Looking back on the past development track-1957 In March, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences was established, and at the same time, the library of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences was formally born, taking over the library of the former North China Agricultural Institute. At the beginning of the library, there were only 654.38+ten thousand books and 14 staff. In the same year, it was identified by the State Council as "the first member library of the Central Library Committee in China", that is, the National Agricultural Center Library, which undertook the function of serving the whole country. From the early 1960s to the Cultural Revolution, the library developed rapidly, with 265,438+0,000 books and 29 staff. By the end of 1986, the library had 69 staff and 360,000 books, with a building area of 2 167 square meters. The new building is completed, with a building area of13300m2. Institute of Information, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences-1956 In July, the preparatory group of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences set up an information outreach group and a data group. At that time, the staffing was 16, which was the embryonic form of the first agricultural information institution in China. 1963 In September, the Ministry of Agriculture entrusted China Academy of Agricultural Sciences to hold the first national agricultural information work conference, which made the agricultural science and technology information work in China develop rapidly. 197 1 year, China academy of agriculture and forestry established the institute of scientific and technological information, which marked that China's agricultural information work entered a new stage of development. In the 1970s, the Information Office did a lot of useful work in collecting, sorting out and disseminating domestic and foreign agricultural scientific and technological achievements and advanced experience, and studying and promoting China's agricultural modernization, which laid a good foundation for the rapid development of agricultural scientific and technological information work in the 1980s. 1985, with the approval of the State Science and Technology Commission, the Information Institute of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences was also the Information Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, which clarified the national information business coordination function. Computing Center of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences was established in 198 1 year, and was formally established in 1983+0 month. It is the first computer application research institute in China, with 44 employees. He undertook 29 scientific research projects and 2 international cooperation projects, and passed the appraisal 17, of which 9 won the scientific and technological progress award of the Ministry of Agriculture and 7 won the scientific and technological progress award of the Academy. More than 200 computer technology training courses were held, with 6,543,800 trainees. Macro Laboratory of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences was established in 1992. Its research direction is to carry out theoretical, policy and macro-strategic research on grain and rural economic development, undertake soft science research projects of the state and relevant departments, and provide scientific basis and consulting services for leadership decision-making. He has presided over many research projects of countries and ministries, and completed many important decision-making investigations, demonstrations and consultations of countries and relevant ministries. In addition, he also participated in the establishment of the "National Food and Nutrition Advisory Committee" and assumed the daily work of the Committee office. The Institute of Agricultural Information of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences integrates the advantages of literature information, resources, equipment and talents of the above-mentioned scientific and technological institutions to create conditions for gradually expanding agricultural information technology innovation, agricultural literature information research and service scope. After more than 50 years of development, the Institute of Agricultural Information has become the largest research institution in the field of agricultural science and technology literature information in China, covering three important aspects: agricultural information analysis, agricultural information technology and agricultural information management. After more than 50 years of construction, a national agricultural science and technology information research institution with considerable research and service functions has basically been formed.