A Fugitive Discipline

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• A Fugitive Discipline Literature
• Finding Turfgrass Science
• Pete Cookingham
• Michigan State University Libraries
• NRIC 2007 -- Las Vegas 4 August 2007

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I hope to introduce

• Who cares why ie. Does it matter?
• What turf is
• Whos involved
• Why me
• Why you

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So What?

• Land coverage -- sheer amount of turf

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Extent of Turfgrass Cover USA (Milesi, 2005)
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So What?

• Land coverage -- sheer amount of turf
• Participation -- sheer number of doers
• Water use -- turf in Las Vegas?
• CO emissions -- mowers, etc.
• Pesticide use what/where/when/who
• Fertilizer use what/where/when/who
• Public policy -- who decides?

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Turf Benefits (further to Beard and Green, 1994)

• Erosion control, dust stabilization, soil
  building capacity, including remediation
• Groundwater recharge runoff buffering
• Heat dissipation, noise abatement, glare
  reduction, fire-resistance, road and airfield
  safety
• Habitat green space
• Recreational use Soccer, golf, cricket,
  softball, bocci, football, baseball, hurling,
  etc.
• Aesthetic Visual comfort

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Industry Sectors Maintenance Intensity

• Utility turf
• Roadsides/Airfields
• Cemeteries
• Landscapes/home lawns/parks grounds
• Golf course fairways/Sports turf/Sod
  production/Seed production
• Golf course greens

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Turf Sectors

• Breeding Genetics
• Landscape
• Lawn care
• Parks Grounds
• Roadsides
• Seed
• Sod
• Sports turf
• Utility turf

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Hopefully of interest.

• Cooperative/consortium project sector
  geographic independence
• Technology-based delivery to end-users since day
  one
• A very grey literature, and poorly collected
• We seek Exhaustive Bibliographic Control an
  archaic concept?

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This one gets personal

• Your yard
• Your condo
• Your campus
• Your school district
• Your local park facilities
• The Super Bowl, The World Cup, The World Series,
  and the White House

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Mission of the Turfgrass Information Center (TIC)

• Collect, digitize, preserve turfgrass
  materials, both print online
• Provide precise access to turf information
  resources, including the above
• Assist users of the materials access
• Provide physical and online infrastructure
  supporting turfgrass scholarship
• Build a stable long-term structure to continue
  this work

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TIC Online Presence

• Public website public resources
• Digitized serial runs
• Digitized monographs
• Digitized graphic visual content
• Turfgrass Information File (TGIF) database
• All formats, all languages, all turf, all
  content, Turfgrass Thesaurus indexing moving
  towards a disciplinary info base
• Limited access resources
• Digitized serial runs
• Beards Turfgrass Encyclopedia full text

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Turf trends..

• Turf has always been local it will be even more
  so in the future
• local legislative initiatives the irony of
  extremes

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Turf trends..

• Turf has always been local it will be even more
  so in the future
• local legislative initiatives the irony of
  extremes
• Water use

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Turf trends..

• Turf has always been local it will be even more
  so in the future
• local legislative initiatives the irony of
  extremes
• Water use
• GMOs NIMBY

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Turf trends..

• Turf has always been local it will be even more
  so in the future
• local legislative initiatives the irony of
  extremes
• Water use
• GMOs NIMBY
• Did I say water?

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Turf trends..

• Turf has always been local it will be even more
  so in the future
• local legislative initiatives the irony of
  extremes
• Water use
• GMOs NIMBY
• Did I say water?
• Breeding genetics because

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Can you breed this grass?

• Low, slow, aggressive growth habit
• Drought and salt tolerant
• Stays green(ish)
• Pest disease resistant
• High seed producer
• Fineleaf
• Great name

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Jeopardy!

• Top Hat
• Lexus
• Navajo
• Bono
• Bardot
• U-3
• Sundance
• Aphrodite

• Bueno
• Gettysburg
• Pee Dee
• Fire Ice
• Melba
• Ronja
• Blackberry
• Volt

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Jeopardy! same answer

• Merion
• Rebel IV
• Penncross
• Palmer V
• Tifdwarf
• Houndog 6
• Penn G-6
• Caddyshack II

• Penneagle
• Manhattan IV
• SR 4200
• TifSport
• Seadwarf
• Palmetto
• 609
• Mini Verde

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Why was I here?

• Turf is important to you as a NR information
  professional even if you really arent
  interested!
• Your institutions/organizations need to be
  involved, and we need you, too!
• And, if nothing else, please be sure to add our
  full-text hosted, public resources to your
  electronic serials lists theyre free!

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thank you!

• email if you have any questions about TIC or
  TGIF!
• Pete Cookingham
• cooking1_at_msu.edu
• tic.msu.edu