MURTHY ( S Radhakrishna ). Current Services of Nutritional Information Dissemination.10,2; 1985;183-90
'Health and Nutrition' plays a vital role in the prevention and control of many diseases. Research carried out in various parts of the world has contributed useful information in this field. The phenomenal growth of knowledge has to be disseminated to other researchers, scientists, planners, public health workers. Availability of appropriate information at the right time certainly helps in planning future projects and in the interpretation and understanding of existing health and nutritional problems. This in turn has a tremendous impact on the health and nutritional problems. This in turn has a tremendous impact on the health and nutritional status of the community and the country at large. The dissemination of current information in the field of nutrition and available potential sources such information at NIN Library are highlighted in this paper. They are as follows.
(1) Press Clippings, (2) News Digests/News Letters, (3) Conferences/Symposia/Seminars, (4) Audio-visual media, (5) Reprints/Preprints, (6) Reprographic Services, (7) Theses/ Dissertations, (8) Working Papers/Research Reports, (9) Scientific publications, (10) Annual Reports/Information Reports, (11) Accessions Lists, (12) Internal Reports, (13) Indexing and Abstracting Services, and (14) Future programmes.