Sneak Preview: Bear River Watershed Historical Digital Collection Presented by Steve Sturgeon & Cheryl Walters USU Spring Runoff Conference, March 2006

Facts & features Funded by USU Water Initiative Grant & the Library Desktop access to historical info about the Bear River Watershed. Digitizes research materials from University’s Special Collections & features them in a web-based collection. Includes maps, reports, photos, slides, & plat book Coming soon: theses, manuscripts, field notes, and more Special enhancements let researchers:  zoom maps  search selected fields or full text  easily import into Powerpoint presentations  compare data & images using My Favorites

One of the USU Library’s Digital Collections

and now also… Part of a national collection on Water in the U.S. West

Cool features…  zoom maps  search selected fields or full text  easily import into Powerpoint presentations  compare data & images using My Favorites

Zoom in on details…

For maps, text, or both…

Read multipage documents Cache County Township Plats Title - Cache County Township Plats Description - The Cache County Township Plat book contains handwritten registration information for townships in Cache County, Utah. For each township and range unit, ledger entries provide plat numbers, the names of the people to whom they are registered, and registration dates while an accompanying hand-drawn map shows the corresponding plat areas via plat numbers written in red ink. Features drawn onto the 26 plat maps include lakes, rivers, springs, roads, saw mills, town grids, and Cache county boundaries with adjacent Box Elder, Rich, and Weber counties. Each ledger page is pre-printed with the following heading: Entries in Township __ North, Range __ Salt Lake Base and Meridian. Pre-printed ledger columns are: Plat no., Entry no., Description, Section, Name, Date of Entry, Date of Patent, Patent Received At Land Office, Remarks. A few township units have ledger entries, but no accompanying plat map. The plat volume includes many blank ledger pages interspersed throughout; the Subject - Landowners -- Utah -- Cache County -- Maps; Land titles -- Registration and transfer -- Utah -- Cache County -- Maps Material type - Plat books; Plat maps Date.Original

… page by page

Fully searchable By material type By collection By topic By any words in text or descriptions

Search for terms: blacksmith fork flood* [retrieves flood, floods, floodwater, etc.]

Multi-page report shows pages where terms are found [pages bracketed in red]

Results: image & text with search terms highlighted

Advanced Search: limiting searches for more precision

Easy printing of multipage items Print version for easy printing of reports

Links Links lead to other web resources on the Bear River Watershed

Links to related Bear River Watershed web resources

Import into Powerpoint Presentation Step 1: install the CONTENTdm 4 PowerPoint Plug-in (CDM4PPT Plugin) Step 2: save desired images into My Favorites list in the Digital Library Step 3: open up your PowerPoint Presentation and import the images

You can import as much or as little text as you want…… all metadata fields or just title

Environmental Conditions volume 1 Title - Environmental Conditions Inventory and Quality Rating Description - Environmental Conditions Inventory and Quality Rating, a working paper, March This first volume in a four-volume report summarizes environmental conditions of the Bear River Watershed in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. Work on this project was performed between July 1, 1974 and September 39, Prepared by the Utah Division of Water Resources for the Bear River Basin Cooperative Study, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, this report includes maps, tables, and illustrations. Subject - Bear River (Utah-Idaho); Bear River (Utah-Idaho) -- Environmental conditions; Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho) -- Environmental conditions Location - Idaho; Utah; Wyoming; Bear River Watershed (Utah- Idaho) Geographic data - Photographer - Author - Utah. Division of Water Resources Publisher of Original - United States. Dept. of Agriculture; United States. Soil Conservation Service; United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Economic Research Service; United States. Forest Service Material type - Reports Image Number - Environmental Conditions volume 1 Date.Original Collection - Utah State University Library, Special Collections and Archives, Books USU Call Number B38ec v.1 Source - Working paper for Bear River Basin cooperative study, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, v. 1 / prepared by Utah Division of Water Resources. Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Division of Water Resources, Taken from - Format - Text/Jpeg Cited by - Bear River Watershed Historical Bibliography / compiled by Utah State University Library, Special Collections and Archives, 2005 Transcript - Image File Name - UUS_lib_brw_33391b38ecv1

Environmental Conditions volume 1

Step 1. Install the PPT plug-in & request the CONTENTdm PPT plug-in Will the plug-in program as an attachment Double click on attached plug-in icon to install it; follow installation instructions on the screen Type your name as “user name” and “Utah State University” as “institution” when prompted

Step 1 continued Upon finishing the installation of the plug-in, a CONTENTdm button is added to the left side of the PowerPoint menu bar.

Step 2. Saving items into My Favorites Using Netscape or Internet Explorer, go to the USU Digital Library at Select a desired item by opening it (double click on item) or checking the box next to it Click on Add to My Favorites at top of screen to save the selected item(s) At any time you may view, compare, move, or remove images from your My Favorites file by clicking on My Favorites

My Favorites: Tagging items to add

My Favorites: …clicking on “add to favorites”

… Opening My Favorites

My Favorites: Options Compare items Remove items Change order of items Save as a web page or Import into Powerpoint

Step 3. Import images into PowerPoint Open up your PowerPoint program and click the CONTENTdm button (created in Step 1). When prompted, type in the server URL:

3. … continued Import with lots of text data (Metadata) or just the Title.

We want your feedback! What would you like added to this collection? More theses? More maps More on a particular topic? Your research results? Other specific titles? What do you like about the digital collection & website? How can we improve it? Please send your comments to: or contact anyone on the project team listed on next page.

Bear River Watershed Digital Collection team Project Team: From Special Collections: Brad Cole (Head); Dan Davis, Photograph Curator Bob Parson, University Archivist ; Stephen Sturgeon, Manuscript Curator From Digital Library Program: Cheryl Walters (Head); Heather Leary (Imaging)