Collection Development Policy
Chemistry

PROGRAMS AND CLIENTELE SUPPORTED:

Teaching and research through the doctoral level are supported in the following areas: analytical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and physical chemistry/ chemical physics. While interest in these areas is centered in the Department of Chemistry, faculty and students in related departments, e.g. Biological Science, Chemical Engineering, and the Radiation Laboratory also have special interest in one or more of the areas.

SUBJECT LIAISION:

Thurston Miller
231 Nieuwland Science
Chemistry/Physics Library
(574) 631-4549
miller.115@nd.edu

 

GENERAL COLLECTION GUIDELINES:

Languages:  The primary language of collection is English, but materials in other languages are acquired selectively. Translations into English are preferred whenever possible.

Chronological:  Emphasis is on the current developments. For materials on the history of chemistry, see the History of Science policy.

Geographical:  Not applicable.

Treatment of subject:  Emphasis is on research materials. Textbooks are acquired selectively for undergraduate and graduate studies. Popular treatments are acquired for Hesburgh Library. biography and history of chemistry are acquired selectively to support teaching needs.

Types of Material:  Encyclopedias, dictionaries, treatises, compendia, spectral, and data collections are acquired. Conference proceedings are generally not acquired.

 

COORDINATION INFORMATION:

Applied aspects of geochemistry and chemical engineering are collected in the Engineering Library. Biochemistry, nutrition, histochemistry, and phytochemistry are collected cooperatively with Life Sciences Library. Physical chemistry, radiation chemistry and photochemistry are collected more extensively in the Radiation Chemistry Library.

 

COLLECTING LEVELS:

Subject	LC Class	Collecting Level
General Chemistry
History. Biographies	QD 11-22	3
Alchemy	QD 23-26	2
Textbooks	QD 28-37	2
Study & Teaching	QD 40-49	2
Laboratories	QD 51-64	2
Handbooks, Tables, & Formulas	QD 65	4
Analytical Chemistry
Reagents	QD 77	3
Methods of Analysis	QD 79	3
Qualitative Analysis. Spectrum Analysis	QD 81-98	4
Quantitative Analysis	QD 101-117	3
Gas Analysis	QD 121	3
Technical Analysis	QD 130-139	3
Water Analysis	QD 142	3
Inorganic Chemistry
Inorganic Synthesis	QD 156	4
Nonmetals	QD 161-169	4
Metals	QD 171-172	4
Salts	QD 189-193	4
Cyclic Polymers	QD 197	3
Organic Chemistry
Organic Synthesis	QD 262	4
Organic analysis	QD 271-272	4
Electrochemistry of Organic Compounds	QD 273	3
Organic Photochemistry	QD 275	3
Alphatic compounds	QD 300-315	3
Carbohydrates	QD 320-327	4
Aromatic Compounds	QD 330-341	2
Antibiotics	QD 375-377	4
Polymers. Macromolecules	QD 380-388	3
Condensed Benzene Rings	QD 390-395	2
Heterocyclic Chemistry	QD 399-406	3
Organometallic Chemistry	QD 410-412	4
Biological Chemistry
Terpenes & Camphors	QD 416	3
Gums & Resins	QD 419	3
Alkaloids	QD 421	3
Steroids	QD 426	3
Proteins & Peptides	QD 431	4
Nucleic Acids	QD 433-436	4
Physical & Theoretical Chemistry
Atomic & Molecular Theory	QD 461	2
Quantum Chemistry	QD 462	4
Stereochemistry	QD 481	3
Conditions & Laws of Chemical Reactions	QD 501-505	4
Surface Chemistry	QD 506-508	3
Thermochemistry	QD 510-536	3
Theory of Solutions	QD 540-549	2
Electrochemistry	QD 551-572	3
Plasma Chemistry	QD 581	2
Magnetochemistry	QD 591	3
Radiochemistry. Nuclear Chemistry	QD 601-608	3
Radiation Chemistry	QD 625-655	3
Photochemistry	QD 701-731	4
Crystallography
Geometrical & Mathematical Crystallography	QD 911-915	4
Crystal Structure & Growth	QD 921-932	4
Physical Properties of Crystals	QD 931-947	4
Chemical Crystallography	QD 951	4
Biochemistry
Blood Chemistry	QP 91-99	4
Technique	QP 519	3
Proteins, Amino Acids, etc.	QP 551-563	4
Enzymes	QP 601-619	4
Nucleic Acids	QP 620-625	4
Carbohydrates	QP 701-702	4

 

 

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