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INDEX

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