The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) has announced that the National Agricultural Library (NAL) has become ASERL's first-ever Program Affiliate. Through this agreement, NAL will partner with ASERL libraries to retain important agriculture-related print journals as part of ASERL's 'Scholars Trust' program, and NAL will use the 'JRNL' software tool to manage these holdings and make them discoverable to other program partners.
Created in 2010, the Scholars Trust program includes more than 12,000 print journal titles held by 25 ASERL libraries and the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC). Participating libraries agree to maintain these items for use until 2035. Within this archive of more than 12,000 journals is a set of approximately 1,100 agriculture-related titles, held primarily by US Land Grant institutions within ASERL.
As a result of the new alliance with NAL, an additional 875 titles will be held under this agreement by the National Agricultural Library and made available to any Scholars Trust library.
