History of Project: The United States Agricultural
Information Network (USAIN) established the National Program for
the Preservation of Agricultural Literature in 1996. The preservation
of the literature vas envisioned to be a cooperative effort of
land-grant libraries and the National Agricultural Library.
Mann Library, Cornell University, had already undertaken to preserve
the core national literature, ie, the most essential scholarly
books and journals published pre 1945. This core was identified
using both qualitative and quantitative methods of evaluation,
including ranking of titles by over 600 scholars around the world.
The bibliographies of the selected titles are presented in a series
of seven volumes, The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences
(Cornell University Press). The works themselves are being preserved
on microfilm and a digital file created to provide access on a
not-for-profit basis to libraries and scholars.
Cornell University, on behalf of USAIN, and in cooperation with
other land grant university libraries, has received subsequent
grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to
preserve the most significant published materials on the history
of state and local agriculture and rural life. The grant
project uses a model developed for the National Preservation Program
for Agricultural Literature, partnering scholars and librarians
to identify and preserve the most significant agricultural literature
of a state.
As part of this nation-wide effort to preserve state and local
agricultural and rural life literature, North Dakota has joined
with 17 other states involved in this program: New York, Alabama,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, California, Florida, Nebraska, Kansas,
New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Hawaii, Montana, Arkansas,
Arizona, Iowa and Minnesota. The eventual goal is to complete
this preservation program in all 50 states. As specified by the
preservation model, the NDSU Library will develop a bibliography
focused on North Dakota materials: published books, periodicals,
pamphlets, reports, theses and other materials that depict the
agricultural and rural history of North Dakota and Dakota Territory.
Items in the bibliography will be ranked by a panel of experts,
and those evaluated as most important will be microfilmed according
to the strict quidelines and standards established for archival
preservation.
National
Agricultural Library Preservation Projects page
USAIN
National Preservation page
National
Project Web Site
Scope
: explanation of type of publications, subject coverage
and subject exclusions.
Progress
Progress
Summary
Bibliography
Microfilmed Titles: Search
NDSU catalog for titles microfilmed and cataloged
Members of Panel
Dr. H. Roald Lund
Professor of Plant Sciences, NDSU (retired)
Former Dean of the NDSU College of Agriculture and Director
of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station.
Dr. Gary A. Goreham
Associate Professor Dept of Sociology/Anthropology, NDSU
Dr David B. Danbom
Professor of History, NDSU
Dr. Barbara Handy-Marchello
Professor of History, UND
Ex-Officio member:
John E. Bye
Archivist, Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU and University
Archivist
North Dakota Project administrators
Kathie Richardson
Agricultural Sciences Librarian, NDSU Libraries
701-231-8879
Kathie.Richardson@ndsu.edu
John E. Bye
Archivist, Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, and University
Archivist
701-231-8877
John.Bye@ndsu.edu
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Last Updated: March 11, 2008