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Library Classification and Cataloguing Theory


                     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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