been lost without the generous accommodations made for me by both the librarians and the archive crew, not to mention their thorough knowledge of FAO resources relevant to my topic. The reproduction technology (aka photocopiers) were also top-notch and always available, something that I've learned not to take for granted in libraries.

Many thanks to Jessica, Giuliano and the FAO staff who made my work possible.

--External Library Researcher

Thank you for the kindness and courtesy...

Dear Librarian,

Thank you for the help shown to my request. The information so kindly delivered was excellent and precise enough to allow me to receive a vote of 28/30 on my final exam. Thank you for the kindness and courtesy shown, I offer my thanks for this professional collaboration, and I extend my sincere greetings.

-External library visitor

My sincere gratitude...

Dear Friends,

Just a line to express my sincere gratitude for your enabling me to access this document so rapidly. I am really very pleased finally to have run it to ground. This was a programme with which I was myself closely associated in the early 1990s and Mr. J-- has captured the elements of success of an initiative which we would dearly like to see replicated in the Congo and elsewhere in Africa now that attention is finally returning to the concrete solutions for improving rural development.

Merci y muchas gracias - con todo mi reconocimiento,

External Library User

Les agradezco...

Estimados/as

                Les agradezco su atención y apoyo ya he recibido el artículo, gracias en especial a Laura Rinnovati, de la biblioteca David Lubin-FAO

Saludos

Quality of FAO library and its staff praised

Salve,

sono una studentessa laureanda della Facotlà di Scienze Politiche dell'Università di Bologna e in queste ultime due settimane sono stata a Roma per fare ricerche per la mia tesi presso la biblioteca della FAO. Ci tengo a consigliare a tutti gli universitari che abbiano interesse soprattutto nelle tematiche della cooperazione e dello sviluppo di recarsi a consultare il materiale sia cartaceo che digitale che è a disposizione nella biblioteca, perchè è molto completo, in alcuni casi tecnico ed in altri ancora multidisciplinare. La cosa che più mi ha colpito è stata la disponibilità e la gentilezza dello staff della biblioteca che, da subito, si è messo a disposizione per rendere le mie ricerche più facili e complete. Sono stata in molte biblioteche durante la mia carriera universitaria e vorrei fare i miei sinceri complimenti all'organizzazione del personale della biblioteca della FAO, in particolar modo alla referente cui io ho fatto capo, Laura Rinnovati, che è stata per me un prezioso aiuto per comprendere come fare la ricerca, ha avuto sempre pazienza e disponibliltà nell'aiutarmi a reperire documenti e mi ha seguito con attenzione e costanza.

Complimenti perchè questo è uno dei modi migliori per incentivare chi ha voglia di capire a continuare ad informarsi.

Grazie

Land inequality data

I am a PhD candidate at CIFREM, University of Trento, and I spent a few weeks doing research at the David Lubin Memorial Library and the Statistics Information and Resources Centre. My research deals with issues related to the measurement of land inequality. Land inequality data derived from agricultural censuses have been used in a wide range of empirical studies, despite comparability problems across countries, discontinuities in the time series for individual countries, and large discrepancies across datasets.

Unfortunately, agricultural census data and related information on factors affecting comparability of land inequality data (coverage of the census, def. of land holding, etc.) are not easily accessible to researchers.

I am therefore very grateful for having had the opportunity to access the large collection of census reports held at the FAO libraries. The libraries’ staff were very friendly and always most helpful—I owe many thanks to Mr. Chiofalo, Ms. Foss, Ms. Mathewson, Ms. Rinnovati, Ms. Yates, and others whose names I do not recall.

Best regards,

External Library Researcher
PhD candidate in Economics and Management
CIFREM, University of Trento

mi profundo reconocimiento...

Sr. Ricardo G. Muñoz O,

Quiero expresar mi profundo reconocimiento a la biblioteca que dirige y su amable persona por la pronta atención que dieron a mi solicitud para acceder a una publicación del informe "Investigaciones sobre costo y beneficio en la pesca industrial de Chile, 1966".  Le comento que sentí una grata satisfacción de saber que la FAO cuenta con documentos antiguos en formato digital, despejando la duda que tenía respecto a que las publicaciones 'antiguas' de la FAO —por así llamarlo— se perdería en algún rincón de las bibliotecas especializadas de nuestros países -como sería el caso de Perú- y el de la propia FAO, pero veo que no es así, por los que les felicito por permitirnos acceder a dicha bibliografía a través del medio electrónico.

Así también le comento que estoy realizando un breve trabajo de investigación sobre las pesquerías en general de los países del Pacífico Sudoriental (Chile, Ecuador y Perú) de los años 1940 - 1970, con una focalización en los inicios de las pesquerías industriales de bonito, anchoveta y atún; por lo que estoy en el proceso de búsqueda de información bibliográfica.  Estaré muy agradecido si podría indicarme si cuentan con dicha información y a que página Web o link podría dirigirme acceder para obtener los informes, documentos técnicos u otro tipos de documentos informativos.
Agradeciendo anticipadamente invalorable cooperación, me despido muy atentamente.

"External Library Patron"