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50 Years in Beltsville: A Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to Celebrate the National Agricultural Library

This edit-a-thon was livestreamed and recorded. You can view the recording on YouTube.

Join us at the National Agricultural Library to help celebrate our 50th anniversary in Beltsville and help improve or create Wikipedia articles about the Library's history and ARS/USDA history.

The National Agricultural Library (NAL), one of the world's largest agricultural research libraries, was established as part of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1862 by Abraham Lincoln. The library was originally located at the headquarters building of the USDA until the library was centralized and its vast collections outgrew the Washington, D.C., space. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized an appropriation which enabled the Library to build a 14-story building at the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) in Beltsville, MD.

The National Agricultural Library invites Wikipedians of all levels of experience to participate in this edit-a-thon. Topics will include past librarians, USDA research discoveries and developments, the evolution of technology in conjunction with libraries, and highlights of notable research and research contributions represented within the library's special collections and stacks holdings.

During the event, people will be able to hear from and meet influential historians within the USDA, librarians, and data science experts. They will also have the opportunity to learn more about resources available through ARS and the National Agricultural Library.

This event is free and open to the public - please bring a government issued ID

Registration is required.

Please visit our Eventbrite page for a link to join remotely via YouTube Live

When

Friday, September 20 2019 Time: 10:00am - 3:30pm

Where

Main Reading Room

National Agricultural Library

10301 Baltimore Ave,

Beltsville, MD 20705

Event Access:

- Please connect with us if you need a sign language interpreter or other accommodation for the event.

- This venue is wheel chair accessible.

- Laptops are required - please bring your own. Training on editing Wikipedia will be provided.

- Free parking on site.

Register

Register here with Eventbrite

Schedule:

10:00-10:30 a.m.- Doors open

10:30-11:00 a.m.- Welcome: Paul Wester, NAL Director. Introduction & Overview with Jamie Flood (NAL) and Timothy Schoepke (NAL)

11:00-noon - “USDA, Agriculture & The Nation: Events, Policies & Politics in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s”

Panelists: Anne Effland (USDA), Shelby Callaway (USDA), Timothy Schoepke (NAL)

Moderator: Jamie Flood (NAL)

Noon-12:45 p.m.- Editing training

12:45-3:00 p.m.- Lunch followed by editing Wikipedia entries

3:00-3:30 p.m.- Tour of Abraham Lincoln Building & viewing of treasures from NAL Special Collections

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Presentation

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50 Years in Beltsville: A Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to Celebrate the National Agricultural Library

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Suggested Work List

Past Librarians and Directors

Aaron B. Grosh, first department librarian 1867-1869 (WD)
(James) Stuart Eldridge, department librarian 1869-1871 (WD) Stuart Eldridge (click here to start a draft article)
John B. Russell, department librarian 1871-1977 (WD) John B. Russell (click here to start a draft article)
Ernestine H. Stevens, first female department librarian 1877-1893 (WD) Ernestine H. Stevens
William P. Cutter, first department librarian with Librarian training/education, 1893-1901 (WD) William Parker Cutter (click here to start a draft article)
Josephine Adelaide Clark, botanist and head librarian USDA 1901-07 (WD)
Claribel Ruth Barnett, Head Librarian 1907-1940 (WD) Claribel Ruth Barnett
Ralph R. Shaw, Library Director 1940-1954; inventor of the photoclerk (WD)
Foster E. Mohrhardt, Library Director 1954-1968 (WD)
John Sherrod, Library Director 1968-1973 (WD) John Sherrod

Secretaries of Agriculture

Isaac Newton (agriculturalist) First Commissioner of Agriculture 1862-1867 (WD)
Horace Capron 1867-1871 (WD) [[2]]
James Wilson (Secretary of Agriculture) "Tama Jim" - longest serving Cabinet member 1897-1913 (WD)
Henry Cantwell Wallace 1921-1924 (WD) [[3]]
Henry A. Wallace 1933-1940 (WD) [[4]]
Charles F. Brannan 1948-1953 (WD)
Orville L. Freeman 1961-1969 (WD)
Clifford M. Hardin 1969-1971 (WD)
Robert Bergland 1977-1981 (WD)
John R. Block 1981-1986 (WD)

Scientists and Researchers

Blanche Oliveri- librarian, NAL
Eunice Rockwood Oberly- librarian, Bureau of Plant Industry(WD)
Frederick Vernon Coville- Chief Botanist & first Director of the National Arboretum(WD)
Hugh Hammond Bennett- Director of Soil Erosion Service(WD)
Franklin B. Hough- First Chief of Division of Forestry(WD)
Harry A. Borthwick- Botanist(WD) Harry Borthwick (click here to start a draft article)
Eloise Blaine Cram- Head Scientist investigating Parasites of Poultry & Game Birds(WD) [[5]]
Brayton H. Ransom- Chief of the Zoological Division(WD) (Included in Eloise Cram's papers)
Charles Wardell Stiles- identified Necator americanus(WD) (Included in Eloise Cram's papers)
Daniel Elmer Salmon- Established Veterinary division within USDA - Salmonella was named in his honor(WD) (Included in Eloise Cram's papers)
George McMillan Darrow- Pomologist in charge of research on deciduous fruit production and Strawberry expert(WD) [[6]]
Palemon Howard Dorsett- USDA Horticulturalist and agricultural explorer(WD) [[7]]
Beverly Thomas Galloway- First head of the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology(WD) [[8]]
Clara H. Hasse- Botanist who identified the cause of Citrus Canker(WD)
Henry Granger Knight- Head of Bureau of Chemistry and Soils(WD)
Adolf Ludwig Cluss- Architect of the USDA building (WD)
Deborah Griscom Passmore- USDA Botanical Illustrator (WD) [[9]]
Charles Valentine Riley- Entomologist and Artist - one of the first individuals to use biological pest control(WD) [[10]]
William Woolford Skinner- Chemist and Conservationist
William Jasper Spillman- Botanist and considered the father or Agricultural Economics (WD)
Charles Thom- Dairy mycologist in Extension Service - pioneered the use of culture media and helped develop penicillin (WD)
Alfred Charles True- Director of Office of Experiment Stations (WD)
Edward F. Knipling- Entomologist whom helped eradicate Screwworm (WD) [[11]]
Wilbur Olin Atwater- Chemist/early nutritionist and inventor of the respiration calorimeter (WD) [[12]]
Frank Nicholas Meyer- Botanical explorer (WD) [[13]]
Cornelius Lott Shear- Mycologist and Plant Pathologist who first described Bromus arizonicus. (WD)
Howard Scott Gentry- Botanist, explorer, and authority on agaves (WD) [[14]]
Joseph Francis Charles Rock- Botanist and explorer (WD)
Sterling B. Hendricks- Agriculturalist and notable Soil Scientist (WD)
Calvin Beale- Demographer who developed the Beale code for categorizing rural development (WD)
James Bolton- English Naturalist and botanical illustrator (WD)
William Coxe Jr.- Pomologist and first American to write a book on Pomology (WD)
Edwin Dun- Rancher and agricultural adviser to Japan (WD) [[15]]
Charles Christian Plitt- Botanist and lichenologist (WD) [[16]]
J. Horace McFarland- Horticulturalist and rose expert (WD) [[17]]
Henry Elijah Alvord- Educator, lobbyist, and proponent of agricultural experiment stations (WD)
Jared Eliot- Minister, physician, and agronimist (WD)
Jethro Wood- Agriculturalist and inventor of the cast-iron moldboard plow (WD)
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov- Russian agronomist, botanist, and geneticist whom identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants (WD)
Boris Petrovich Uvarov- Russian-British entomologist, father of acridology (WD)
William Speechly- English horticulturalist and head gardener to William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (WD)
Rolla Kent Beattie- Botanist and plant pathologist (WD)
Albert Davis Taylor- Landscape architect who helped design the grounds of the Pentagon (WD)
Romeyn Beck Hough- Physician and botanist (son of Franklin B. Hough creator of The American Woods, a 14-volume collection of wood samples from across North America(WD)
Gifford Pinchot- First chief of the United States Forest Service and Pennsylvania governor (WD)
Erwin Frink Smith- Plant pathologist with the USDA and helped identify that bacterian could cause plant disease (WD) [[18]]
Harvey Washington Wiley- Chemist whom helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act - first commission of the US Food and Drug Administration (WD) [[19]]
William Henry Prestele- Botanical artist and lithographer (WD) [[20]]
Charles Drechsler- Mycologist; the genus Drechslera was named after him (WD)
Royal Charles Steadman- Botanical illustrator and modeler (WD)
James A. Duke- Botanist whom developed Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases (WD) [[21]]
Miles Joseph Berkeley- Cryptogamist and clergyman whom helped found the science of plant pathology (WD)
Laurence Howland MacDaniels- Botanist and horticulturalist (WD)
Alfonso L. Herrera- biologist and author whom helped found several institutions in Mexico City (WD)
Mary Engle Pennington- Bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer (WD)
Dr.Hazel Katherine Stiebeling- Nutritionist whom pioneered the development of USDA daily dietary allowances of vitamins and minerals (WD) [[22]]