5. Preservation Profiles


newspapers and more than 3,000 single or scattered issues. Approximately 3,300 catalog records and
9,600 holdings records were created or updated by the end of the project in 1993. The Arkansas Union
List of Newspapers was also created as one of the end products.

Although the University Libraries does not have a separate conservation or preservation department, it
does have staff and appropriate equipment to microfilm materials on a selected basis. This work is
administered through the Special Collections Division, where the filming of newspapers, serials,
monographs, and archival materials is handled. The Arkansas Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin is an
example of one of the more recent titles that was filmed. The University Libraries also has a separate
Binding Department with a staff of three to coordinate work with a private vendor as well as administering
in-house preservation needs.

University of Arkansas USAIN Project Staff

Michael J. Dabrishus, head of Special Collections at the University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, will
serve as project manager. He will be responsible for the overall success of the project including attending
project meetings and directing the work of the Scholarly Review Panel. Lutishoor Salisbury, reference
librarian for agriculture, will be responsible for creating the bibliography of material pertaining to
agriculture and rural sociology. She will also travel to libraries in Arkansas that are known to have
relevant materials and create a preliminary lis tof titles. She will also supervise the library Assistant II,
who will be responsible for internet and OCLC searches.

The Project team will be ably assisted by a scholarly panel of historians and scientists with extensive
experience in the study of Arkansas agriculture and rural life.

Arkansas Scholarly Review Panel

Donald E. Voth received his Ph.D. in rural sociology from Cornell University in 1969. He served as
assistant and associate professor of sociology and community development at Southern Illinois University
from 1969 to 1974. He has been an associate professor and professor of rural sociology in the
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
since 1974. His areas of specialization include rural sociology, community development, and Southeast
Asia Studies. Dr. Voth has published widely on community development, small farm and structure of
agricultural issues, international development, and evaluation. "A Diagnosis of the Forest Service's 'Social
Context'" and "Selective Migration and the Educational 'Brain Drain' from the Lower Mississippi Delta
Region in 1975-1980" are simply two of his more recent journal articles. Dr. Voth has served committee
appointments in the Rural Sociology Society, the Community Development Society, and the Association
for Farming Systems Research/Extension. Currently he serves on the Council of the Southern Sustainable
Agriculutral Research and Education Program, and as chairman of the Ouachita National Forest's
Ecosystem Management Advisory Committee. During the last twenty years Dr. Voth has worked
extensively with the community development program of Agricultural Education and the Future Farmers
of America, Building our American Communities, for which he was awarded the title "Honorary
American Farmer" in 1983. In April 1995, he served with a team assessing the USAID-funded and NGO-
implemented Productive Land Use Systems project in Haiti; in February and March of 1996, he was team
leader for a USAID evaluation of the Southern African Coordinating Commission for Agricultural
Research in Botswana, and in July of 1996 he led a faculty-student team to perform an assessment of the
potential of the former Dauphin Plantation area of northeastern Haiti.

Jeannie M. Whayne received her Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, in 1989. She taught
for one year (1989-1990) at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, before accepting
a faculty position with the Department of History at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. In addition
to her teaching responsibilities, Whayne is editor of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, an assignment that