Related materials are also held in the Agriculture, Applied Life Studies, Biology, Chemistry, Documents, Engineering, Health Sciences, Home Economics, Law, Natural History Survey, and Undergraduate Libraries. English is the dominant language of the collection. Materials in Western Europe languages are also collected in varying degrees of intensity. Materials in Slavic and Eastern European languages and materials in Asian and Middle Eastern languages are collected only in cooperation with the Slavic and Eastern European Library and the Asian Library, respectively. English translations, if they are available, are usually preferred to the original foreign language work.
Emphasis is on scholarly treatment rather than popularization, textbooks, and children's literature.
Textbooks are collected selectively. The Undergraduate Library normally collects more popular treatments and the Education and Social Sciences Library collects children's literature for its School Collection. Historical and biographical works are collected selectively. Materials from interdisciplinary areas are collected selectively as they pertain to veterinary medicine. Clinical medicine and pharmacology are collected primarily as related to animals but also related to humans.