Turfgrass Information Center Michigan State University Libraries What’s New in Industry Forum -- C-5 -- 2005 Theses & Dissertations Digitization Within the Turfgrass Information File (TGIF) Pete Cookingham Turfgrass Information Center Michigan State University Libraries tic.msu.edu
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TGIF Contains a Variety of Item Types, Including Periodical Articles, Research and Technical Reports, Books and Book Chapters, Published Q&As, Scanned Golf Course Plans From and Video Interviews With Selected Members of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, Sample Photographs from the Noer/Milorganite® Division MMSD Image Collection, and, of course, Thesis and Dissertations!
Turfgrass Theses and Dissertations are Being Loaded as Searchable Full-Text PDFs as Copyright Permissions are Cleared
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Of the 1,500 + items, about 100 are now available via TGIF or institutional repositories
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