United States Agricultural Information Network

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The United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) provides a forum for issues in agricultural information, guides U.S. national information policy for agriculture, and advises the National Agricultural Library. [1] [2]

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History

The original network was based on a recommendation from the 1982 Interagency Panel of the National Agricultural Library (NAL). [3] It was officially launched in 1988. It consisted of a network of public and private agricultural libraries and information centers coordinated by the NAL. Originally, the Executive Council was composed of representatives from land grant and other institutions, and the director of NAL, in an ex-officio capacity. By 1995, the Executive Committee moved from an organization-based network to an individual-based organization, transferring the responsibility for the operations to individuals. At the 1995 USAIN Conference held in Lexington, Kentucky, a slate of grassroots-working agricultural information professionals emerged as the new Executive Council. [4]

Activities

Conferences

USAIN holds biennial conferences on current themes in agricultural information. This includes collection management and preservation, data management and scholarly communication, curriculum and instruction, outreach and marketing, and national information policy.

National Preservation Program

USAIN’s preservation plan for agricultural literature, one of the first discipline-based plans, obtained several rounds of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and resulted in 29 state projects, [5] [6] [7] [8]

USAIN recently partnered with Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) [9] and the Center for Research Libraries on Project Ceres, which awards funding for “small projects that preserve print materials essential to the study of the history and economics of agriculture and make those materials accessible through digitization.” [10]

Presidents

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ Hutchinson, B. S.; A. Paris-Greider, Eds. 2002. Using the agricultural, environmental, and food literature. New York: Marcel Dekker. p.288. (Books in library and information science: 61)
  2. ↑ Miller, W. and Pellen, R. M. Eds. Evolving Internet Reference Resources. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Information Press. 2006.
  3. ↑ National Agricultural Library Assessment Report. 2001.
  4. ↑ Thomas, S.E. 1989. United States Agricultural Information Network: genesis of a cooperative organization. Special Libraries 80, 113-117.
  5. ↑ UK Libraries garners national funding to preserve state’s literature on agriculture and rural life. 2006. Southeastern Librarian; Winter 2006/2007, 54(4) p.16
  6. ↑ Paster, A. & Paulson, J. 2013. Curating Collective Collections -- Agriculture and Rural Life: A Discipline or Domine-Based Approach to Preservation and Access. Against the Grain, 25(2), 79-81
  7. ↑ Foster, C. D. (2001). Fertile fields: The United States agricultural information network preservation project in Alabama. Alabama Review; APR.(54)
  8. ↑ Demas, S. (1997) USAIN National Preservation Program for Agricultural Literature. Quarterly bulletin of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists = Bulletin trimestriel de l'Association internationale des specialistes de l'information agricole. 42(2) pp. 71–72
  9. ↑ National Research Council (U.S.) Committee for a future strategy for transportation information management/ Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. Transportation Knowledge Networks: a management strategy for the 21st century. P. 41-42. (Special report; 284)
  10. ↑ Center for Research Libraries. Global resources agriculture partnership: project CERES. Chicago: Center for Research Libraries.
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