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. Political science will restrict its purchase of materials dealing with periods before 1970, and History will limit its purchases of materials concerning subjects after 1970. No restrictions, but the collection is weighted toward America and Europe. Attempts have been made to strengthen the collection with more material from the Soviet Union, East Asia and the Middle East.
Emphasis is on scholarly treatment rather than popularization, textbooks, and children's literature.
The Undergraduate Library normally collects more popular treatments and the Education and Social Sciences Library collects children's literature for its School Collection. An effort is made to cover all fields of political science, but major emphasis will remain on American and Western European subjects. Materials from other areas will be collected, but care is taken not to intrude upon the domains of area studies, i.e., Asian, Latin American, and Slavic and East European areas. Popular political biographies are the responsibility of the Undergraduate Library. A majority of the methodology works will be collected by the Mathematics Library, unless the methods deal exclusively with political science issues.