K-State creating digital archive of agriculture writing

Librarians at Kansas State University are continuing to digitize more than 70 years of Kansas agricultural history and put it online.

They’ve arranged a contract for $7,000 to digitize and preserve writings about Kansas agriculture from the Kansas 4‐H Journal, Kansas Future Farmer, and five newsletters and magazines, according to a prepared statement from the university.

They had arranged another contract last year for $3,125 to digitize issues of the Kansas Farmer from 1863 to 1954. That work will be available online by early 2015, the statement said. That magazine reports farm practices and how they’ve changed in livestock management and other parts of rural life, including cooking, the statement said.

This story was originally published August 25, 2014 at 9:01 AM with the headline "K-State creating digital archive of agriculture writing."