Preserving the Literature of the History of New
Mexico Agriculture and Rural Life
As part of the U.S. Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) Preservation project, New
Mexico joins twelve other states in identifying and preserving its agriculture and
rural life literature from the period 1820-1945. This project was funded by a grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and will eventually encompass similar
literature from all 50 states. This cooperative effort will preserve agrarian literature
for future generations of scholars and farmers.
Approximately 675 books and serials were identified from searches of more than 100 library
catalogs and bibliographies. About 500 of these items were chosen for microfilming. The
fourteen subject sections below contain about 25-75 entries each. The bibliographic entries
are brief but they note whether the work is to be filmed, the library holding the work, and
specific keywords.
Tim McKimmie, NMSU Agriculture Librarian is the project leader. The microfilming phase of
the project is scheduled to be completed by July 2002.
Page maintained by Tim McKimmie, NMSU Agriculture Librarian
Phone: (505) 646-7483
E-mail: tmckimmi@lib.nmsu.edu