4. Plan of Work--Project Administration

4.1 PROJECT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES


The goals and objectives of this project are:

To preserve and improve access to a critical mass of the most significant publications documenting the
history of agriculture and rural life in a diverse cross-section of states.

 to systematically identify the relevant publishing in each state, raising our preservation sights
 beyond the holdings of any given library to scrutiny of the total universe of publishing within
 the subject scope;

 to involve scholars and librarians in evaluating this universe of publishing, ranking individual
 titles to set preservation priorities;

 to microfilm the top 25% of the brittle titles in each state ranked as most important for
 humanities research, about 4,376 titles in 8,491 volumes;

 to preserve and catalog target materials.

To continue the momentum of the NATIONAL PRESERVATION PROGRAM FOR AGRICULTURAL
LITERATURE by having the states fulfill their responsibility for preserving state and local publications.

 to replicate and adapt through the experience of fifteen states the Cornell model for
 preservation of state and local level literature, and to publish an article on the project and its
 methods;

 to create an Internet accessible database of the title lists from each state, including both
 preserved and unpreserved titles, complete with rankings, to guide any future preservation work
 on the balance of the universe;

 to stimulate other coordinated projects to meet the goals of the National Preservation Program
 for Agricultural Literature.

To provide additional institutions with substantive experience in the practice of systematic, discipline-
based preservation; and to advance the concept of discipline based, cooperative preservation.

 to continue to adapt and extend the RLG and CIC models for cooperative preservation to a
 discipline-based approach;

 to ensure that selection, preservation and access standards for quality and productivity are
 maintained across the project through proper administration, training, and coordination;

 to address methodological problems in the evolving disciplinary approach to cooperative
 preservation, including bibliographical analysis issues and methods of interlibrary cooperation.


4.2 PROJECT ADMINISTRATION


The project will be implemented and administered through the auspices of the Albert R. Mann Library,
Cornell University. Sam Demas, Head, Collection Development and Preservation, will serve as Project