Library Catalogs and Subject Classifications in Fisheries
Library catalogs are used to locate monographic (book) materials. These may be either "primary" publications--conference proceedings, technical reports, theses, and dissertations--or "secondary" publications--textbooks, treatises, handbooks and similar publications derived from the "primary" literature.
- Library of Congress Classification System
- Government Documents Classification Systems
- HSU Library Catalog
- Other Library Catalogs--General
- Other Library Catalogs--Fisheries
Library of Congress Classification System
The general book collection in the HSU Library is organized on the shelves by subject using this classification system used by most academic libraries in the United States. (In addition most special collections in the HSU Library- "Periodicals," "Reference," "Map and Atlas," and "Indexes and Abstracts" - all follow this same subject arrangement.) The Library of Congress Classification Outline (Library of Congress) gives a general overview of the entire classification system. Listed below are the major classification areas where fisheries literature is likely to be found:
Library Catalog
The HSU Library Catalog can be searched by author, title, or subject. Since subject searching is often the most difficult Biological Searching in Library Catalogs offers both general techniques and specific suggestions for conducting a subject search.
Other Library Catalogs--Fisheries
Library catalogs connected with universities, govenment agencies and other institutions with programs in wildlife can be used to identify "secondary" and some "primary" literature held in libraries around the world. The Library's Interlibrary Loan Service can be used to borrow most materials found in other libraries. Some specific library catalogs of interest in fisheries include the following.
- FAO Catalogue (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Includes all documents and publications produced by FAO since 1945, and books added to the FAO Library since 1976. Provides links to fulltext when available.
- Natural Agricultural Library (US Department of Agriculture) Detailed catalog of book, serial, and government document literature acquired since 1862 by the major agricultural research library in the United States. Many serial publications are individually cataloged.
- NOAA Library (US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency) Includes holdings of libraries throughout NOAA, including the National Marine Fisheries Service.
- Oregon State University Library
- Streamnet Library Focus is on technical report literature on anadromous fisheries in the Columbia Basin.
- University of Washington Fisheries - Oceanography Library
- WAVES (Fisheries and Oceans Canada) Combined catalog of 12 Libraries of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.