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National Plan for Preservation & Access: a discipline or domain approach

National Plan for Preservation & Access: a discipline or domain approach. Agriculture, Rural life & Home economics Updating a national plan for u.s. land grant universities To include shared print Amy Wood and Sam Demas Print archiving network June 28, 2013.

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National Plan for Preservation & Access: a discipline or domain approach

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  1. National Plan for Preservation & Access: a discipline or domain approach Agriculture, Rural life & Home economics Updating a national plan for u.s. land grant universities To include shared print Amy Wood and Sam Demas Print archiving network June 28, 2013

  2. CRL and USAIN Partnership & Roles USAIN - United States Agricultural Information Network- est. 1989) Cornell University & National Agricultural Library Center for Research Libraries, Project CERES Sam Demas, Sr. Collections Advisor for Agriculture

  3. Disciplinary Approach to Preservation, Access, and Shared print • Looking beyond the holdings of any one library to literature of a discipline. • Premises: • Ensuring nation’s food security and natural resources • Multi-generational program • Strategic approach • Careful selection for preservation • Users involved in setting priorities • Cost-effective approaches • Cooperative action on part of many libraries

  4. National Preservation Plan for Ag & Rural Life • National Preservation Program for Agriculture - est. 1993 • Framework for cooperative preservation and access among land grant colleges and universities • Anatomy of U.S. agriculture and rural life, with plan and priorities • Continuity of effort over generations, updated as landscape changes • Repositioning the program for early 21st century • Preservation of print originals, • Shared print archive for the corpus • Distributed archive model • Formal MOU/agreement re retention commitment and disclosure requirements • Access via digital surrogates when available • Next generation of projects

  5. National Preservation Plan – simplified Seed catalogs, Soil survey maps, etc. Shared Print

  6. 1. Core Historical Literature, 1850-1950 • Ag Economics and Rural Sociology • Ag Engineering • Animal Science • Crop Improvement and Protection • Food Science and Human Nutrition • Forestry • Soils • For essays and lists: • http://chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/about.html • Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, WC Olsen, Series Editor • Cornell University Press, 1991 – 1996, 7 volumes

  7. 1. Core Historical Literature, 1850-1950 • Identified using: • Citation analysis • Scholarly review • Books • 4,494 identified • At least 3,100 digitized (69%) • Journals: • 339 identified • % digitized ????

  8. 2. State and Local Literature • Each state: • Essay on agriculture and rural life in the state • Bibliography identifying the universe of publishing • Scholars and librarians rank • Top priority, second priority, not worth preserving • Preserve: • Top ranked material • As much second rank as possible • Leave lists prioritized lists of materials yet to be preserved • Access: film and digital • 30 states have participated so far

  9. 2. State and Local Literature Brown & Black= not yet participated

  10. Steps Towards Shared Print for Agriculture • Assess progress on national plan: • Complete digitization of CHLA, State and Local, etc. • Scale up distributed archiving model of Project CERES • Explore funding, partnerships, & cooperation: • Funding for increased digitization & archive building • for U.S. government documents & other genres • with other shared print programs • Biodiversity Heritage, HathiTrust, etc.

  11. ASERL/Scholars Trust WEST USAIN/ Land Grant Universities Etc., etc… HathiTrust CIC Biodiversity Heritage Library Exploring Overlapping programs & potential synergies for agriculture

  12. Towards Shared Print for Agriculture • Update National Preservation Plan • Incorporate “Home Economics”/HEARTH • Technology, shared print, etc. • Priorities and programs • New membership/partnership models • USAINNational Symposium on Preservation Planning – May 2014 – potential outcomes: • Adopt updated National Preservation Plan • Ratify plan and terms for Shared Print Archiving • Discussion of idea of portal for access to digital files • Funding plan: grants, membership, corporate support, etc. • Scaled-up Shared Print Program in 2014!

  13. Collaboration and cooperation • This is about cooperation, not competition! • Join us in this effort! • Share your thoughts about how the growing numbers of shared print programs fit together and can be coordinated! • If you have interest in agriculture, natural resources, food, water, nutrition, human development, family studies, public health, & development studies: • Talk to us about how we can work together! • Consider membership/partnership! • Consider attending the USAIN National Symposium May 2014!

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