Library Catalogs and Subject Classifications in Forestry
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
- HSU Library Catalog
- Other Library Catalogs--General
- Other Library Catalogs--Forestry
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 forestry literature is likely to be found:
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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--Forestry
Library catalogs connected with forestry universities, govenment agencies and other institutions 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 include the following. There is also a Partial Listing of World Forestry Libraries on the Internet.
- Catalogue of World Forestry Literature (Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau) (microfilm MF 246) Microfilm card catalog published in several cumulations that covers forestry literature from 1822-1977. More extensive in coverage than Forestry Abstracts. See Catalogue of World Forestry Literature for additional information on the catalog.
- Dictionary Catalogue of the Yale Forestry Library (Yale University) (ref SD 1 Y3) Cumulative catalog of the oldest "continuous" forestry library in the United States covering forestry literature from the early 18th century through 1962. Unique to the catalog is the inclusion of over 38,000 journal article references from forestry journals and magazines through 1940.
- FAO Catalogue (Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Includes all documents and publications produced by FAO since 1945 and books to the FAO Library since 1976. Provides links to fulltext when available.
FS INFO Database (U.S. Forest Service)
Includes over 180,000 references to journal papers, conference papers, technical
reports and government documents, including 55,000 USFS publications, from
1904 to the present. Also includes links to 4500 fulltext USFS publications.
- IUFRO Reference Library (International Union of Forestry Research Organizations) Includes literature related to forest research found in the reference library of the IUFRO Secretariat and in the library of the Austrian Federal Forest Research Centre (FBVA). The IUFRO database contains mainly proceedings from IUFRO meetings and IUFRO publications such as World Series and Occational Papers. The FBVA database includes all publications added since 1981 and all publications of FBVA members since 1874.
- National Agricultural Library (U.S Department of Agriculture)
- Oregon State University
- University of California Biosience and Natural Resources Library
- University of Minnesota Forestry Library
- University of Washington Natural Sciences Library