Meeting Rangeland Information Needs Through a Web-Based Reference Service: The Arizona AgNIC Experience

Pfander, Jeanne

doi:10.1300/j108v04n02_03

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“…Several AgNIC partner institutions documented their experience with the online reference service (Lektziana & Pereza, 2006;Moberly & Gardner, 2000;Pfander, 2002). These studies show that the websites and services that AgNIC partners created changed over time to take into account changes in technology and vision, but that there was a healthy variety in approach and scope from the start that allowed each partner to play to its own strengths while providing high-quality service.…”

Section: The Online Reference Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, the precedent of libraries working with other groups beyond extension staff at their universities was set very early in AgNIC's existence. For example, librarians at the University of Arizona, working on the topic of rangelands management, also collaborated with the university's Arid Lands Information Center and the School of Renewable Natural Resources' Rangeland Resources program (Pfander, 2002).…”

Section: The Online Reference Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC): Building on the Past, Looking to the Future

Olsen¹,

Kelly²,

Kopriva³

2017

Library Trends

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The Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC) began in 1995 as the Agriculture Network Information Center, a group of four academic libraries and the National Agricultural Library (NAL), with the goal of improving access to reliable agricultural information. One aspect of involvement during the early years was to develop unique subject sites that contained or linked to reliable, curated information on a particular agricultural topic. As the world of online information grew, the focus of AgNIC shifted. In 2013 AgNIC changed the "C" from Center to Collaborative, highlighting a substantive change for the group that had grown to fifty-three members. It moved the partner-members' vision of AgNIC from a series of subject silos, each staffed by librarians who built and maintained them, into a group with a much wider range of goals and interests. This reimagined collaborative explores and acts on agriculture information trends of mutual interest and international importance, including discovery, access, and preservation. Current activities include digitizing and preserving historical agricultural literature as part of Project Ceres, promoting NAL's PubAg portal, and enhancing HathiTrust by systematically requesting the release of state agricultural documents. Moving forward, this long-term partnership provides an avenue for collaboration between the libraries and NAL and opportunities for professional development.

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Section: The Online Reference Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Online Reference Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

The Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC): Building on the Past, Looking to the Future

Olsen¹,

Kelly²,

Kopriva³

2017

Library Trends

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“…In October 1995, UA Libraries became a founding member of Ag-NIC, the Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC, 2016;Pfander, 2002). Based on the centers of excellence model, member institutions were to identify a topic relevant to their state and for which their institution had a high level of expertise and excellence.…”

Section: Case Report 3: Librarians and Extension Rangeland Specialistmentioning

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Librarians at Land-Grant Universities Working with Extension: Three Case Reports

Haugen

Mastel

Pfander³

2017

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Librarians and Cooperative Extension Service (CES) professionals in the United States have common missions to make authoritative information available to their constituencies. Both professions have long traditions of service and success in the dissemination of information. This paper explores how librarians can partner with CES and contribute unique skills and expertise. After a summary of the history of CES and the historical connection among land grants, extensions, and agriculture, three case reports are presented that outline how three librarians at land-grant universities have worked with CES.

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“…For more than a decade an interdisciplinary team at the University of Arizona (UA), made up of rangeland scientists, extension specialists, librarians and/or information specialists, and IT experts, has been developing a Web portal of rangeland management resources. [1][2][3] At fi rst largely focused on Arizona and the southwestern United States, the UA team expanded the initiative in 2001 to include partners from 18 other western land-grant universities. 4,5 This led to the formation of the Western Rangelands Partnership (WRP) and the development of the Rangelands West portal and its 19 state-specifi c affi liated sites i (Fig.…”

Section: Rangelands West/global Rangelandsmentioning

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Rangelands West/Global Rangelands, eXtension Rangelands, and the Range Science Information System: A Suite of New Web Resources

Hutchinson¹,

Pfander²,

Tanaka³

2011

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Meeting Rangeland Information Needs Through a Web-Based Reference Service: The Arizona AgNIC Experience

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The Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC): Building on the Past, Looking to the Future

The Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC): Building on the Past, Looking to the Future

Librarians at Land-Grant Universities Working with Extension: Three Case Reports

Rangelands West/Global Rangelands, eXtension Rangelands, and the Range Science Information System: A Suite of New Web Resources

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