Information Specialists, and three divisions of the American Library Association. He is a member of the
Reference and Adults Services Division, Co-Chair of the Publisher/Vendor Relations Committee of the
Science and Technology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, and Chair of the
Microcomputer User Interest Group of the Library and Information Technology Association. He has
given presentations at both fish culture and library meetings.

His publications include nine articles dealing with poultry science and eighteen articles dealing with fish
culture and fisheries science. He has done two editions of a book chapter extensively reviewing carp and
buffalo fish aquaculture.


Wallace C. Olsen

Wallace C. Olsen has been Core Agricultural Literature Project Director, at the Albert R. Mann Library,
Corell University from 1990 to the present, where he has worked to select important historical literature
to preserve in seven subject areas of American agriculture. The process has involved citation analysis
from appropriate source documents to gather data on the most heavily cited monographs, as well as
journals up to 1960. The monograph lists were compiled from a minimum of fifteen source documents
in each of seven subjects with a range of from 6,000 to 18,000 citations examined in each subject. The
monograph lists were then sent for evaluation to specialists in each of the subject fields. The number of
monograph reviewers averaged seven per subject. These evaluations were given a numerical weight and
combined with the numbers of times the titles were cited in the source documents. The journal hits
during citation analysis served to rank each title, and these rankings were used as the basis for the most
valuable or less valuable titles for preservation. An Advisory Board of faculty contacts at Comell served
as reviewers on the processes and the results. These results are published as chapters in four books
covering animal science, agricultural engineering, soil science, and food science and human nutrition.
Three other areas encompassing agricultural economics, crop science, and forestry and agroforestry have
also been evaluated. Extensive lists for preservation will be published soon.

Prior to work at Cornell, Mr. Olsen was with the National Agricultural Library of the USDA in Beltsville,
Md. Over almost twenty years he held the various positions including liaison officer to the land grant
and USDA field libraries, deputy director for public services, deputy director for technical services and
officer for special projects. He was responsible for efforts to create an agricultural libraries network
involving the land grant libraries and the libraries of the USDA. This included those forestry schools
receiving McEntire-Stennis (forestry) research assistance. An important project in this cooperative effort,
was the filming of the land grant agricultural and forestry publications for preservation. This resulted in
microfilming with 1.4 million frames. He organized the agreements and "sold" the project to land grant
librarians, obtained the funds at NAL, set the technical standards with Peter Scott of MIT, and managed
the program, including funds, organization, and quality control.

Mr. Olsen's experience with agricultural literature has been continuous for twenty-five years, including
work on all aspects of administration, technical operations including indexing, public services,
international and national cooperation and consulting. He has a profound knowledge of the nature and
importance of agricultural literature as well as of the major organizations involved in library and
information agricultural work of the past twenty-five years.


Ann Swartzell

Ann Swartzell has been the Head of the Preservation Replacement and Library Photographic Service units
of the University of California, Berkeley, Library Conservation Department since November, 1989;
responsibilities here include managing all phases of the review and replacement process for poor