Acknowledgements
A number of people worked on and supported The KAES Index expanded beyond the Agri-
the KAES Indexing Project over the years: culture Library walls and various other people
Agnes McDowell began indexing at the beginning aided the effort:
and after her retirement continues to index Dr. C.O. Little, Dean of the College of Agriculture
the next phase of this project. Agnes did and former Associate Dean for Research,
subject analysis on 90% of the documents and supported the project from its inception and
virtually created the subject index. Agnes not provided funding for personnel. Dr. Little
only assigned subject descriptors, but also funded the indexing activity during the
spent a considerable amount of time research- current phase in some tight financial times.
ing the terminology on the older publications. Dr. Jan1esBoling, Associate Dean for Research,
Lil/ian Mesner designed the indexing portion of secured the funding for printing this index in
the project and worked on indexing until her a tight budget year. His enthusiasm for the
energy had to go into bringing up our online project when he saw the final product was
catalog. Lillian set the standards to be used in rewarding to those of us who worked on it.
the project and acted as technical consultant Mr. Paul Willis, Director of Libraries at the
through the entire project. University of Kentucky, provided funding for
Amelie Cltarron was hired as project manager and copying of worksheets, which was a large
handled the physical end of the project. She amount of copying.
continued to do this after she accepted an- Mr. Joseph Howard, Director of the National
other position in the Agriculture Library, and Agricultural Library, was interested enough
still acts as coordinator with the National to provide some planning and training money
Agricultural Library in submitting the to get the project off the ground.
worksheets. Dr. Robert Fe/ir, head of the Agricultural Data
Gracie Hale organized the electronic end of this Center. was interested in the project from the
project and continues to act as the technical beginning and provided the services of Jan
advisor on the production of this printed Hilton, d-Base programmer, at no cost. Jan
index as well as the electronic file. Gracie wrote a program to do what we needed; this
joined the staff of the Agriculture Library in was the key to the success of the indexing.
October of 1988 and still devotes part of her Dr. RoySigajQ1s, then a faculty member in the
time to the KAES Indexing Project. Agronomy Department. helped in researching
Graduate Assistants Lisa Amato, Loren Curtis, and old common plant names, a thankless task.
Lisa Maciejak worked on some of the index- Dr. Deborah B. Witliain, editor at the Kentucky
ing as part of their training but took it seri— Agricultural Experiment Station, has moni-
ously and followed through on it. tored this project from the beginning.
Mr. Jejj9·ey Hines, graphic designer in Agricultural
Communications. is responsible for the fine
appearance of this work.
The KAES Index is truly a joint effort of a number of people. and all of these people sustained their
interest and labor over a number of years to produce a publication of high quality.
Aiztoinette Paris Powell
Director. Agricultural Library