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Fresh new look for FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System Web site The FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System has been relaunched with a fresh new look to capitalize on the site’s potential to deliver well-organized, country-specific information on agriculture and food security.

The communications revolution has created an increasingly quality-conscious audience that require standards of excellence in all FAO information products. Providing cutting-edge online library facilities and search tools that locate information efficiently and effectively is central to KCE's work.

The Virtual Library is a valuable tool for accessing FAO's digital resources. The FAO Corporate Document Repository provides free access to FAO publications, meeting documents and research papers in full-text HTML. The FAO library online catalogue (FAOBIB) contains several hundred thousand online references to FAO technical documents, library monograph holdings since 1976 and the FAO library serial holdings database. The David Lubin Memorial Library online provides advanced subject searches and gives valuable information on partner libraries and further library services.

Information systems such as the International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology (AGRIS), the FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System and the WAICENT portal have been developed by KCE to group information by keywords, subject or geographical regions in order to enhance access by user groups.

The WAICENT Information Finder is the Organization's online search engine. This valuable corporate tool searches FAO's rich reserves of online material including Web pages, press releases, publications, photos and video clips.

Located at FAO headquarters in Rome, the David Lubin Memorial Library houses one of the world's finest collections of food, agriculture and international development texts. With over one million volumes, the collection includes all FAO publications and reports from 1945 to the present, FAO governing body reports and the valuable International Institute of Agriculture collections.

The FAO Library and its specialized branch libraries in the Fisheries and Forestry Departments also provide a number of other services: training, briefing and research on world technical literature, document procurement and procurement of books and subscriptions for FAO staff, document delivery and loans. The FAO Library in partnership with other UN agency libraries, participates in the United Nations System Electronic Information Acquisition Consortium (UNSEIAC) for joint purchasing and access to shared electronic information resources.