GRANT FUNDED PROJECTS

TEEAL
Mann Library and the Rockefeller Foundation have initiated a partnership which will result in an historic and groundbreaking information product: The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library, or TEEAL. This electronic library contains the full text -- complete with all graphics and illustrations -- of 125 agricultural journals, stored on compact disk. Designed to support agricultural research in regions where there is an urgent need for increased food production, TEEAL will be made available to 108 of the lowest income food deficit countries (as listed in the World Bank's 1996 World Development Report).

Preserving the History of United States Agriculture and Rural Life: State and Local Literature, 1820-1945. Phase 2
Cornell University, in cooperation with ten other land grant university libraries, has been awarded approximately $1,000,000 by the NEH for a two-year, phase 2 project to continue a program begun in 1993 to preserve the most signficant published materials on the history of state and local agriculture. Mann Library, in addition to coordinating the whole project, will be microfilming all theses written between 1911 and 1953 in the colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Human Ecology.

Preserving the Heritage of New York/Northeast Agriculture, Natural History and Natural Resources
This one year project, funded by a N.Y. State conservation & preservation program, will reformat important, brittle materials on agriculture, rural life and the natural history and natural resources of the New York and Northeast bio-region (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England, Quebec, and Ontario). Thousands of volumes from the collections of Cornell University, the New York Public Library, and the New York State Library (NYSL) will be preserved by producing archival quality microfilm/fiche. When this work is complete, New York will become the first state in the nation to completely fulfill its responsibility to the National Preservation Program for Agricultural Sciences Literature of the U.S. Agricultural Information Network.

CUGIR
A recently awarded grant from the United States Geological Survey is enabling Mann Library to establish a world wide web-based clearinghouse for geospatial data and metadata. The Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository, or CUGIR, will provide free, global access to geospatial data and metadata covering New York State. Data from the collections of Mann Library, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Soil Information Systems Laboratory at Cornell as well as other state and local agencies, will be included in CUGIR.

Mann's Clearinghouse is part of a program set up to establish clearinghouse "nodes" that will gather and document regional datasets for the country. As this plan is realized, one will be able to search for specific spatial datasets for any region of the United States from a single web site sponsored by the Federal Geographic Data Committee as part of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure mandated by President Clinton.

The Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository is scheduled to be fully operational by Fall 1998.

RECENT GIFTS AND HOW THEY ARE BEING USED

New Mann Library Acquisitions Endowments for Fiscal Year 1997-98

• Jan Olsen Endowment for Special Collections. For acquisitions for Mann Special Collections, with particular emphasis on acquisitions of rare books and materials.

• William and Isabel Berley Fund. For general book acquisitions in all fields.

• Peter J. and Stephanie P. Nolan Fund. For general book acquisitions in all fields.

• Sarah L. Manning Fund. For acquisitions in fields related to human ecology.

• Samuel L. Leonard Fund for Mann Library. Supports the enrichment of existing efforts in the purchase of materials in reproductive physiology, zoology, animal biology and behavior.

• Howard E. Conklin Book Endowment Fund. For the purchase and/or preservation of materials in any format concerning land economics and related topics, especially agricultural land economics and rural society in New York State.

• Professor Forrest F. (Frosty) Hill Fund. For acquisitions in land economics reflecting the interests of Forrest F. Hill or in related areas of scholarship.

• Jeffers Family Fund for Agricultural Heritage. For preservation and conservation activities with the agricultural collections in Mann Library.

• Marie Lavallard Preservation Student Assistant Fund. Supports salary of one student assistant in preservation activities>.

New Mann Library General Endowments for Fiscal Year 1997-98

• James L. Craig '62 Staff Development Endowment. Supports staff training and skill development with emphasis given to support staff.

• Philip and Helen Higley Endowment. For general expenses.