农业情报学是情报学的一个分支,是情报学的理论、方法应用于农业学科领域以后必然产生的具有农业特点的情报学分支。由于情报学本身还是一门新兴的学科,正处于学派发展时期(参阅本书第二章第一、二节),农业情报学在基础理论、情报方法和技术以及服务方面,当然更处于初创阶段。现在,从事农业情报图书工作的人员队伍正在迅速扩展中,情报意识已成为一切农业科技人员、农业院校师生、农业管理工作者日益不可缺的修养。而多年 As a branch of information science, agricultural intelligence is a branch of information science with agricultural characteristics that inevitably emerges after applying the theory and method of information science in the field of agriculture. As information science itself is still a new discipline, and is in the developmental period of the school (see Chapter II, Section I and II of this book), it is certainly in its infancy in terms of basic theory, intelligence methods and technologies and services . Nowadays, the ranks of personnel engaged in agricultural intelligence and book work are rapidly expanding. Information awareness has become an increasingly necessary accomplishment for all agricultural scientists and technicians, teachers and students from agricultural colleges and universities and agricultural management workers. And for many years