The Historic Department of Plants, Soils & Climate records
Scope and Contents
The Historic Department of Plants, Soils & Climate records include syllabuses office files, reports, and assorted files created by professors, staff, and students. This collection only includes materials created prior to 2025 belonging to the Departments of Horticulture, Agronomy, Plant Science, Soil Science and Biometeorology, and other related departments.
Future acquisitions from the Department of Plants, Soils and Climate records post 2025 will collected under a new collection number.
Dates
- Creation: 1946-2002
Language of Materials
Material in English
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the The Historic Department of Plants, Soils and Climate records must be obtained from the University Archivist and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Extent
3.5 Linear Feet (9 boxes)
Abstract
The Historic Department of Plants, Soils and Climate records include syllabuses office files, reports, and assorted files created by professors, staff, and students.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into the three series, I. Syllabus, II. Office Files, and III. Reports and Proceedings.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was collected by Utah State University Archives.
Bibliography
From 1957 to 2025, the Department of Plants, Soils & Climate, and all previous iterations, operated out of the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences until its closure in 2025.The department now operates out of the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Agriculture & Natural Resources under the same department name.
Processing Information
Reprocessed in 2025, as part of the University Archives remediation project. Collection was originally split into collections dedicated to Soils and Biometeorology, Plant Science, and Agronomy.
Orginally processed prior to 2020.
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Historic Department of Plants, Soils and Climate records Guide to the Historic Department of Plants, Soils and Climate records 1946-2002
- Author
- Finding aid/Register created by Abbie Chesley and Kelly Rovegno
- Date
- 2025
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English.
Revision Statements
- 2009: Template information was updated to reflect Archives West best practice guidelines.
- 2025: Reprocessed in 2025, as part of the University Archives remediation project. Combined the following collections: 14.1/7:11, 14.1/7:36, 14.1/7:43, 14.1/7:47, 14.1/7:54, 14.1/7:82, 14.1/9-1, 14.1/9:36, 14.1/9:54, 14.1/9:56, 14.1/10:36, 14.1/10:38, 14.1/10:63, 14.1/10:80, 14.1/7-2:80.
Repository Details
Part of the Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Repository
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan Utah 84322-3000 United States
435 797-8248
435 797-2880 (Fax)
scweb@usu.edu