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Collections Policy Statements

Archived Collections Policy Statements are available upon request via the Ask a Librarian Service.

  • Agriculture
  • Analog Geospatial Materials (This Collections Policy Statement and the Collections Policy Statement on Digital Geospatial Materials replace the former Collections Policy Statement titled Cartographic and Geospatial Materials.)
  • Anthropology and Archaeology
  • Business and Economics
  • Cartographic and Geospatial Materials (This Collections Policy Statement is replaced by Collections Policy Statements on Analog Geospatial Materials and Digital Geospatial Materials.)
  • Chemical Sciences
  • Children's Literature
  • Classics and the Ancient, Medieval, and Byzantine Worlds
  • Comics and Cartoons
  • Computer Science, Telecommunication and Artificial Intelligence
  • Cooking, Nutrition and Food Technology (This CPS revision also replaces the joint policy document with NAL and NLM entitled Human Nutrition and Food.)
  • Countries and Regions with Acquisitions Challenges (This Collections Policy Statement replaces the former Collections Policy Statement entitled Developing Countries.)
  • Dance
  • Digital Geospatial Materials (This Collections Policy Statement and the Collections Policy Statement on Analog Geospatial Materials replace the former Collections Policy Statement titled Cartographic and Geospatial Materials.)
  • Dissertations and Theses
  • Earth Sciences
  • Education
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Ephemera
  • Ethnic Materials -- United States
  • 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 -- Non-U.S.
  • Government Publications -- United States
  • History of Science and History of Technology
  • International Organizations
  • Law
  • LGBTQIA+ Studies
  • Library and Information Science, and Bibliography
  • Life Sciences
  • Literature and Language
  • Local History
  • Manuscripts
  • Materials Relating to Indigenous Peoples of the United States, Canada, and Mexico
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine
  • Military Science
  • Moving Image Materials
  • Music
  • Naval Science
  • Newspapers -- Non-U.S.
  • Newspapers -- United States
  • Numismatics and Philately
  • Periodicals of General Content
  • Philosophy
  • Photography
  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Religion
  • Science -- General
  • Societies, Associations, and Nongovernmental Organizations
  • Sociology
  • Sound Recordings and Radio
  • Sports, Recreation, and Leisure
  • Standards
  • Technical Reports, Working Papers and Preprints
  • Technology
  • Telephone and City Directories
  • Theater
  • Translations
  • United States History
  • Veterans History Project
  • Women’s and Gender Studies

Supplementary Guidelines

  • Book Jackets
  • Datasets
  • Electronic Resources
  • Independently Published and Self-Published Textual Materials
  • Library of Congress Publications and Other Content
  • Microforms -- Quality
  • Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
  • Non-library Materials
  • Open Digital Content
  • Social Media
  • Web Archiving

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