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Collections Policy Statements and Supplementary Guidelines

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Collections Policy Statements

Agriculture
Anthropology, Archaeology and Ethnology
Biotechnology
(Joint Policy with NAL and NLM)
Cartographic and Geospatial Materials
Chemical Sciences
Children's Literature
Comics and Cartoons
Computer Science, Telecommunication and Artificial Intelligence
Cookery, Nutrition and Food Technology
Dance
Developing Countries
Dissertations and Theses

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Earth Sciences
Economics and Business
Education
Environmental Sciences
Ephemera
Ethnic Publications
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Fine and Applied Arts -- Non-book Materials (Graphic Arts)
Fine and Decorative Arts -- Books and Periodicals
Folklore and Folklife
Genealogy
General Works
Geography and Cartography
Government Publications -- Foreign
Government Publications -- United States
History of Science and History of Technology
Human Nutrition and Food
(Joint Policy with NAL and NLM)
International Organizations
Law
Library and Information Science, and Bibliography
Life Sciences
Literature and Language
Local History

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Manuscripts
Mathematics
Medicine
Military Science
Moving Image Materials
Music
Naval Science
Newspapers -- Foreign
Newspapers -- United States
Numismatics and Philately
Periodicals of General Content
Philosophy
Photography
Physical Sciences
Political Science
Psychology
Religion

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Science -- General
Societies and Associations
Sociology
Sound Recordings and Radio
Sports and Recreation
Standards
Technical Reports, Working Papers and Preprints
Technology
Telephone and City Directories
Theater
Translations
United States History
Veterans History Project

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Supplementary Guidelines

Book Jackets
Electronic Resources
Microforms -- Quality
Non-library Materials
Web Archiving

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