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2007 AERO Conference, October 10-13 , University of California , Davis
Thursday Oct 11 th , rm 2102 Humanities/Social Sciences Building, UC Davis.
Present: Rebecca Bernthal , Mary Dugan, Katherine Faulkner, Eboni Francis, Susan Garbarino, Barbara Hegenbart, Julie Kelly, Louise Letnes, Margaret Merrill, Wayne Olson, Luti Salisbury, Joe Zumalt.
Welcome: Greeted by Dr. Richard Howitt, Chair Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Davis
Introductions, sharing regarding our libraries.
Speaker: Dr. Michael Hanemann , Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California , Berkeley Climate Change and California
(See power point presentation)
Afternoon:
Speaker: Dr. Richard Howitt, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California , Davis Economics and Inter-disciplinary Research: California 's Delta Problems
(See power point presentation)
See his new book: Envisioning futures : for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Jay Lund, Ellen Hanak, William Fleenor, Richard Howitt, Jeffrey Mount and Peter Moyle. Public Policy Institute of California , 2007
Speaker: Dr. Colin Carter , Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California , Davis The Ethanol Boom.
(See power point presentation.)
Friday Oct 12,
Morning:
Tours of Shields Library:
Govt docs/Maps/GIS room: Kathy Stroud, GIS librarian kpstroud@ucdavis.edu
Wine Collection: Axel Borg, Wine Bibliographer, aeborg@ucdavis.edu
Special Collections: John Skarstad, Archivist, jlskarstad@ucdavis.edu
Afternoon:
Resource Sharing:
A-Louise Letnes, Julia Kelly University of Minnesota . Update on AgEcon Search.
1- New software:
AgEcon search completed a major move to new software this year, Dspace. There are quite a few new interface and functions including category browsing (ala JSTOR) and it will have persistent urls. One reason for this change was to give AgEcon search more of a web presence, for example allowing Google to find it.
Other new features: Added a blog, RSS feeds which will also be on individual institutions page so your most recent papers will appear.
Urls's from Old AgEcon are going to be forwarded to these new persisent urls later.
There was a team working on this project for over a year: a programmer, digital librarian, metadata person, web designer. They met every week—researching what software to migrate to. They chose Dspace because U Libraries would support the migration and wanted it to connect to the U of Minn repository.
27,000 records that needed to be looked at individually to be sure data was going into the right fields. Came up with 20 subject categories so people could browse that way—LL & JK assigned ALL of these headings—touched every record.
New version was launched/announced in New Zealand at Ag Econ conference in 2/07.
Still in process: the submission form; they are still using the old one and then will upload records from old AgEcon search. Keep in mind that this means that the new one is always lagging for 2 or 3 weeks—old AgEcon search is more accurate for now.
2-Content:
Growing well—28,000 papers. Journals have grown-they charge $50 a year if AgEcon to does data entry for journals.
Added appendixes of AJAE to AgEcon search, not the journal. This has been very well received.
Journal embargoes—Western Ag Econ folks abolished embargos so they can improve their web presence and raise impact factors. Maybe other journals will drop their embargoes.
Soliciting ideas for small press journals that might be good for AgEcon search—send them ideas.
Louise and Julie attended the IAAE conference in Australia in 2006. Their trip was funded by the Farm Foundation and the Australian Organizing Committee. A new outreach project was to do “20 min clinics” at the confernce on Refworks, finding who is citing you, impact factors, selecting the right index, poster design using power point. These were well attended in Australia . They did it at AAEA in Portland this year as well, but they were not as well attended because of when it was scheduled.
New Advisory Board:
Phil Pardee, Farm Foundation, ERS member, LEI in Netherlands . They meet once a year, ask for direction from them.
Outreach project this year has been to write library articles for the Exchange(AAEA newsletter).
ARS Agnic gave them some funds for digitizing. Are now SPARC partners.
***AgEcon Search received the Oberly Award from ACRL from the Science and Technology Section for Bibliography in the Agricultural or Natural Sciences.***
Congratulations!
LL & JK attended the AAEA publications committee. The committee were very impressed with AJAE appendixes going to AgEcon. AgEcon Search is trying to get their conference papers, the proceedings are issued 4 times per year.
B-Barbara Hegenbart, Agricultural and Resource Economics Library, UC Davis: UCD Cost Studies project:
Barbara reported on a successful digitization project she has begun this past year. She is working on digitizing all of the older Cost and Return Studies produced by UC Davis. See http://coststudies.ucdavis.edu/current.php. The access points are by crop, region, and year.
These are very popular publications—200,000 downloads a year. Digitizing 3500 cost and return studies 1937- those from 1950-1960's on poor paper. The studies show what it costs to grow a commodity in an area under certain conditions.
Digitization would keep these cost studies alive for the future. Giannini Foundation funded this project. GF paid for 2 students for 2 years and a new scanner $18,000 total.
Barbara also reported that the United Farm Workers contracts digitization project is complete now being housed on the GF site http://giannini.ucop.edu/ufw/index.html
C-Susan Garbarino, Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Library, UC Berkeley: Preserving rare USDA data: Federal State Market News Service microfilm preservation project. (see power point presentation)
D-Wayne Olson, National Agricultural Library: Update on the NALDR and AgSpace.
E-Luti Salisbury, University of Arkansas : Using Web of Knowledge to study faculty publishing and citation patterns.
Business Meeting, dinner, Friday Oct 12
New Presidents: Barbara Hegenbart, Susan Garbarino
New Treasury/Secretary: Mary Dugan
Next Conference: TENTATIVE :Fall 2009, University of Minnesota , Louise Letnes, Julie Kelly hosts