5. Preservation Profiles


1995). He has published over 70 book chapters, journal articles, published symposia and extension
publications.

Dr. Thomas E. Sheridan is Curator of Ethnohistory at the Arizona State Museum and Adjunct Associate
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork and
historical research in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico since 1971 and received his
Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. From 1982-84, he directed the Mexican Heritage
Project of the Arizona Historical Society under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Currently he works in association with the Documentary Relations of the Southwest at the Arizona State
Museum. Dr. Sheridan has written or co-edited ten books and monographs including Los Tucsonenses:
The Mexican Community of Tucson, 1854-1941, Arizona: A History, and Paths of Life: American
Indians of the Southwest and Northern Mexico. Dr. Sheridan also edits the SMRC-Newsletter, the
quarterly publication of the Southwestern Mission Research Center, of which he is a member of the board
of directors. Honors include Certification of Commendation from the American Association of State and
Local History for publications on Arizona history. Upcoming publications include Contested Ground:
comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire in the Americas
(1998) and The Southwest: A Cultural History (1997).

University of Arizona Plan of Work and Project Budget

Over the course of the project, the University of Arizona Library, in cooperation with other libraries in
the state, will develop a comprehensive bibliography of published materials important to the study of
agriculture and rural life in Arizona and the Southwest. The project will employ a four-person scholarly
review panel to rank titles according to their priority as research resources for humanities studies, and
target the most important 25% of a universe of approximately 4,000 volumes to be preserved in a
subsequent project.

Project Budget

Identification (staff and online searching) $ 14,380
Travel in-state to identify and locate materials 1,500
Selection by scholarly review panel 2,000
project management 3,840
travel to project meetings 2,000

Total project cost $ 23,720


5.2 ARKANSAS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS,
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As the largest research library in the state, the University of Arkansas Libraries has been involved with
preservation activities both within the library and statewide. In the early 1980s, the University Libraries
participated in the National Agricultural Library Cooperative Project for agricultural publications.
Materials filmed as part of this endeavor include Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station circulars,
special reports, leaflets, bulletins, and annual reports, as well as similar materials from the Arkansas
Agricultural Extension Service.

Beginning in 1986, in cooperation with the Arkansas History Commission, the University Libraries served
as project site for the Arkansas Newspaper Project. Supported in large part by the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the Newspaper Project helped to preserve (via microfilm) over 1,150 volumes of