In 2012, CRL formed a partnership with the United States Agriculture Information Network (USAIN) and the Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC) to support the ongoing preservation and digitization of collections in the field of agriculture. Project Ceres has two primary goals:
- Sustain consensus-based, cooperative archiving of primary serial collections in the field of agriculture, defined broadly;
- Expand electronic access to digital and print resources from all world regions to support agricultural research.
Each year CRL provides funding for projects chosen by a CERES subcommittee formed by the USAIN preservation committee. Following the scope and goals of the program, the CERES subcommittee has established the process and procedures for submitting proposals and determining which are funded.
Scope
Initially, Project Ceres will focus primarily on digitization and archiving of three types of materials:
- The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture: The extensive body of serials and government publications on agriculture, rural life and home economics published between 1820 and 1975 that have been digitized and/or microfilmed under the USAIN program.
- Other agricultural and related trade and industrial journals published in the U.S. and Canada
- Serial publications published by the U.S. agricultural extension services and experimental stations.
Eventually the program will expand to support preservation of, and electronic access to, a broader array of international agricultural resources.
Planning and Governance
A USAIN steering committee guides and sets priorities for Project Ceres. The committee establishes priorities and requirements for enhanced and expanded archiving and digitization of legacy agricultural collections. The committee considers how the conditions and terms of service of existing collections and archives might be improved, and how the holdings and/or number of those archives might be significantly expanded. For more information and a link to this year's proposal information, see USAIN's Project CERES page.
Project CERES funding can support direct costs for projects (including digitization costs, personnel salary and benefits, and other reasonable direct costs). However, the project's policies do not allow for the inclusion of indirect/overhead costs. CRL and its constituent programs provide support for projects on a cost-reimbursable basis, and should not be construed as “grants.”
The Collection
A list of complete Project CERES Titles is available through CRL's online catalog.
Projects
2019-2020
| School | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Colorado State University | Preservation of Colorado Agriculture Literature, Colorado County Agent Annual Reports, Third Phase |
| Cornell University | The Rural New Yorker Phase II |
| Michigan State University | Michigan Tradesman |
| Montana State University | Montana Agricultural Related Microfilm Digitization Project |
| South Dakota State University | Digitization of South Dakota State University’s Agricultural Publications: Cooperative Extension |
| University of Maryland | Preserving the History of Maryland Agriculture and Rural Life: Microfilm to Digital |
| University of Arkansas | Digitization of Annual Report / Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station |
| University of Nebraska | Preserving Nebraska's Agricultural History II: Circulars of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station |
2018-2019
| School | Project Title |
|---|---|
| University of Arkansas | Complete Miscellaneous Publications and begin Mimeograph Series (Supplementary 2018) |
| Colorado State University Libraries | Preservation of Colorado Agriculture Literature, Trade and Commercial Publications |
| Colorado State University Libraries | Western Livestock Journal and Sugar Press (Supplementary 2018) |
| Cornell University | The Rural New Yorker (Supplementary 2018) |
| University of Tennessee | Agricultural Serials Digitization Project |
2017-2018
| School | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Colorado State University | Preservation of Colorado Agriculture Literature, Colorado County Agent |
| Cornell University | The Rural New Yorker |
| California State University – Fresno | V.E. Petrucci Library Grape and Wine Research Gray Literature |
| Mississippi State University | Digitize Agricultural Economics Publications |
| North Carolina State University | Digitization of North Carolina Cooperative Extension Series Publications |
| University of Arkansas | Digitization of Arkansas Extension MP (Miscellaneous Publications) |
| University of Florida |
Preserving Florida’s Agricultural History: Digitization of The Florida Cattleman & Livestock Journal [CRL Digital Resource] [UF Digital Resource] [Final Report] |
2016-2017
| School | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Colorado State University | Preservation of Colorado Agriculture Literature, Colorado County Agent Annual Reports |
| Michigan State University | Michigan Farming Journals Digitization and Conservation Project |
| Regents of New Mexico State University | Digitization of Cotton, Dairy, Plant Diseases, and other Serials from the NMSU Agricultural Extension Service and the Agricultural Experiment Station |
| South Dakota State University | Digitization of South Dakota State University's Agricultural Publications |
| University of Arkansas | Digitization of Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin |
2015-2016
| School | Project Title |
|---|---|
| University of Arkansas | Digitization of Arkansas Extension Circulars |
| University of Florida | Increasing Accessibility to Rare Florida Agricultural Publications – Phase II |
| Iowa State University | Iowa State University Experiment Station Publications (1903-1988) Digitization Project |
| Kansas State University Libraries | Digitization of Selected Years of a Kansas Agricultural Newspaper, the Grass & Grain |
| University of Minnesota | Extending Our Reach:Enhancing and Enabling Knowledge Transfer Through University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station Documents |
| University of Missouri Columbia, Ellis Library | 4-H Circulars |
| Regents of New Mexico State University | Selected Poultry, Fruits and Vegetables, Cotton, and Livestock Serial Publications of the NMSU Agricultural Extension Service and the Agricultural Experiment Station. |
2014-2015
| School | Project Title |
|---|---|
| University of Florida & University of the Virgin Islands | Collaboration of digitization for preservation [Final Report] |
| Kansas State University Libraries | Digitization of Kansas youth-in-agriculture, agricultural education, and rural life publications |
| Louisiana State University | Louisiana Digital BibliAgraphy: 100 Years of LSU Research Experiment Station Publications, 1888-1989 |
| New Mexico State University | Digitizing New Mexico State University Agricultural Extension Service’s Special Reports, Extension Leaflets, and Selected Serials |
| University of Minnesota | Extending Our Reach: Enhancing and Enabling Knowledge Transfer Through University of Minnesota Extension Publications |
| Purdue University | Digitization of Purdue University Agricultural Documents (1923-1988) |
| Washington State University | Digitizing WSU Extension Bulletins, Circulars, and Pamphlets |
| West Virginia University | West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station Circulars, 1903-69 |
| University of Wyoming | University of Wyoming Ag Experiment Station Bulletin Digitization |
2013-2014
| School | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Auburn University | Digitization of the 1820–1945 History of Alabama Agriculture and Rural Life |
| Dalhousie University | Maritime Students Agriculturalist Digitization and Preservation Project [CRL Digital Resource] [Dalhousie Digital Resource] |
| Colorado State University | Preservation of Colorado Agriculture Literature, Supplemental Colorado Experiment Station Publications |
| University of Idaho | Idaho’s Agricultural History Online: Digitizing The Idaho Forester and Extension’s Current Information Series |
| Kansas State University | Digitization of the Kansas Farmer, 1863-1954 [KSU Digital Resource] |
| Michigan State University | Grange Visitor 1875–1896 Digitization Project [CRL Digital Resource] [MSU Digital Resource] [MSU Dataset] |
| University of Minnesota | Preserving Knowledge Transfer: Digitizing Minnesota’s Historical Agricultural Serials and Series |
| Mississippi State University | Digitization of Archival Mississippi State University Experiment Station Bulletins |
| Missouri State University | History of Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station in Documents |
| University of Nebraska at Lincoln | Preserving Nebraska’s Agricultural History: The Research Bulletins of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station |
| New Mexico State University | Digitization of Historical Agricultural Records (NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station publications) |
| North Dakota State University | Digitizing North Dakota Farm Research for the NDSU Institutional Repository |
| The Ohio State University | Reformatting of Ohio State University’s Mimeograph Bulletin Series and Economics and Sociology Occasional Working Paper Series |
| Purdue University | Digitization of Purdue Agricultural Publications (1910–1922) |
| Washington State University | Digitizing Washington State University Extension Bulletins 1913– |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Beekeeping Serials from the Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Collection. |
