Wildlife Research Guide

Our Library uses the Library of Congress Classification System to assign call numbers. In this system, the first two or three lines of a call number identify the subject of a book or other item.

Following are some special library catalogs that include significant collections on wildlife:

• National Agricultural Library (U.S Department of Agriculture) Detailed catalog of book, serial, and government document literature acquired since 1862 by the major agricultural research library in the United States. Many serial publications are individually cataloged.
• IUCN (World Conservation Union) Library Catalogue (World Conservation Union) Includes publications from the World Conservation Union from 1948 to the present. Also inlcudes publications of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands , TRAFFIC - the joint wildlife trade monitoring programme of IUCN and WWF, UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre , and a small selection of titles from IUCN members or other publishers. Links to fulltext are provided if available.
• National Wildlife Research Center Library Catalog Indexes all books, reports, theses, dissertations, and conference proceedings owned by the NWRC, as well as individual conference papers, abstracts, and journal articles published by NWRC authors. Emphasis is on wildlife and its relationship to agriculture and public safety, especially wildlife damage to agriculture and protection of wildlife from the adverse effects of human activities.

The following short videos will show you how to accomplish some basic research tasks.