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Notes ISBN Country or area Publisher
99921-58-10-7 Qatar NCCAH, Doha
9971-5-0210-0 Singapore World Scientific
960-425-059-0 Greece Sigma Publications
80-902734-1-6 Czech Republic; Slovakia Taita Publishers
85-359-0277-5 Brazil Companhia das Letras
1-84356-028-3 English-speaking area Simon Wallenberg Press
0-684-84328-5 English-speaking area Scribner
0-8044-2957-X English-speaking area Frederick Ungar
0-85131-041-9 English-speaking area J. A. Allen & Co.
0-943396-04-2 English-speaking area Willmann-Bell
0-9752298-0-X English-speaking area KT Publishing
6.4 Collection Number
(i) Collection Number : 113
Collection Name : National Agricultural Library (NAL) Records
Earliest Date : 1867
Latest Date : 2002
Bulk Dates : 1867-1980
Linear Feet : 81
(a) Collection Description: The National Agricultural Library (NAL) Records include corre-
spondence, reports, regulations, agreements, budget hearings, clippings, articles, newslet-
ters, manuals, and photographs on library-related activities. Of particular note are the records
from 1907-1940 when Claribel R. Barnett was not only head librarian for the departmental
library but also was quite active in the library-related organizations. The archival material
includes papers relating to directors of the library such as Ralph Robert Shaw, 1940-1954,
Foster E. Mohrhardt, 1954-1968, and John Sherrod, 1968-1973.
(b) Historical or Biographical Sketch: In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed an act that
established the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). One year later, through a donation
of a collection of over 1,000 volumes of agriculture-related materials from the Agricultural
Division of the U.S. Patent Office, the library mandated by the act establishing the USDA
came to life. The purpose of the library was to gather agricultural information from a wide
array of sources and provide it to the people of the United States. In the century that
followed, the library was located in various locations in the USDA’s buildings in Washing-
ton, D.C. Also during this time, the library had a formidable succession of librarians who
were leaders in furthering the professionalism of librarianship. In 1962 Secretary of Agri-
culture Orville J. Freeman designated the USDA’s library the National Agricultural
Library (NAL). This move put the library on par with other national libraries, and also
affirmed its distinction as the world’s foremost institute of agricultural information. In
1960 plans were drawn up to create a new dedicated facility for the library. In 1969 the
USDA’s information institution was successfully moved from the USDA South Building to
what is now the Abraham Lincoln Building, USDA, in Beltsville, Maryland. Throughout the
1960s and 1970s NAL brought forth many agriculture-related information resources and
centers. Most notable of these resources are the Dictionary Catalog of the National Agricul-
tural Library, 1862-1965; the National Agricultural Library Catalog, 1966-1970; CAIN
(CAtaloging and INdexing) and CAIN-ON-LINE (later renamed AGRICOLA); and the Food
and Nutrition Information Center.
(ii) Collection Number : 115
Collection Name : National Association of County Agricultural Agents (NACAA) Records
Earliest Date : 1921
Latest Date : 1992
Linear Feet : 8.75
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