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
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
Disciplinary Approach to Preservation, Access,
and Shared print
 Looking beyond the holdings of any one library to
literature of a discipline.
 Premises:
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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
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Cooperative action on part of many libraries
National Preservation Plan for Ag & Rural Life
 National Preservation Program for Agriculture - est. 1993
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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
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Preservation of print originals,
Shared print archive for the corpus
 Distributed archive model
 Formal MOU/agreement re retention commitment and disclosure
requirements
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Access via digital surrogates when available
Next generation of projects
National Preservation Plan – simplified
Seed
catalogs,
Soil
survey
maps, etc.
Shared
Print
1. Core Historical Literature, 1850-1950
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Ag Economics and Rural Sociology
Ag Engineering
Animal Science
Crop Improvement and Protection
Food Science and Human Nutrition
Forestry
Soils
 For essays and lists:
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http://chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/about.html
Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, WC Olsen, Series Editor
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Cornell University Press, 1991 – 1996, 7 volumes
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 ????
2. State and Local Literature
 Each state:
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Essay on agriculture and rural life in the state
Bibliography identifying the universe of publishing
Scholars and librarians rank
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Top priority, second priority, not worth preserving
 Preserve:
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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
2. State and Local Literature
Brown & Black = not yet participated
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.
WEST
ASERL/Scholar
s Trust
USAIN/
Land Grant
Universities
Etc., etc…
CIC
HathiTrust
Biodiversity
Heritage
Library
Exploring Overlapping programs
& potential synergies for agriculture
Towards Shared Print for Agriculture
 Update National Preservation Plan
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Incorporate “Home Economics”/HEARTH
Technology, shared print, etc.
Priorities and programs
New membership/partnership models
 USAIN National Symposium on Preservation Planning –
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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!
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:
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Talk to us about how we can work together!
Consider membership/partnership!
Consider attending the USAIN National Symposium May 2014!