Family, Youth and Community Sciences (FYCS) is an agricultural science department traditionally served by a science librarian. The unique set of information requirements that have grown with the scope of the department makes it a challenge to meet the diverse needs. No longer primarily covering the rural household, the department now encompasses theoretical, methodological, empirical, and practical issues associated with urban life, social trends, and complicated life-long financial planning. The information needs of this department far exceed the standard knowledge base of the traditional science librarian and require a strong foundation in social science, business, education, and health sciences information sources. This creates a restriction in information access for the many and varied members of FYCS departments. In order to relieve the restriction, science librarians must familiarize themselves with a variety of resources from statistical databases, government and international sources, and social science databases. This article covers the changes in the FYCS department, the expansion of information needs, the resources of vital importance to research and students, and the challenges to the science librarian in meeting their needs. The article concludes that the science librarian should understand the growing interdisciplinary nature of this science field and recognize the steps that must be taken to increase access to information.

Publishing Activities The survey presented seven categories of publishing activities-project development, editorial, design, image and permissions clearance, material production, printing and binding management, and distribution and marketing-and asked whether the library, the institutional press, or the library press provides any of them. Project Development This category includes project planning and management, peer review, developmental editing, editorial/ advisory board activities, and grant preparation. Thirty-eight of the 52 respondents to this question have an institutional press. Nine of these have both an institutional and a library press. Overall, these presses are highly engaged in all project development activities, particularly peer review, though only half of the institutional presses and one library press do grant preparation. The majority of libraries at these institutions also provide project planning services and a significant number do grants and serve on editorial boards. Six respondents have no press, but most of those libraries manage projects and serve on advisory boards. Editorial Editorial activities include ISBN/ISSN assignment, indexing, typesetting, copyediting, proofreading, and copyright registration. As with project development, both institutional and library presses, unsurprisingly, are highly engaged in all these activities. Only about half of the libraries are active in editorial work. They are most likely to assist with ISBN/ISSN assignment and indexing.

A partnership forged between the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida and the Florida State Horticultural Society (FSHS) advances access to current and historical publications of the society and exemplifies an opportunity for agricultural librarians. The Public Knowledge Project's Open Journal System (OJS) was developed by librarians at Simon Fraser and Stanford universities to offer free, web-based publication software that promotes open access to journals and supports editorial workflow and publication needs. Collaborations among libraries and content creators that utilize open source tools like OJS are especially beneficial for agricultural organizations with limited financial and staffing resources. This paper examines the current state of library publishing partnerships with external organizations through analysis of survey data collected by the authors, and shares lessons learned from an example partnership. In this example librarians contributed their expertise in peer-review publishing, intellectual property rights, and institutional repositories to develop a customized online journal site using OJS for FSHS in a manner that reflects the publication workflow of the society. Customized features include branding, peer review, member subscription, full-text indexing, and access to archived issues. Trainings on OJS and digital publication service empower subject-area librarians to serve as points of contact for additional collaborations. Utilizing OJS in partnerships between libraries and content creators enhances the relevancy of the library and subject-area librarians while promoting greater access to agricultural information.

The UF Digital Collections are home to over 15 million pages of historic and current content which are routinely visited by millions of visitors every month. This article explores the growth and development of the program from it's beginnings in borrowed space to it's current location with a full department to support it.

Academic libraries and teaching departments sometimes treat Digital Humanities (DH) as radically new. While DH is radically new in terms of collaborative practices and methods, it is also fundamentally rooted in the humanities and intricately connected to core activities by librarians, especially for collaboration. In this chapter, we explain how the UF Smathers Libraries leveraged the library digital collections—with rich technical features and content, and a robust underlying infrastructure—to create the necessary scholarly cyberinfrastructure to then support the DH community for an environment of radical collaboration. To do so, we show how librarians leveraged the new DH opportunities to fundamentally enrich and improve existing, seemingly more traditional work, including collection development, library scholarly councils, collaboration among libraries for print and digital collections, outreach and instruction, and more.