Ten Years and Counting: Preserving and Sharing Colorado's Agricultural History Online. Issue 3 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Watson, Renae J.; Level, Allison V.; Oehlerts, Beth
• Is Part Of: Journal of agricultural & food information. Volume 20:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 206
• Page End: 219
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: agricultural documents -- LibGuides -- USAIN -- NEH grant -- digitization; Agriculture -- Information services -- Periodicals; Food -- Information services -- Periodicals; Agriculture -- Information resources -- Periodicals; Food -- Information resources -- Periodicals; Communication in agriculture -- Periodicals; 026.6305
• DOI: 10.1080/10496505.2019.1576529
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1049-6505

Abstract

Abstract: Colorado State University Libraries (CSUL) support the preservation of agricultural history, as evidenced by their participation in the Preserving the History of United States Agriculture and Rural Life: State and Local Literature, 1820–1945 project, administered by Cornell University. This article reviews CSUL's work on this preservation project, including digitization of historical agriculture-related documents. CSUL's latest effort to keep agricultural literature relevant and accessible includes moving the Colorado Agriculture Bibliography website to Springshare's LibGuides platform (https://libguides.colostate.edu/agbib ). Advantages and challenges of using the LibGuides platform for the promotion and sharing of such collections are discussed.