5. Preservation Profiles


regularly presents lectures and demonstrations for academic courses on campus and provides other
preservation education presentations for organizations on and off-campus.

The Iowa State University Library's Preservation Department consistently contributes to state level
planning and collaboration on preservation With a well-trained staff and a track record on preservation
projects, it is well-situated to conduct a project to preserve literature on agriculture and rural life in Iowa.

Iowa State University Project Staff

Iowa's project will be co-managed by Ed Goedeken, Principal Bibliographer for the Humanities and Ivan
Hanthorn, Head of the Preservation Department. Ellie Mathews, will serve as an expert consultant in for
the bibliographic investigation. She was formerly Head of Reference at the Iowa State University Library,
and as a senior agriculture reference librarian, is well-versed in the extensive literature that supports
agriculture both in Iowa and in the United States.

The project team will also include of Tyler Walters, Acting Head of the Special Collections Department.
In addition to his experience in managing the department's collections, Walters has written and managed
two state-level preservation/access grants and has served as an NEH panelist and grant reviewer.

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

Iowa Scholarly Review Panel

Gordon E. Bivens is Mary B. Welch Distinguished Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences and
Professor Emeritus, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University.
During his career, he served on the faculties in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Pennsylvania
State University; Departments of Economics and Home Management, Iowa State University; Department
of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Departments of Family Economics and Management
and Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia. In addition, he served on special
appointments with the Consumer and Family Economics Division, USDA, Washington, D.C. (1967-68
and 1988) and as Visiting Scholar, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
(1974-75). He served as founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Affairs, founding chair, Board of
Directors, Center for the Family, American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Washington,
D.C., and as member of the board of directors of Consumers Union, Inc. (publishers of Consumer
Reports), Mt. Vernon, N.Y. His administrative experience includes chair, Extension Department of
Economics, University of Wisconsin; Founding Director, Center for Consumer Affairs, University of
Wisconsin; Director of Graduate Programs, College of Home Economics, University of Missouri,
Columbia; chair, Department of Family Environment; and Interim Associate Dean for Research, College
of Family and Consumer Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames.

R. Douglas Hurt holds a Ph.D. in American History from Kansas State University (1975). His area of
expertise is American agricultural history. He serves as professor and director of the Graduate Program
in Agricultural History and Rural Studies at Iowa State University, Ames, IA., and is editor of Agricultural
History, the journal of record for the field. He has served as curator of agriculture at the Ohio Historical
Society and associate director for the State Historical Society of Missouri. His publications include:
American Farms: Exploring Their History (1996); American Agriculture: a Brief History (1994);
Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie (1992); Indian Agriculture in America (1987); and The
Dust Bowl: An Agricultural and Social History (1981).

John Pesek is a Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture and Emeritus Professor of
Agronomy at Iowa State University. His B.S. and M.S. degrees are from Texas A & M University and