1. Turfgrass Information Center Michigan State University Libraries
What’s New in Industry Forum -- C
Theses & Dissertations Digitization Within the Turfgrass Information File (TGIF)
Pete Cookingham
Turfgrass Information Center
Michigan State University Libraries
tic.msu.edu

2. TGIF Basic Search Screen

3. 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!

4. Turfgrass Theses and Dissertations are Being Loaded as Searchable Full-Text PDFs as Copyright Permissions are Cleared

5. Large PDFs will be Segmented

6. Sponsored Theses and Dissertations and Author-Granted Copyright Permissions will be Acknowledged

7. Of the 1,500 + items, about 100 are now available via TGIF or institutional repositories

8. A signed permission release Thank you!
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