Resources in Our Collection

Resources in Our Collection
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About LCC

Our collection uses the Library of Congress Classification (LCC). LCC organizes the collection by subjects. This makes it easy to browse for books with similar topics.

On the spines of our books, you will see a LCC call number.

Example:

Consider call numbers as an item’s address. Each letter and number correlates with a subject.

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Collection Overview:

Topics in this range include a limited selection of general encyclopedic works, psychology, and history titles. Additionally, a more substantial collection of recreation, geography, environmental science, and anthropology titles are included in this range

More than half of our social sciences collection focuses on land use, industries, and labor, with particular interests in agricultural economics and agricultural industries. Additionally, Pendergrass maintains holdings in economic history and animal rights. Other topics in this range include economic theory, commerce, marketing, finance, and social history.

Classes J through N, while being a relatively small size, our collection’s focus is on the topics of Federal Law, theories of education, and architecture.

Housed mostly in our leisure reading collection, our selections of fiction consist primarily of American and English Literature, with minor influences of Germanic and Dutch literature.

This section contains extensive materials in the sciences relevant for both agriculture and veterinary medicine. These works focus on topics including Zoology for insects, fish, birds, and mammals, animal behavior, animal physiology, microbiology, botany, and chemistry. We also maintain works in climatology, meteorology, conservation, genetics, ecology, and biology.

This range contains materials related to medicine. Our collection’s largest focus in this range is on internal medicine, with topics including neoplasms, the circulatory system, neurology, diagnosis, urology, infections, and parasitic diseases. Other significant topics in this range include public aspects of medicine, toxicology, surgery, pathology, ophthalmology, pharmacology, and physical therapy.

S is the class for agriculture and is the largest letter range of our collection at Pendergrass. Works in this range without a specific subclass encompass topics of soil science, history, special aspects of agriculture, and other documents.

The SB subclass encompasses topics of plant culture, with our collection focusing on a wide range of subjects including classes of plants, field crops, vegetables, fruit culture, and individual plant cultures. We also have strong collections in plant propagation, gardening, and landscape architecture. Additionally, our holdings for pests and diseases is significant, with topics including plant pathology, pests for individual types of plants, economic entomology, and pesticides.

Over half of our forestry holdings are comprised of documents from specific countries or regions, with the remaining works focused on sylviculture, conservation and protection, exploitation and utilization, history and forest conditions, and special aspects of forestry.

Pendergrass houses a large collection of materials in the SF range for animal culture. Significant collections include animal nutrition as well as the care and management of a range of animals including cattle, horses, pets, cats, dogs, birds, and poultry.
Many veterinary resources are contained in this range, with the most numerous collections being on the topics of diseases of special classes of animals and general veterinary medicine. More specific topics include veterinary medicine of special organs, veterinary pathology, surgery, pharmacology, and special preclinical sciences such as genetics, anatomy, and physiology. View a complete breakdown of the different subjects below.

SUBCLASS SF 277-360 – HORSE CARE
SUBCLASS SF 411-473 – PET CARE
SUBCLASS SF 421-440 – DOG CARE
SUBCLASS SF 441-450 – CAT CARE
SUBCLASS SF 456-458 – AQUARIUM AND FISH CARE
SUBCLASS SF 451-456 – OTHER PETS
SUBCLASS SF 459 – REPTILE AND AMPHIBIAN CARE
SUBCLASS SF 460-473 – BIRD CARE

The SH range is comprised of resources about aquaculture and fisheries. Our collection’s greatest focuses in this range include topics about fishery management and policy, fishery programs from specific countries, fish culture, diseases and adverse factors, and angling.

About half of our hunting sports collection focuses on wildlife management, game protection, and annual reports from gaming commissions, but we also maintain a small collection of animal-specific hunting and general information

This range includes general and environmental technology along with civil, hydraulic, ocean, and sanitary engineering. Within these disciplines, our collection curates resources ranging from materials of construction and mechanics of materials to engineering centralized around water including irrigation engineering, drainage, water pollution, and industrial or domestic water supplies.

This range includes resources about building construction, road pavements, electronics, and machinery along with highway, railroad, bridge, mechanical, electrical, and mining engineering. Although selections in this range are limited, Pendergrass maintains some holdings on building construction, heating and ventilation, power plants and electricity transmission, motor vehicles, and metallurgy.

TP is the subclass for chemical technology, with our primary focus in this range being food processing and manufacture. We also maintain selections in fermentation industries and beverages, biotechnology, and fuel.

This range includes resources about manufactures, handicrafts, arts, and crafts, and photography. Pendergrass’s collection here has significant focuses on animal products, wood technology and products, paper manufacturing, and textile industries, while a small selection of applied photography and handicrafts are available.

Topics include the profession and study of the economics and management of the home and community, consumer education, cooking, nutrition, and food preservation. Subclass TX 642-840 includes our cookery collection with cookbooks for specific ingredients, cooking methods, ethnic and regional cuisine, and national foods.

Pendergrass only keeps a handful of books within the military and naval classes.

Most of Pendergrass’s holdings in the Z class are subject bibliographies, which can be helpful research tools in a wide variety of subjects

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