Browsing by Author "Haugen, Inga"

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    17 Interviews with Virginia Tech CALS Faculty: State of Research and How Information Professionals Can Help
    Haugen, Inga (2016-12-07)
    In the early months of 2016, Ithaka S+R, a not-for-profit service that helps the academic community navigate economic and technological change, asked various land grant universities to be a part of a national project examining the current state of research and how information professionals can support agricultural researchers. Eighteen institutions and the National Agriculture Library (NAL) chose to participate; Virginia Tech (VT) is one of the participating entities. There were two main aspects of participation, the interview stage and then reporting. Each of the institutions were tasked with identifying appropriate faculty to interview, and then conducting the interviews, transcribing and anonymizing the transcripts, and only then sharing information with Ithaka S+R. The national report was created by Ithaka S+R staff Danielle Cooper and Roger Schonfeld from 5 anonymized transcripts made available from the interviewing process at every participating campus, resulting in n=95 interviews for the national report . This report herein is created from only the local responses at Virginia Tech (n=17 faculty). The project we report here was designed with this combined nature, therefor some of the variables of the study design accommodate the scope of the national report better. However, analyzing the 17 results from Virginia Tech reveals a vision of what researchers at Virginia are doing as they seek information.
  • Addressing Malnutrition and Food Insecurity with Breadfruit in a Rural, Developing Country: A Case Study and Lessons Learned in Thomassique, Haiti
    Klyver, John; Haugen, Inga; Schulz, Logan; LaPais, Wiscard-Kardin; Saint-Fleur, Charles; Starke, S. J.; Piersaint, Jason; Rizzo, Anael; Sarazen, Kyra (2021-09)
    Haiti’s Central Plateau region suffers from significant malnutrition, economic hardship, and a crisis level of food insecurity. Already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere in terms of GDP per capita, Haiti has pervasively high malnutrition rates, but the Central Plateau region is one of its most severely affected areas. One in five children of the Central Plateau suffers from malnutrition, and the region exhibits a 30% rate of child stunting (the highest in the country). Our US-based team affiliated with Klinik Sen Jozèf, a well-known and community-respected medical clinic in the Central Plateau city of Thomassique, partnered with local Haitian leadership and Trees That Feed Foundation to introduce the agricultural tree product called breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) and an innovative development model to the area with the goal of combating local malnutrition. Breadfruit is highly valued in Thomassique and its surrounding villages, yet there are few local sources for it. A Haitian agronomist was hired to produce breadfruit saplings from trees donated to the clinic by Trees That Feed, and these saplings were then distributed among local farmers and community health committees. The agronomist provided appropriate crop training for breadfruit in conjunction with the sapling distribution. Four years into the program, the outcomes have been noteworthy enough to warrant sharing the process here. This article addresses the lessons learned during implementation of this program in an effort to assist others looking to introduce models or crops in a similar manner for similar purposes. While engaged in a literature review, we found very little written about how to plan and implement a program like ours, despite its potential for positively impacting the health and economic wellbeing of communities in developing nations. Our experience is particularly significant in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the United Nations World Food Programme projected the number of people affected by food insecurity to nearly double to 265 million worldwide by the end of 2020 as a result of it.
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    Agricultural data management and sharing: Best practices and case study
    Moore, Eli K.; Kriesberg, Adam; Schroeder, Steven; Geil, Kerrie; Haugen, Inga; Barford, Carol; Johns, Erica M.; Arthur, Dan; Sheffield, Megan; Ritchie, Stephanie M.; Jackson, Carolyn; Parr, Cynthia (2021-02-24)
    Agricultural data are crucial to many aspects of production, commerce, and research involved in feeding the global community. However, in most agricultural research disciplines standard best practices for data management and publication do not exist. Here we propose a set of best practices in the areas of peer review, minimal dataset development, data repositories, citizen science initiatives, and support for best data management. We illustrate some of these best practices with a case study in dairy agroecosystems research. While many common, and increasingly disparate data management and publication practices are entrenched in agricultural disciplines, opportunities are readily available for promoting and adopting best practices that better enable and enhance data-intensive agricultural research and production.
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    Appendices in relation to "Information Literacy Instruction Programs: Supporting the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Community at Virginia Tech" published in Library Trends
    DeBose, Kyrille; Haugen, Inga; Miller, Rebecca K. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016-10-07)
    The following items in this record are the appendices that accompany an article published in the Winter 2017 issue of Library Trends. The six appendices include:
    A: "Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise Information Literacy Program" B: "Learning Outcomes for the First Year Experience (FYE) Agriculture & Life Sciences (ALS) Course" C: "GRAD 5124 Lesson Plan, Learning Objectives, and Weekly Assignments" D: "Scientific Writing Workshop: Synthesizing and Paraphrasing What You Read" E: "Learning Outcomes for AREC and Extension Visits" F: “'Seminar for Scholars' Workshop Series (Topics and Learning outcomes)"
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    Assessing consumer perceptions, attitudes, knowledge and barriers towards consumption of captured and cultured seafood in Virginia and Maryland
    Villalba, Abigail; van Senten, Jonathan; Haugen, Inga; Liu, Catherine; Cole, Austin (2020-03-05)
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    The Breadfruit Project
    Haugen, Inga (2019-05-06)
    The Breadfruit Project at St. Joseph’s Clinic in Thomassique, Haiti., “helps us with malnourished children. It helps us with pregnant women. It helps us to eat also. …It helps us to have a Haiti that is Greener.” Charles St. Fleur Jr., clinic manager.
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    Building Partnerships to Address Social and Technological Challenges to Enhance Farm Profitability and Improve Water Quality Through Better Grassland Management
    Stafford, Carl; Clark, Robert; Ritchie, Liesel A.; Pent, Gabriel; Fike, John H.; Benner, John; Swanson, Carrie; Baker, Scott; Mize, Timothy; Temu, Vitalis; Payne, Kathryn; Gill, Duane A.; Mullins, D.; McGuire, R.; Teutsch, Chris; Thomason, Wade E.; Grev, Amanda; Blevins, Phil; Clarke, C.; Poore, Matt; Booher, Matt; Stanley, Tom; Halich, Greg; Bovay, John; Love, Kenner; Byington, amy A.; Baldwin, Elizabeth; Haugen, Inga (2023-05-15)
    With 2.1 million acres of pastureland and 1.25 million acres of hay land in Virginia, the rural Virginia landscape is predominately grassland. These lands form the base of the $3.96 billion-dollar livestock and dairy industry in Virginia. Managing these livestock in a profitable manner for farmers and beneficial to the environment is important. A cultural tradition with roots in colonial times has been to run animals in large fields year-round throughout Virginia. Livestock often graze from spring until fall (about 220 days), and farmers feed hay the remainder of the year. Spikes in the cost of fuel, fertilizer, and equipment are making traditional grazing/haying systems less profitable. The Virginia Cooperative Extension Farm Enterprise budgets show that that the cost of hay accounts for over 50% of the cost of sustaining livestock annually. University of Kentucky shows that most cow-calf producers maximize their profitability by shifting from grazing 220 days to grazing 275 to 300 days. Extension agents working with livestock producers found that they could improve their profitability by at least $75 per cow by extending their grazing season. The same phenomenon applies to other types of grazing livestock. If ten percent of the livestock producers in the state adopted better grazing management to extend their grazing season by 60 days, profitability is expected to for Virginia grazing livestock producers by over $5 million per year. Practices such as rotational grazing and stream exclusion are directly tied to National and State goals to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. Virginia’s Phase III WIP (Chesapeake Bay Watershed Improvement Plan) seeks the exclusion of livestock from all perennial streams and achieving good rotational grazing practices on 347,000 acres of pasture. A number of agencies and private sector groups have been providing cost share and technical guidance to incentivize livestock stream exclusion and the installation of pasture management infrastructure. Installation is only part of the challenge. Farmers also need to be taught how to how to manage the system in a profitable manner and have been slow to adopt good pasture management practices. Preliminary data show that 87% of Virginia’s cow-calf producers manage their grasslands using traditional methods. Only six percent have extended their grazing season beyond 265 days.
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    Case Study and Teaching Notes of THE ASCENSION OF ASUNCIÓN'S BILL
    Haugen, Inga; McFadden, Fiona; O'Fallon, Nash; Thompson, Cris; Williams, Travis (2021-12-08)
    A group assignment for LDRS 5984 Summer of 2021 at Virginia Tech, this case study and teaching notes are available for instructors to teach about farmworker fatalies and policy around farmworker protections. Because of the need for legislative action to protect farm workers from heat-related illness and death, this case study focuses on United States House of Representative Judy Chu (D-California). Chu represents the 27th Congressional District, which includes Pasadena and the west San Gabriel Valley of southern California. Chu has been an outspoken advocate for migrant rights and was the key sponsor of the Ascunsion Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act which was introduced in July, 2019. At the time of this publishing, the Valdivia Act was still held up in committee in Congress.
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    Developing a Plan for a More Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Library at a Research 1 Land-Grant University
    Briganti, Jonathan S.; Dodson, Brittany; Haugen, Inga; McMillan, Gail; Mecham, Ronald; Ogier, Andrea; Phillips, Shannon; Wright de Hernandez, Anthony (ACRL Diversity Alliance, 2021-12-20)
    Using the Virginia Tech strategic plan as a guide, a team of its University Libraries faculty and staff designed a strategic planning approach for the library that directly engaged with University goals and explored two areas: 1) contributing to the equity-, diversity-, and inclusion-related (EDI) goals laid out in the University strategic plan, and 2) expanding upon efforts to broaden diversity and representation in the library. The team identified four major themes: accessibility, climate, employment and professional development, outreach, and advocacy, and used these themes to develop specific recommendations. The process served to shine the light on these topics within the library, allowing for reflection and self-understanding, crucial components to change and grow with more attention to inclusion and diversity. Recognizing a need for change, it is hoped the report leads to better advocacy and ally-ship and brings issues to light for other libraries engaging in similar processes.
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    Digging Deeper into Text and Data Mining
    Haugen, Inga; Lener, Edward F.; Pannabecker, Virginia; Young, Philip (Virginia Tech, 2017-10)
    Text and data mining (TDM) approaches are increasingly used for research in a variety of disciplines to create, explore, and analyze large datasets. This presentation explores opportunities for library support for TDM, including expanding licensing permissions, clarifying legal aspects, identifying TDM sources and tools, developing expertise, and outreach.
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    Extension Microfilm Digitization Project: Putting History Into Our Hands
    Haugen, Inga; Westblade, Julia; Russell, Meagan (2024-05-07)
    The Virginia Cooperative Extension microfilm digitization project aims to create digital copies of and provide access to the agricultural reports of the state of Virginia. These primary source reports consist of the work of extension agents at the county-level from 1908 to 1968 for men and women from white communities and communities of color, including information regarding production and salaries. This paper will discuss the process of digitizing 141 reels of microfilm and making the contents accessible to researchers. The paper will highlight the methodologies and challenges experienced during the process as well as the importance of the data uncovered in the documents. It will give an overview of the effort it takes to provide access to primary resources that researchers need to uncover untold stories. Digitization of the Microfilm The original documents were scanned onto microfilm in the 1960s. The digitization lab at Virginia Tech's Newman Library has digitized, reformatted, sorted, and combined into text-searchable PDFs over 100,000 pages of county-level reports adhering to FADGI standards. The team had to document progress as the project moved through several stages of production before members of the team sorted through these PDFs to create item-level metadata to ensure the reports are findable and searchable. Document Overview/ Importance This set of microfilm was the most complete set in the state and in WorldCat, and had a reel guide of the counties and years for only 86 of the 141 reels. This project will bring to light individual reports, the authors, and the extension work that was happening in the whole state from 1908-1968. Because the authors include women and Black extension agents, this work brings local history into the hands of the communities we currently serve. As an example, a technician saw a report about her partner’s grandfather while processing the collection.
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    Extension Programs, Altmetrics and the Scholarship of Engagement
    Haugen, Inga; Troia, Lily (2018-09-26)
    A project to create personas to help engage different audiences/stakeholders with altmetrics. Translational Scholarship: understanding pathways to broader impact Land Grant universities, extension agents, and knowledge exchange Boyer and the Scholarship of Engagement Developing altmetrics user personas for translational scholarship Case study: Scholarship at Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Emerging themes discovered
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    Harnessing Altmetric Data for Translational Research & Community Development: A Case Study
    Haugen, Inga; Troia, Lily (2018-06-05)
    As a land grant university, Virginia Tech has long prioritized cooperative partnerships with regional organizations, delivering translational research to local populations via the work of their Extension Agents and Specialists and the Agriculture Research Education Centers. Librarian Inga Haugen supports faculty and researchers from the Colleges of Natural Resources and Environment and of Agriculture and Life Sciences. These various county-level researchers are tasked with community education and collaboration, ensuring vital information reaches farmers, businesses, and the general public. Often this research emerges in non-article formats--as blogs and outreach materials, curriculum or rubrics, videos, newsletters, and more. In addition, extension programs foster a commitment to open access research, producing resources intended for reuse and further development. Altmetrics provides Virginia Tech with valuable data about the reach and repurposing of their research, and evidence of broader societal impact beyond traditional, citation-based metrics. This case study shares Haugen’s work with Altmetric Engagement Manager and Librarian Lily Troia to create several distinct user personas related to the extension programs. These personas are viewed as critical component of VT Libraries' Altmetric initiative, targeting workflow integrations in support of educational strategies, and promoting a sustainable exchange of information with the wider community.
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    Image Copyright and Fair Use
    Haugen, Inga (Virginia Tech, 2020-06-12)
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    Introduction to Copyright for Extension Master Gardeners
    Haugen, Inga (Virginia Tech, 2021-02-24)
    This presentation will discuss Copyright. This was an introduction module made for Extension Master Gardeners but may be useful for others.
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    Introduction to Creative Commons for Extension Master Gardeners
    Haugen, Inga (Virginia Tech, 2021-02-24)
    This presentaion will discuss Creative Commons. This was a overview for the Extension Master Gardeners but may be useful for others.
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    Introduction to Fair Use for Extension Master Gardeners
    Haugen, Inga (Virginia Tech, 2021-02-24)
    This presentation will discuss Fair Use. This was presented to Extension Master Gardeners but may be useful for others as well. The Fair Use LibGuide was used as well as the ala.org website
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    Introduction to Publicly Available Resources for Extension Master Gardeners
    Haugen, Inga (Virginia Tech, 2021-02-24)
    This presentation will discuss Publicly Available Resources. This was presented to Extension Master Gardeners but can be useful for others as well. This video will go through the Publicly Assessible Resources LibGuide and VTechWorks.
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    Library Support for Text and Data Mining: A Report for the University Libraries at Virginia Tech
    Young, Philip; Haugen, Inga; Lener, Edward F.; Pannabecker, Virginia; Brittle, Collin (Virginia Tech, 2017-07-28)
    This report examines how the University Libraries at Virginia Tech have supported text and data mining in the past, and how academic libraries in general are providing support for it. The report looks at licensing content for TDM as well as legal and technical aspects. The report concludes with recommendations for the University Libraries in order to support TDM for Virginia Tech researchers. Two appendices cover TDM interview questions and links to selected academic library guides to TDM, and selected references and websites are included.