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UC Cooperative Extension Archive: Past, Present, and Future Author: Lisa Vallen August 2, 2018 Things are heating up at the UC Cooperative Extension Archive! July marks the start of our $308,900 three year grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for “A Century of Impact: Documenting the Work of the Cooperative Extension in California's Counties.” Over the next three years, we will appraise, process, and digitize historical material from 20 county offices, with the goals of:
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World Ag Expo a Showcase for New Library Digitization Project February 27, 2018 UC Merced made its first appearance at the annual World Ag Expo in Tulare earlier this month to spread the word about the library’s new digitization project to collect and preserve 100 years of data, documents and photos from the UC’s Cooperative Extension. The new project will collect 100 years’ worth of reports and historic photographs from 20 California counties — in the Central Valley, along the coast, up north at the edges of the Sierra and along the southern border — and will geocode all the records. Emily Lin, UC Merced Library’s head of Digital Curation and Scholarship, along with colleagues from the Library, Admissions, CITRIS and Development, and students from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), staffed UC Merced’s booth in the education-and careers pavilion, where they were in good company with other colleges and universities such as UC Davis, Fresno State and campuses from Utah, Oregon and Arizona. ... |
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Preserving the Past: Library Digitizing a Century of Ag Records January 29, 2018 An ongoing effort to collect, digitally preserve and share 100 years of historical records by the UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) has earned the UC Merced Library a more than $300,000 grant. “We’re extremely proud to be able to further the work already begun on the UCCE project,” UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland said. “Our library is producing a collection that demonstrates the organization’s lasting effects on the state, the work it has done in the past and its potential for the future.” The work is especially relevant to the San Joaquin Valley, said Emily Lin, the UC Merced Library’s head of Digital Curation and Scholarship. “We have a lot of archives and historic records based around urban centers, but we haven’t been collecting the records of rural California in any systematic way,” she said. “But rural California has had an incredible influence on the state’s history. California was transformed by agriculture over the past century.” The Archivist... |
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Connecting Merced Agriculture to Yosemite National Park Author: Lisa Vallen October 30, 2017 In 1926 Highway 140 construction was complete and it connected Merced to Yosemite National Park. During that time Merced’s farming community was facing some serious challenges. Merced County Agent John L. Quail writes in the narrative report for 1926-1927:
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“Flood!” and Other Interesting Finds from Humboldt Cooperative Extension Office Author: Lisa Vallen September 25, 2017 I visited the Humboldt Cooperative Extension County Office in June and will preview a few items of interest I found. Thanks to the staff at Humboldt for all of their help in identifying where the historical material was located and providing some context for the material. |
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An Agricultural Centennial: Farm Bureau & Ag Extension Author: Lisa Vallen August 17, 2017 August 21, 2017 On March 7, 1917 417 farmers in Merced county voted to start Farm Bureau and UC Cooperative Extension and by the end of 1918 they had 550 members in the County Farm Bureau and 42 members in the boys and girls clubs. Unfortunately, the 1917 Narrative Report has been lost, but the 1918 Narrative Report, written by County Agent J.F. Grass Jr., states:
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Agriculture in California Author: Lisa Vallen February 28, 2017 Last month, UC Cooperative Extension Archivist, Lisa Vallen, covered the purpose and importance of the UC Cooperative Extension Archives. In this new post, she gives you an overview of agriculture in California and then focuses in on the three counties she is working with: Merced, Ventura, and Humboldt. |
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Preserving 100 Years of Agricultural Resources: Creating the UC Cooperative Extension Archive Author: Lisa Vallen January 26, 2017 Welcome to the UC Cooperative Extension Archive blog. My name is Lisa Vallen, I am the UC Cooperative Extension Project Archivist. I realize that not everyone is familiar with Cooperative Extension, so for this first post I’m going fill everyone in on the who, what, when, where and why of this special project! |
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