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Standards 1
Collection Policy Statement Index
I. General
Standards are authoritative statements issues by international, national, and professional bodies relative to the various dimensions and other physical and chemical attributes of objects and processes as well as to the approved definitions of the terminology designating these objects and processes. As a rule, the Library of Congress will not add to its classified collections series of individual standards, either domestic or foreign. However, collected sets of domestic standards or foreign standards from leading industrial nations may be acquired for the classified collections selectively at the option of recommending officers. (An example of the former is the annual set of standards of the American Society for Testing Materials; an example of the latter is the Handbook series of the International Organization for Standardization.)
II. Policy
Standards and standard sets both foreign and domestic, applicable or of interest to the scientific, industrial, business, and Government communities, or having a certain uniqueness, will be collected uncataloged and will be maintained by the Technical Reports Section of the Science and Technology Division. These standards include but are not limited to:
- American national standards issued by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
- domestic independent standards-producing organizations in the ANSI Federation;
- United States Federal Government Military standards.
International standards and especially foreign national standards are acquired selectively. Published draft standards are not actively solicited but will be reviewed for inclusion into the collections if forwarded by issuing organizations; they will be discarded when approved standards are received. Unpublished draft standards are not collected.
For information on the Library's collections, see http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/trs/trsover.html
III. Special considerations
Nothing in the above statement shall be construed to prevent the acquisition and addition to the classified collections of the Library of monographs and serials concerned with:
- the technical problems of metrology and standardization;
- annual reports and other administrative issuances of international, national, and professional organizations concerned with promulgated standards;
- bibliographies and other reference tools on standards; or
- individual standards falling within the Library's Scope e.g.: glossaries or library-related standards such as ANSI Z39.
For related topics, see also Collections Policy Statement for:
Statistics
Technical Reports, Working Papers and Reports
Notes:
(1) Formerly Acquisitions Policy Statement No. 63
November 1990