Digging up the soil surveys: Improving discoverability and access to historic agricultural information

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Journal of Agricultural & Food Information 22 (1) February 2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10496505.2020.1839469 on November 4 2020. This article will highlight various uses for historical soil survey publications of the United States, discuss their management in libraries, and introduce an inventory to simplify their discovery. This inventory, provided as freely available supplementary material to this article, is a searchable list of publications organized by state. It can be adapted to the needs of individual libraries.

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Work Title Digging up the soil surveys: Improving discoverability and access to historic agricultural information
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  1. Helen F. Smith
  2. Jen Kirk
  3. Anne Hedrich
  4. Sandra Weingart
Keyword
  1. soil surveys
  2. finding aids
  3. maps
  4. agricultural history
License All rights reserved
Work Type Article
DOI doi:10.26207/bwfw-0k48
Deposited November 04, 2020

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