Ten Years and Counting: Preserving and Sharing Colorado’s Agricultural History Online

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.     

Slicing and Dicing the Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Land Grant Research: A Survey of and Model for Digital Collections of Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Publications

The management and dissemination of agricultural experiment station and cooperative extension documents have been a challenge for over 100 years. Digitization of these documents, as well as the standardization and public dissemination that such projects can provide, represent both additional obstacles and possible solutions for addressing these challenges. The authors survey the current landscape of digital collections for agricultural experiment station and cooperative extension documents, after which they present a recent, efficient digitization project at the University of Idaho Library as a possible template for other institutions looking to digitize similar documents.     

The Electronic Information Era: A Vision of the Future–Paradigms and Paradoxes

ABSTRACT

Tuskegee University's involvement with the sweetpotato was initiated in the late 19th century by Dr. George Washington Carver. Carver's publications on the sweetpotato include information on the history and varieties of sweetpotatoes, their cultivation, insect and fungal problems, and their treatment, harvesting, storing, canning, and preparation for human consumption and animal feed. Carver developed more than 200 products from the sweetpotato. Today sweetpotato research at Tuskegee University includes: biotechnology and genetic engineering, development of growing systems for long term space missions, health benefits and utilization of sweetpotato greens, effects of elevated carbon dioxide levels on sweetpotato growth and biochemistry, breeding new varieties, new food and non-food uses, new market niches, non-chemical pest control, modeling sweetpotato growth, sustainable cropping systems, degradation of foliage and roots to form sugars and ethanol, and use in international development. The National Sweetpotato Information Center (NSPIC) was established in 1993 with funding from USDA as a cooperative effort of Tuskegee University, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Illinois. NSPIC goals include: materials collection; development of computer databases (materials, research and expert databases); digitization of full-text, non-copyrighted sweetpotato materials (using CD-ROM); teaching students and faculty to utilize NSPIC resources; and development of a network of people and institutions involved in sweetpotato research, production and utilization.     

Preservation of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin in the Digital Repository

To assist agricultural librarians in their new role as digital preservation and distribution specialists, this article documents the basic procedures for scanning and digitizing print agricultural serial publications and submitting them to a DSpace digital repository, through a case study of a project at Texas A&M University Libraries to digitize Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins. It is hoped that a dispersed network of similar agricultural materials in all the various land grant university digital repositories could be crawled to harvest the metadata records and make them accessible in a central user-friendly digital library for agriculture.     

Creating a Dietary Guidance Digital Collection

This article presents current efforts by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and the challenges and opportunities of gathering contemporary and historical federal dietary guidance publications into a digital collection. It begins with the history of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutrition research and its promotion of dietary recommendations. The article then discusses the background of this digital project, its audience, and its stakeholders. It examines NAL's strategies for collecting digital content and promoting the collection and concludes with implications for other research libraries undertaking similar projects.     

种猪数字化养殖平台的构建

目前,虽然中国规模化养猪业快速发展,但是饲养设施和技术手段与发达国家相比仍然相对落后。该文提出数字化种猪养殖平台,利用先进技术和管理方法提高养猪业效益。整个平台从种猪生产过程和个体信息的管理到数字化监管等方面作了详尽的阐述,并逐一给出平台中各组成子系统的构建方法,利用无线射频识别（RFID）、智能控制、网络传输等多项数字化技术和手段,完成平台的建设,包括饲料的自动输送和精细饲喂系统、猪舍环境智能化调控及数字化表达、猪只个体信息的数字化表达和猪舍实况的可视化监视、种猪养殖全过程的网络化监管。该平台作为内蒙古科技园区数字化养殖的具体示范实例,将数字化技术应用到种猪生产,体现了农牧业生产过程科技化的基本理念。     

Building on a Land-Grant Tradition: Engagement at the Mississippi State University Libraries

ABSTRACT

This paper discusses the need for land-grant libraries to develop services and projects in support of the mission of their universities. Projects developed at the Mississippi State University Libraries are discussed from the perspective of “engaged” library services. These services include outreach activities to academic departments, core instructional initiatives, support services to extension personnel (ELL), collaborative collection development projects (DigiTop Plus) and projects designed to preserve the state's agricultural history (CHARM).     

American Wine Society

This article describes the digitization of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station publications. This collection forms part of the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) National Preservation Program for Agricultural Literature and the State and Local Literature Preservation Projects that are similar in scope to Cornell's Core Historic Literature of Agriculture digital collection. These are nationwide projects that seek to preserve scholarly literature in agriculture. Project planning and implementation is described, followed by a discussion of the potential usefulness of this collection and ways of promoting its use to various user groups.     

Prospectus for the Field of Agriculture at the Oklahoma State University Library: A Local Report for Ithaka S+R Research and Support Services

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In 2016, the Oklahoma State University (OSU) Library was invited to participate in an Ithaka S+R research project with 19 other academic libraries from institutions with strong agricultural programs. This project documents agriculture research practices and needs and reflects a summary of findings from 10 interviews with OSU faculty researchers. This local report is to inform the Library's support for research of the OSU's agricultural faculty. The report was completed on December 1, 2016.     

Transplant experiments on rare plant species from Upper Teesdale

An account is given of an attempt, over a period of 10 years, to preserve, in cultivation, living plants of the Upper Teesdale flora. The plants, many of which are arctic-alpines, were grown at the Experimental Grounds of Manchester University at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire.The most successful species were Carex paupercula, C. capillaris, Viola rupestris, V. rupestris × riviniana, Galium boreale, Draba incana and Tofieldia pusilla. Limited success was achieved with Antennaria dioica, Carex ericetorum, Juncus alpinoarticulatus and Thalictrum alpinum. In spite of showing promise in the early stages, Gentiana verna and Primula farinosa were failures.Cultural methods and possible improvements are discussed. Observations on growth and reproduction are made and briefly compared with a parallel experiment at Durham University. The value of the project is assessed.     

A Serials Cancellation Project at the University of Kentucky

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The state of serials publications in science, technology, and medicine has reached a crisis stage for academic libraries and librarians. Limited budgets have made it difficult to provide the latest research to faculty and students. This paper discusses the general background of the problem and efforts at the University of Kentucky to begin dealing with this crisis during its 2004–05 serials cancellation project. Also examined are the history of the serials problem in academic libraries and the complications and immediate outcomes of this particular cancellation project, along with questions and concerns that still need to be addressed.     

Collecting crop genetic resources in Italian towns of Albanian origin across the Molise,Calabria and Sicily regions

A project on collecting and safeguarding crop genetic resources in Italian linguistic islands by the Institute of Plant Genetics (IGV) of the National Research Council (CNR) of Bari (Italy) and the Institute of Crop Science of Kassel University (Germany) started in 1996 with a first mission in Italian towns (Basilicata region) of Albanian origin. In 2008 three other regions (Calabria, Molise and Sicily) were visited with the same aim. Ninety-six accessions belonging to 38 taxa were collected from 23 collecting sites. The Albanian linguistic islands still preserve valuable crop genetic resources that are severely threatened by genetic erosion. To halt this phenomenon a good example comes from Molise where the municipal government and scientific sector are starting to co-operate in the preservation of genetic diversity.     

基于Web of Science文献计量学分析的全球老年食品研究进展

为深入了解国内外老年食品的研究现状和研究热点,该研究基于Web of Science核心合集(SCI-E)数据库,采用文献计量学理论和可视化分析技术,对1990～2020年全球老年食品研究文献进行分析,以为中国老年食品的研究和开发提供参考。全球有64个国家/地区、852个研究机构,236种期刊开展了老年食品研究,跨区域合作、多学科交叉融合频繁,美国、日本、法国、加拿大、中国等国家均表现出较大的研究体量和较强的合作关系,美国、荷兰老年食品研究的总体质量较高,优势研究机构大多位于欧美等发达国家,研究领域主要集中于营养学、食品科学技术、老年医学等,重点关注膳食补充、健康状况和相关风险。研究前沿有粮食不安全(food insecurity)、健康状况(health status)、生活质量(quality of life)、康复(rehabilitation)、超重(overweight)、有效性(validity)、吞咽困难(dysphagia)、滋味(taste)等。中国老年食品以糊粉类为主,分类混乱、结构单一、科技含量低,与美国、日本、荷兰等国相比还有较大的差距。中国作为世界上人口最多的国家,在人口老龄化加速发展的关键时期,老年食品的研发显得尤为迫切和重要。因此,未来老年食品研究应以老年医学和营养学理论为基础,重点开发营养强化食品和功能性食品,加强食品的感官修饰研究力度,以满足老年人营养和健康的多元化需求,积极应对全球人口老龄化问题。     

Bibliometric Profile of an Agbioscience Research Enhancement Grant Program

This study is a bibliometric analysis of journal articles generated from an intramural grant program in the agbiosciences. Using citation analysis and bibliometric mapping, the study analyzes 515 journal articles published from 1999 to 2017. Results show the growth of journal article output, identify the major research fields and topics, describe national and international authorial and institutional collaborations, and quantify the performance and impact of the article output. The grant program’s journal article output presents a multi-disciplinary range of scholarly publications that reflect the disciplines of The Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, which houses the grant program.     

基于Web的数字农业系统平台研究与设计

数字农业系统是一个集信息化、数字化、网络化与自动化等多种现代高新技术为一体的,融合现代农业技术的智能化农业生产、管理和应用系统。在充分分析数字农业系统的研究意义、内涵和研究内容的基础上,给出了网络环境下数字农业系统的总体设计思路、方法和架构,并详细探讨了数字农业系统核心功能模块的主要功能及设计结构,以及未来物联网环境下数字农业系统,乃至智能农业系统地研究发展方向和趋势。     

王祯《农书》在文献学、数字化方面的现状研究

王祯《农书》是中国第一部全局性的农书,在农史上占有重要地位。本文从文献学角度,对关于《农书》的著作和论文进行了归类;同时也从数字化方面,把包含《农书》的数字化成果列举出来,作了探讨。     

Hydrologic regime and the conservation of salmon life history diversity

Life history diversity of imperiled Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. substantially contributes to their persistence, and conservation of such diversity is a critical element of recovery efforts. Preserving and restoring diversity of life history traits depends in part on environmental factors affecting their expression. We analyzed relationships between annual hydrograph patterns and life history traits (spawn timing, age at spawning, age at outmigration, and body size) of Puget Sound Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) to identify environmental indicators of current and historic diversity. Based on mean monthly flow patterns, we identified three hydrologic regimes: snowmelt-dominated, rainfall-dominated, and transitional. Chinook populations in snowmelt-dominated areas contained higher proportions of the stream-type life history (juvenile residence >1 year in freshwater), had older spawners, and tended to spawn earlier in the year than populations in rainfall-dominated areas. There are few extant Puget Sound populations dominated by the stream-type life history, as several populations with high proportions of stream-type fish have been extirpated by construction of dams that prevent migration into snowmelt-dominated reaches. The few extant populations are thus a high priority for conservation. The low level of genetic distinction between stream-type and ocean-type (juvenile residence <1 year in freshwater) life histories suggests that allowing some portion of extant populations to recolonize habitats above dams might allow re-expression of suppressed life history characteristics, creating a broader spatial distribution of the stream-type life history. Climate change ultimately may limit the effectiveness of some conservation efforts, as stream-type Chinook may be dependent on a diminishing snowmelt-dominated habitat.     

Agricultural Research Practices through a Local Lens: Adapting the Ithaka S + R Study for Your Campus

How do the research practices and challenges of agriculture scholars at the University of Idaho (U of I) contrast with those of their peers at other land grant universities? To answer that question, this paper compares qualitative data from U of I researchers to findings from a nationwide study of agricultural research practices. Because the U of I did not participate in the nationwide study, this local study provides a framework for identifying issues that are unique to researchers within our local context. Furthermore, the paper demonstrates how a similar methodology can be used by library liaisons to better understand the challenges of researchers in any discipline and help determine which new and existing research support services best meet their needs.     

大型蛋鸡养殖场数字化应用平台设计

针对我国大型蛋鸡养殖场在生产管理信息化方面存在的不足,构建了大型蛋鸡养殖场的数字化平台。该平台包含了基于以太网的信息获取模块、基于音视频的远程交互式诊断系统和基于B／S架构的生产信息管理模块,通过对信息的整合,为生产管理与决策提供了更多的数据和技术支持。将该系统应用于大型养殖场,有利于提高管理效率和生产效益,为解决家禽规模化养殖在信息技术应用方面的瓶颈提供一个解决方案。