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The University Libraries is marking this special month with the opening of the Arkansas Agricultural Circulars digital collection which encompasses more than 400 digitized circulars spanning from 1914-1945.
Funded by an award from the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN), and the Agricultural Information Center (AgNIC),the Arkansas Extension Circular digital collection will increase accessibility to the circulars and provide a wonderful complement to the department’s related archival collections, including the University’s Cooperative Extension Service Records (MC1145) and the numerous collections from home demonstration clubs and county extension agents. The digital project was led by Agricultural Librarian and Principal Investigator, Necia Parker-Gibson with the assistance of a library team including Head of Cataloging and Technical Services, Deb Kulczak, Digital Services Librarian, Martha Parker, and interim Head of Special Collections, Angela Fritz.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wordpressua.uark.edu/dist/4/81/files/2016/10/ArkCollS537.A753no.335_Circular335_January1935_page44_veggies.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” title_text=”African American woman in Mississippi County, Arkansas, who “canned 780 quarts of vegetables as a supply for family use.” From the Extension Service Annual Report (no. 335), page 44. Published by University of Arkansas Agricultural Extensions Service January 1935. ” alt=”African American woman in Mississippi County, Arkansas, who “canned 780 quarts of vegetables as a supply for family use.” From the Extension Service Annual Report (no. 335), page 44. Published by University of Arkansas Agricultural Extensions Service January 1935. “] [/et_pb_image][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wordpressua.uark.edu/dist/4/81/files/2016/10/S544-3_A8_H65_Hogan_p109_crop.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” title_text=”A boy working with the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service feeds the hogs he is raising for competition. From the 1940 University of Wisconsin thesis, A History of the Agricultural Extension Service in Arkansas by Mena Hogan, page 109. The original manuscript of the thesis is available in the University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections.” alt=”A boy working with the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service feeds the hogs he is raising for competition. From the 1940 University of Wisconsin thesis, A History of the Agricultural Extension Service in Arkansas by Mena Hogan, page 109. The original manuscript of the thesis is available in the University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections.”] [/et_pb_image][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wordpressua.uark.edu/dist/4/81/files/2016/10/Group-eating-watermelon-MC-1640-Box-5-folder-1-Image-57.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” title_text=”Group eating watermelon, ca. 1915. From the Mablevale Home Demonstration Club Records (MC 1640), box 5, folder 1, image 57, Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries. ” alt=”Group eating watermelon, ca. 1915. From the Mablevale Home Demonstration Club Records (MC 1640), box 5, folder 1, image 57, Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries. “] [/et_pb_image][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wordpressua.uark.edu/dist/4/81/files/2016/10/MC1207Box2Folser1p2_crop.jpg” title_text=”Johnson County Home demonstration agent speak to a woman on the porch of here farmhouse as her husband listens. From the Johnson County Homemakers Club Records (MC1207), Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries. ” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” /][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wordpressua.uark.edu/dist/4/81/files/2016/10/MC961Box2Folder257.jpg” alt=”African American Home Demonstration Agents” title_text=”Arkansas’s African American Assistant Home Demonstration Agents, ca. 1950. From the Dorris Vick Collection (MC961), Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries. ” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]
The October 13th event will include opening remarks from Dr. Jeannie Whayne, Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Cherisse Jones Branch, Professor of History and Director of the ASTATE Digital Press at Arkansas State University, will discuss her innovative research in the presentation “‘Find a Way to Maintain the Home Demonstration and 4-H Work in this County’: African American Home Demonstration Agents in Arkansas, 1914-1965.” Ms. Denna Clymer of Crowder College will present “‘They Fought to Produce’: Rural Women and Farm Labor in World War II.”
Librarian Necia Parker-Gibson will also give an overview of the digitization project, and the public will be able to explore the digital collection at work stations set up in reading room. For more information about the Agricultural Extension Service Collection and American Archives Month festivities, please contact:
Angela Fritz, Interim Head of Special Collections
University Libraries
479-575-5576, fritz@uark.edu
Molly Boyd, Assistant to the Dean of Libraries
University Libraries
479-575-2962, mdboyd@uark.edu
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