5. Preservation Profiles


Florida Scholarly Review Panel

Dr. Robert N. Lauriault, Visiting Assistant in Libraries and for the past five years Coordinator of the
Florida Agricultural History Project at the Department of Special Collections, George A. Smathers
Libraries, University of Florida has authored one monograph and one refereed article relating to Florida
agricultural history. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida in history with an
MA thesis relating to African agricultural history and a prize-winning dissertation in the field of Cuban
agricultural history (1994). He has taught at the University of South Florida and the University of
Florida. He is a member of the Agricultural History Society, the Florida Historical Society, and The
Conference of Latin American Historians. Dr. Lauriault is also an active farmer.

Dr. Samuel Proctor, a native Floridian, holds his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University
of Florida. He is Distinguished Service Professor of History and Julien C. Yonge Professor of Florida
History at the University. Dr. Proctor is curator of History at the Florida Museum of Natural History,
director of the University of Florida's Oral History Program, and director of the Center for Florida
Studies. He is past president of the Oral History Association. He is a member of the Academic Council
of the American Jewish Historical Society and a former president of the Southern Jewish Historical
Society. Dr. Proctor is the author of five books, over eighty articles, and the editor of thirty-four books.

Dr. William Rogers, Professor of History, The Florida State University, received his Ph.D. from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored or co-authored seventeen books and
monographs and sixty-two articles, many focusing on the agricultural history of the Florida and the Deep
South. He is a member of the Southern Historical Association, the Florida Historical Society, the
Agricultural History Society, the Alabama Historical Association, and other professional associations. He
has served on the Board of Editors of the Alabama Review, Apalachee, and the Florida Historical
Quarterly. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships from various sources including
the American Philosophical Society, the American Society for State and Local History, the Alabama
Endowment for the Humanities, the Georgia Endowment for the Humanities, and is a Senior Fellow of the
National Endowment for the Arts.

University of Florida Project Budget

Universe of volumes captured in the bibliography: 3,500
Number of volumes selected for preservation: 1,841
Number of titles to be preserved: 603

Cost per volume
Identification and selection completed in phase 1
Pre- and post-filming $ 8.51
Bibliographic control and record distribution 5.49
Microfilming, 3 generations 39.63
Local inspection 1.93
Additional local costs 1.94

Total cost per volume $ 57.50

Total project cost $105,858