SCOPE OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY


 N.Y.S. Coordinated Preservation Project
 Preserving the Published Heritage of New York State Agriculture,
 Rural Economy and Society: 1820-1945

 One aim of the NYSCPG project is to compile a comprehensive bibliography of pre-
 1946 published works potentially useful for studying the history of New York State
 agriculture, rural economy and society. These general categories take us into a broad
 range of literature, which overlap among disciplines. To ensure that the scope of the
 bibliography is clearly understood by those compiling and evaluating it, subject
 parameters and criteria have been established.
 The following subject and form parameters are an attempt to define a meaningful and
 manageable scope of literature for preservation purposes. Within these parameters, a
 large net is cast in the hope of determining the size and scope of pertinent literature, and
 of the preservation problem. The scope of the bibliography has been adjusted several
 times in the course of compilation; reviewers are encouraged to bring to our attention
 the inevitable outliers and inconsistencies.

 Criteria for inclusion in the bibliography:
 1. Falls within the subject parameters of the project (see below).
 2. Substantial portion of a title is concerned specifically with New York State (e.g. in
 compilations, regional, national or comparative works). Excepted are works which
 provide valuable insight into NY agriculture in relation to other locations.
 3. Monographs, serials, and pamphlets (of > 24 pages) published before 1946.
 4. Publications about Cornell University and its role as a land grant university.
 5. Publications about the NYS College of Forestry and Environmental Science.
 6. Relevant Cornell and other university M.S. and PhD theses.
 7. N. Y. S. documents, in particular the Departments of Agriculture and Markets and the
 Dept. of Environmental Conservation (and their antecedents).
 exclusions:
 Many categories of materials have been excluded. Exclusions have been made on the
basis of format, date, provenance, and likelihood of coverage in other preservation
projects. While these exclusions may limit the utility of the bibliography qua
bibliography for scholars of New York agricultural history, they are designed to focus
preservation efforts on a specific body of literature. The emphasis has been on
published materials of special significance to the study of N.Y.S. agriculture, excluding
many items touching on agriculture and rural life but which are also likely to receive
preservation attention on account of their value to N.Y. history in general.