Dataset associated with the Colorado Agriculture Bibliography NEH & USAIN Project

Level, Allison V.; Standish, Sierra

Dataset associated with the Colorado Agriculture Bibliography NEH & USAIN Project

dc.contributor.author	Level, Allison V.
dc.contributor.author	Standish, Sierra
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-10T23:47:10Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-10T23:47:10Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description	The Colorado Agriculture Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Material Published 1820-1945 was part of a NEH grant project with research conducted 2004-2007. The dataset includes bibliographic information (i.e. title, author, format-book, photograph archival collection, subject headings, etc.) for about 16,000 records about Colorado’s agricultural and rural past. Some items were later digitized and placed in the CSU Library digital repository (see: https://archives.mountainscholar.org/digital/collection/p17393coll63). Items with a link (URL/permlink) are available as full-text. The topics covered in this project are varied but include agriculture, education, water, mining, tourism, recreation, and more. The bibliography contains information about but not full-text for books, journals, dissertations, theses, archival collections, maps, photos, pamphlets, and more. The Web site and bibliography reflects Colorado’s contribution to the Preserving the History of United States Agriculture and Rural Life Project. This nation-wide effort aims to identify and preserve state and locally significant literature. The project involves the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Cornell University, the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN), the National Agricultural Library (NAL), and other land-grant universities.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	As family farms disappear from the landscape, most Americans do not have contact with the agricultural roots of the country. More than ever, the historical literature that helps in telling the story of American farming needs protection. The Preserving the History of United States Agriculture and Rural Life Project, administered by Cornell University, calls for states to identify and list important agricultural literature for preservation purposes. This paper discusses the Colorado project and highlights the scope and identification of materials and the organization of a Web-searchable bibliographic database. Because Colorado began to participate after approximately half of the states had completed bibliographies, staff could access already-tested methodologies for scope descriptions, subject headings, and other "how-to" processes. By using the lessons learned by others, staff were able to expand the scope, capture extra records, and design a nuanced Web site as a portal to the bibliography.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	The project including partial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEH).	en_US
dc.format.medium	PDF
dc.format.medium	XLSX
dc.format.medium	CSV
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10217/236268
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.25675/10217/236268
dc.language	English	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	Colorado State University. Libraries	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Research Data
dc.relation.isreferencedby	Level, A. V., & Standish, S. (2007). Standing on the shoulders of others: taking an agricultural bibliography project into the 21st century. Journal of Agricultural & Food Information, 8(1), 15–33. https://doi.org/10.1300/J108v08n01_04	en_US
dc.relation.isreferencedby	Watson, R. J., Level, A. V., & Oehlerts, B. (2019). Ten years and counting: preserving and sharing Colorado’s agricultural history online. Journal of Agricultural & Food Information, 20(3), 206–219. https://doi.org/10.1080/10496505.2019.1576529	en_US
dc.rights.license	This data is open access and distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Colorado agriculture bibliography	en_US
dc.subject	rural life and agricultural topics	en_US
dc.subject	NEH	en_US
dc.subject	USAIN	en_US
dc.subject	Colorado State University	en_US
dc.subject	Colorado Agbib	en_US
dc.subject	CO	en_US
dc.title	Dataset associated with the Colorado Agriculture Bibliography NEH & USAIN Project	en_US
dc.type	Dataset	en_US