Collection Development Policy Statement: Agriculture

LC Classification

Subject

Level

Notes

S1-20

General Agriculture-Serials

3B

S-21-131

Documents – U.S. Federal, Regional & State

4

S133-164

Documents – Canada

3B

S165-400

Documents – Other than the above areas.

2

S401

International Documents

4

S403

Missions and Voyages

2

S405-417

Collections & Biography

3A

S419-481

History and Conditions

3B

This area overlaps with areas in the H classes, especially the HD’s.

S484

Agricultural Departments

2

S491-494.5

Classical Works & Special Aspects of Agriculture

3B

S495-588

Texts, Agricultural Education, Research, Extension, Farm Economics, Arithmetic, Chemistry & Analysis.

 2A

S589-592.147

Soil Science, Growing Media, and Soil Surveys

3B

S600-600.7

Agricultural Meteorology

3A

Additionally, statistical material and data sets have been issued by the
USDA and are in US governenment documents.

S604.5-621

Methods and Systems of Farming and Cultivation, Organic Farming, Arid or Dry Farming, Saline Areas, and Moors

4

S622-667

Soil Improvement and Conservation, and Fertilizers

3B

S671-790

Agricultural Engineering, both Structures and Machinery

3B

S900-954

Conservation of Natural Resources

3B

PLANT CULTURE

SB19-29

Documents

3B

SB39

Voyages

2

Most of this is in general natural history, botanical or geological voyage reports.

SB41-87

Collection Writings Study, Teaching, Biography and History

SB107-109

Economic Botany and Plant Introduction

3B

Much of the latter subject is found in the USDA Bureau of Plant Introduction documents shelved in the US government collection

SB110-112

Dry Farming, Tropical Agriculture, and Irrigation Farming

3B

SB113.2-118.45

Seeds

3C

SB118.5-.75

Nurseries

4

SB119.129

Propagation, Artificial Light Culture, Forcing, Growth, Regulation, Harvesting, Curing, and Storage

4

SB170

Tree Crops other than horticultural crops

4

SB209-261

Root crops, Sugar, Textile fibers and other crops

4

SB265-291

Alkaloid plants, dry plants, gum, and rubber plants.

2

SB292-295

Insecticidal and medicinal plant culture

2

SB298-307

Oil and Spice Plants

4

SB309-437

Flowers, House Plants, Vegetables, Tree Fruit Shrubs, and Ornamental Trees

4

SB450-485

Gardens, Gardening, Landscape Gardening, Parks, and Public Reservations

4

Overlaps with Parks and Recreation

SB599-998

Pests, Weeds, Poisonous Plants, Plant Diseases, Control-Chemical and Biological, and Plant Inspection

4