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The Library helps add and manage content. bureaus, and Departments of Portals • A portal is established based on the wants and Agriculture are needs of the owner, in this case MSU Extension. scrambling for • It provides the appearance and consistency across information on pages, including colors, fonts, header information and clickable-contents for navigation. how to grow • The portal is also the container and organizer of grapes, make the individual modules. wine, and find • The portal can be set up with multiple columns and sections. We use a 3-column arrangement, enjoyment and profit in the Bibliography of Norton / Cynthiana, Vitis aestivalis Resources Additional Content with the center column bearing the bulk of process. From this need grew Norton / Cynthiana, Vitis aestivalis, is probably the primary cultivar grown and researched in the Midwest, if not all of Eastern Viticulture. Consequently, this running information. bibliography is compiled in order to assist those growing and conducting research on this • Additional content can always grape. The page is divided into two (2) primary sections: Norton/Cynthiana as a cultivated grape and wine, and Vitis aestivalis as a wild (sometimes pesky) grape species. the AgNIC Viticulture website Websites and other online information regarding this grape are on the AgNIC Viticulture be added as its own module, or website, Grape Cultivars, subset Norton/Cynthiana Grapes. Within each sections, material formats are divided into two (2) sections: Books and other bound materials, and Articles. another format. and it’s compilation of more Resources are listed by author, title, source/publisher, and volume.issue (date): page(s). Materials pertaining only to Cynthiana/Norton wines are in purple. than 600 links about grape Cynthiana/Norton Books, Extension Publications, Government Documents x Adams, Leon David and Bridgett Novak. 1990. The Wines of America. New culture in the United States York : McGraw-Hill. x Ames, Guy. 1999. Organic Grape Production. Fayetteville, Ark.: ATTRA. x Anderson, R.J. 1923. Chemical Studies of Grape Pigments; The Anthocyanins in Norton and Concord Grapes; Technical Bulletin No. 96. Geneva, N.Y. : New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. and abroad. This poster will x Cattell, Hudson. 1978-1980. The Wines of the East: Native American Grapes. Lancaster, PA : L & H Photojournalism. x Cowie, G. R. 1990. Quality of must and wine as influence by cultivar, trellis system and leaf removal. Thesis, University of Arkansas. show how these hundreds x Dillon, C.R., C. Price, J. Morris, and D. Metz. 1994. The technological and economic framework of wine and juice production in Arkansas. Bulletin 941. Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. x Dillon, C.R., C. Price, J. Morris, and D. Ward. 1994. An appraisal of the of links are categorized economic feasibility of wine and juice production in Arkansas. Bulletin 942. Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. x Galet, Pierre. 1979. A Practical Ampelography: Grapevine Identification. Ithaca, N.Y.: Comstock Pub. Associates. x Hedrick, U. P. 1908. Grapes of New York. Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon company, and arranged so they can state printers. x Howell, G.S. ?. Grape varieties for Michigan’s vineyards. Extension Bulletin E. Cooperative Extension Service, Michigan State University. East Lansing, be found and be used by Mich.: The Service. librarians and patrons alike. • An example (above) is the Bibliography of Norton/Cynthiana, Vitis aestivalis, Resources, a Word doc MSU Contacts that is linked from the Suzi Teghtmeyer Viticulture – Cultivars: Agriculture, Botany & Norton/ Modules Cynthiana • A module holds the content on an individual Forestry Librarian Grapes topic and functions like a mini-webpage within [email protected] module. the portal. Module • Once a module is constructed, it can be added Cindy Straus where ever its need, potentially across many Arrangement pages. MSU Extension Specialist • The headings on • Information can be arranged using lists, bullets, [email protected] the table of contents page link to its own portal page, where the and tables. subheadings are individual modules. • They can include hyperlinks and images. • The arrangement of the modules can easily be changed to • Note in this module the “Table of Contents” look, accommodate an increase or decrease in the content level. using headings and subheadings. The headings • Note that large-content modules are in the wide center column, the link to daughter modules where the subheadings the lesser-content modules are in the far right, narrow column. are individual modules on that subtopic..