5. Preservation Profiles

she has held since her arrival. She is also Secretary-Treasurer of the Arkansas Historical Association.
Since 1990 she has published four articles, edited two books, co-edited two books, and published one
book on her own. A book that she co-edited, Arkansas Delta: Land of Paradox, won the Virginia C.
Ledbetter Prize in 1993. Another book that she co-edited, The Governors of Arkansas, received a
Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History in 1996. She received an
unprecedented second Commendation that same year for the book she edited entitled Cultural
Encounters in the Early South: Indians and Europeans in Arkansas. She has presented papers at
professional conferences and has received two fellowships: one was a pre-doctoral fellowship at the
Smithsonian Institution in 1987-1988; the other a post-doctoral fellowship at the Carter Woodson
Institute in 1992-1993. The latter fellowship provided her with the opportunity to revise her dissertation
for publication, resulting in A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth
Century Arkansas, (1996). She has served committee appointments in the Agricultural History Society,
the Southern Historical Association, and the Southern Association of Women Historians. She was
recently elected to serve a three-year term as secretary-treasurer of the Conference of Historical Journals.

Roy C. Rom received his Ph.D. in horticulture and soils from the University of Wisconsin in 1958. He
taught at the University of Arkansas from 1958 until his retirement in 1990. His courses included tree
fruit science, concepts in temperate zone pomology, freshmen scholars seminar, and graduate
colloquium. During his professional career he conducted research in the following areas of Pomology:
rootstocks; nutrition; cultivar evaluation; and herbicides. -He was also active in peach and apple breeding
programs. The apple cultivar Arkcharm that he developed was recently released in Europe, and others
are pending release in the United States. He has had over two hundred publications in professional
journals, proceedings of professional meetings, popular magazines, and newsletters. For four years he
wrote the monthly column "Research Resource and Review" for Peach Times. He was senior editor for
the book Rootstock for Fruit Crops (1987). He wrote five chapters for the book The Peach (1990).
Included among his numerous awards are the following: National Peach Council Distinguished Service
Award, 1984; International Dwarf Fruit Tree Association Service Award, 1983; American Pomological
Society Wilder Medal, 1985; Gerber Products Agriculture Achievement Award, 1987; and Fellow of the
American Society for Horticultural Science, 1981. Dr. Rom is also the owner and manager of the Rom
Family Apple Orchard.

University of Arkansas Plan of Work and Project Budget

Over the course of the project, the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville Libraries, 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 Arkansas and the South. The project will employ a three-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 9,000 volumes to be preserved
in a subsequent project.

Project Budget

Identification (staff and online searching) $ 18,093
Travel in-state to identify and locate materials 3,000
Selection by scholarly review panel 1,350
project management 2,160
travel to project meetings 2,000

Total project cost $ 26,603