2. Administrative <\/a><\/p>\n 3. Content, Programming and Services <\/a><\/p>\n As a special resource and service of the ACES (Funk) Library, the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center is revealing itself as increasingly robust, recognized, and valuable. It contributes uniquely within the four-part \u201cFramework for Strategic Action\u201d of the University Library.<\/p>\n <\/a> Elizabeth Ray continued to serve as the assistant manager and webmaster on a quarter-time appointment. She oversaw the website updates, reviewed and added citations, processed collections, and headed projects for ACDC.<\/p>\n In May 2017, Caeli Cleary graduated from the Agricultural Communications Program with a focus in environmental journalism. As a student assistant in the center, during early 2017 she added numerous citations, processed new collections, and created a digital exhibit.<\/p>\n In summer 2017, Hailley Shaw joined the staff as a quarter-time graduate assistant. She is working on her Master of Library and Information Science degree here at the University of Illinois. She reviewed and added hundreds of citations to the online database, worked on the James Grunig Collection, monitored new books of possible interest, and helped process collections.<\/p>\n Prof. Pat Allen, former head of ACES (Funk) Library, continued as ACDC administrative coordinator on a part-time basis. He spearheaded the hiring of a second graduate assistant and created numerous lists of documents that have been reviewed and their citations added to BibLeaves.<\/p>\n Prof. Lulu Rodriguez, Director of the Agricultural Communications Program, contributed throughout the year in programming and strategic planning.<\/p>\n A plan to increase collaboration and communications with ACES (Funk) Library staff was continued through\u00a0Elizabeth Ray and Hailley Shaw attending the bi-weekly ACES Library staff meetings and Ray\u2019s spring semester working at the ACES Funk reference desk as a graduate assistant.<\/p>\n Volunteer associates continued to play a vital role in ongoing success of the center. They identified relevant literature from throughout the world, assisted in project development, offered counsel, and provided contacts. Volunteers during 2017 included Jim Evans, emeritus professor of agricultural communications, University of Illinois; Joyce Wright, professor emerita, University of Illinois Library; Paul Hixson, emeritus\u00a0 chief information officer, University of Illinois; and Liz Harfull, professional rural communicator in Australia.<\/p>\n <\/a> Staff members continued to assess the need and explore potentials for ACDC to increase its capability for digital archiving, especially in regard to audio-visual materials. Ray also reestablished contact with University Library Media preservation associates to help with the continued preservation of the physical AV materials in ACDC.<\/p>\n The ACDC website had a major switch over from CMS to WordPress in the beginning of the fall semester. The University library IT oversaw the transition with inputs from the ACDC and Funk ACES Library staff. All relevant information was transferred to the new website. The new website remains user friendly with added visual appeals. Users frequently comment how easy it is to navigate the site. Graduate assistant Ray continued to update the site regularly.<\/p>\n Staff members completed a project to create links on the website to connect ACDC with University Archives collections related to agricultural communications. \u00a0A new \u201cArchival Collections\u201d section of the ACDC website includes:<\/p>\n Association Archives<\/u><\/p>\n Individual Archives<\/u><\/p>\n Graduate Assistant Ray updated the ACDC Manual. She also headed a project to make the Francis Byrnes and Kerry Byrnes Collections more accessible and searchable within BibLeaves and the ACDC finding aid.<\/p>\n Graduate Assistants Shaw and Ray updated the ACDC finding aid regularly. It identifies the location of all documents within boxes in the ACDC storage area.<\/p>\n During November, staff members added to the website a resource entitled, \u201cTips for searching the ACDC collection from BibLeaves.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a> Overview of contributed materials:<\/strong> During the year, Shaw, Evans, and Ray substantially expanded the Contributed Collections section of the ACDC website. It now features the contributed collections of 42 scholars, professionals, and other individuals. They are recognized with brief biographies and individual photos, along with descriptions of their materials.<\/p>\n Processing new contributions: <\/strong><\/p>\n Processing was completed on one contributed collection during 2017: The John L. Woods Collection is a globe-spanning collection, ranging across 40 years (1965-2005). It features communications related to agricultural\/rural development and environmental quality. Books, handbooks, guides, project reports, presentations, and other materials address strategic communications planning and management, teaching and training methods, cinematography, and other topics.<\/p>\n Two new collections were contributed during late 2017 and will be processed during 2018. The NCR-90 Collection, contributed by Dr. Eric Abbott, features communications research materials, minutes, and reports between 1984 and 1995. NCR-90 was the Communications Committee of Agricultural Experiment Stations in the 12-state North Central Region (NCR). The Gene Kroupa Collection includes a doctoral dissertation and other materials from a four-decade career related to agricultural communications.<\/p>\n Staff members reviewed, sorted, and organized the substantial Francis C. Byrnes Collection. They also added research and program material that involved international activities of the UI Office of Agricultural Communications from the 1930s to the 1990s.<\/p>\n <\/a> Twelve issues of the e-newsletter were posted on the website during 2017 and announced via two distribution lists. By highlighting some of the literature being added to the collection, on a monthly basis it alerted more than 1,000 readers to agricultural communications research, methods, events, and issues throughout the world.<\/p>\n Sample topics featured in ACDC News<\/em> during the year included:<\/p>\n <\/a> <\/a> Digital Exhibit series:<\/u> student assistant Caeli Cleary continued the \u201cDigital Exhibit\u201d series on the ACDC website with this new exhibit:<\/p>\n \u201cOldest Magazine in America: Celebrating 175 years of the Prairie Farmer<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n SlideShare (the site used to upload the exhibit to share to the website) analytics show that the exhibit attracted more than 200 views with a majority in the United States and some international views.<\/p>\n During March, the American Agricultural Editors\u2019 Association featured a newsletter article written by ACDC student assistant Cleary.\u00a0 Her topic was \u201cCreating my first digital exhibit.\u201d<\/p>\n Special Searches, Requests, and Contacts:<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n ACDC personnel provided individual services in response to a broad range of questions and requests from dozens of persons throughout the world. Following are some of the topics involved in those requests during 2017:<\/p>\n A researcher from the University of California \u2013 San Francisco visited the Center during November. She has research interest in public relations and communications within the food industry. Conversation centered on relevant materials in the ACDC collection and potentials for collaboration.<\/p>\n Partnership with AgNIC<\/u><\/strong>:<\/strong><\/a> The University of Illinois continued to serve as national “Center of Excellence” in agricultural communications as a partner in the Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) of the National Agricultural Library. ACDC serves as the portal for information about agricultural communications within this worldwide online agricultural information system.<\/p>\n Other Outreach Efforts:<\/strong> \u00a0<\/strong><\/a>Professor Evans provided agricultural communications students with career development information in the field of agricultural communications, including referrals to ACDC.<\/p>\n <\/a> Scott Heiberger and James F. Evans (December 2017) New Extension approaches to serving agricultural media in advancing farm-life safety communications. 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\n<\/a>Strategic Framework<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Administrative<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Staffing and Operations<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nStaffing in the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center changed in several ways during 2017.<\/p>\nSystem Development<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nBibLeaves, the web-based bibliographic system used by ACDC and other library units at the University of Illinois, continues to be the resource locator for the ACDC collection. A public side enables searching for citations and the ability to email or text search results. A staff side is used to add new bibliographic information. Library IT continued to test and implement enhancements.<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Content, Programming, and Services<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Document Collection<\/h4>\n
\nThe ACDC Collection consisted of 44, 510 documents at the end of 2017. More than fourteen hundred documents were added to the BibLeaves database during 2017.\u00a0 This surpassed the intended average of 100 documents added per month.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2018\/03\/graph-2017-1024x464.png\")
<\/p>\nServing Users<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nACDC News<\/em><\/strong>: <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n
Social Media<\/h4>\n
\nACDC continued an active presence on social media. As of yearend, the center\u2019s Twitter account (@ACDCUIUC) had more than 140 followers with more than 320 tweets. Tweets include original tweets of articles and events within the agricultural communications profession, retweets of others in the field, photos of Volume1Number1 items, newsletter alerts, and interaction with other University of Illinois library units.<\/p>\nOther outreach activities:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nPartnership with IFAJ<\/u>. Collaboration with the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) continued during the year. This long-time relationship has changed in nature, but remains strong. Past IFAJ Discussions also included efforts to collect and feature some 50 ACDC-coordinated articles on the IFAJ website.<\/p>\n\n
Research and Other Scholarly Contributions<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nEvans and an associate at the National Farm Medicine Center in Wisconsin used ACDC resources in support of a peer-reviewed research article published during 2017:<\/p>\n
\nExtension<\/em>. 55(6): 6RIB3<\/p>\nEncouragement from Users and Reviewers<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nFollowing are samples of feedback from users during 2017. They reflect responses to individual search and advisory services, issues of ACDC News<\/em>, and various features of the ACDC website:<\/p>\n\n