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Identifying, Developing, And Marketing Library Services To Cooperative Extension Personnel, Betty Rozum, Kevin Brewer
Identifying, Developing, And Marketing Library Services To Cooperative Extension Personnel, Betty Rozum, Kevin Brewer
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Cooperative Extension personnel are responsible for disseminating information of university-based research to the people of their state. At Utah State University, there were no library services in place to assist this population in meeting the demands for information. Extension personnel were surveyed to identify useful library services, and the results were used to develop and market library services. The land-grant university system was initiated by the Morrill Acts of 1862/1890 and expanded by the Smith-Lever Act of 1914. As a result of these acts of Congress, land-grant universities and colleges, including Utah State University (USU), have as their mission three …