5. Preservation Profiles


The University of California, Berkeley, Library Conservation Department secured bids for producing
preservation microfilm from Bay Microfilm, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) and the Departments' own
Library Photographic Service (LPS). In past projects, they have also used the services of University
Microfilms. For the current project, LPS services will be used for microfilm production. LPS prices are
comparable to those of the commercial sector and also offer the high quality needed for the product.
Using LPS allows project cost savings in regard to packing and shipping of materials and continued
access (if needed) by patrons. LPS is experienced in preservation microfilming of archival and printed
library materials and has completed filming which meets ANSI/AIIM specifications and RLG guidelines
for a number of NEH sponsored projects.

California Scholarly Review Panel

Morton Rothstein is Professor Emeritus at University of California, Davis; he has been in the History
Department since 1984, and is widely known in the field of agricultural history. He received his BA.
from Brooklyn College in 1954, and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1960. Prior to obtaining his
doctorate, Professor Rothstein did postgraduate work at the London School of Economics from 1956-57.
He taught at the University of Delaware, then went on to hold several positions at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison; he was a professor of history and agricultural economics until 1984, and chaired the
department from 1969-72. Prof. Rothstein is a member and officer of numerous prestigious
organizations and associations in agricultural history, and was an NEH Fellow from 1976-77 and 1983.
He served as the Editor of Agricultural History from 1984 to 1994, and has published extensively. His
research is primarily in American agricultural history, the late nineteenth century United States, and the
antebellum southern economy. Major publications which he has edited or authored include: The History
of California Agriculture : an Updated Bibliography (1991); Outstanding in his Field : Perspectives on
American Agriculture in honor of Wayne D. Rasmussen (1993); Quantitative Studies in Agrarian History
(1993); and The California Wheat Kings (1987).

Ann Foley Scheuring is a noted writer in the field of California agriculture, especially in the history of
the state and university. She worked at the University of California, Davis as an editor and writer.
Although she took early retirement in 1992, she has continued her affiliation with UC Davis as a frequent
consultant on projects and publications. She graduated from the University of Portland, earned a
Master's degree in English at the University of California, Berkeley, and taught English literature and
composition for a number of years at colleges in California and Illinois. In 1974 Ann moved with her
family to Davis, where she earned a second Master's degree in community education. She served eight
years on the Yolo County Planning Commission and is active in numerous community organizations.
She and her husband David, a walnut grower, live on a farm in the Capay Valley along Cache Creek. Her
major publications include A Guidebook to California Agriculture (1983)--a standard reference on the
state's farming economy; Competition of California Water (1982), a collection of studies relating to the
state's water resources. She was co-editor of Global Climate Change and California (1991), a collection
relating to the possible impact of projected climate change. In 1988 she published A Sustaining
Comradeship: The Story of University of California Cooperative Extension, 1913-1988. Most recently
 she produced Science and Service: a History of the Land Grant University and Agriculture in California
 (1995). She is also the editor of numerous shorter publications.

 Dr. Garrison Sposito, Professor of Soil Physics and Chemistry in the Department of Environmental
 Science Policy and Management at the University of California, is well known in the fields of soil science
 and minerals. He received his Ph.D. from Berkeley, and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors.
 He was a Fulbright Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and
 the Soil Science Society of America. He has served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on
 Women in Science and Engineering since 1990. He has authored numerous books and articles in the
 fields of environmental and physical chemistry, most recently Chemical Equilibria and Kinetics in Soils
 (Oxford University Press, 1994). He is particularly interested in the history of soils research, and has been