When Joe Dillard, the School of Natural Resources (SNR) Building Room 47 archivist, needed to update their list of fish and wildlife theses and dissertations, he found it to be quite a project. Their current archive, housed in glassed-in cabinets, was incomplete. Karen Decker (from SNR), was able to procure them from the University Library so they could be processed. Karen also prepared the list so it can be viewed on the SNR website. Niki Fuemmeler developed the spreadsheet for the project, and Genevieve Howard from the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources uploaded the list: https://snr.missouri.edu/graduate-studies/fisheries-and-wildlife-graduate-program/. Joe decided to take on additional tasks by enhancing the list with more attributes, beyond the basics, such as the page numbers, outside funding sources, and accessibility from the University Library through a spreadsheet provided by Corrie Hutchinson, Associate University Librarian at Ellis Library. In order to provide this additional information, Joe had to peruse each of the 636 copies, dating all the way back to 1937!
Now that the project is complete, the main goal is to keep the list up to date. For anyone reading this who published a thesis, dissertation, or both, please check the information on your project(s) to make sure the information is correct. For now, thanks to hard work from everyone, the “SNR Room 47 Project” is complete!