In general, Reference does not collect popular and how-to guides and does not collect genealogy except for general guides to sources. The are no chronological limitations for the collection Retention policies vary from title to title and may be found in the online records. Other items are selected for the collection but marked to weed in three to five years. A. Almanacs and Yearbooks - Reference collects current editions of major publications for the United States and foreign countries. C. Atlases and Geographical Sources - Reference collects selected historical and thematic atlases and maintains a working collection of selected world, national, regional, and state atlases.
Reference selects general and some historical gazetteers.
There is some emphasis given to collecting information on Los Angeles, California, and the western United States. The pamphlet collection contains current maps of selected cities, countries, and regions of the world. D. Bibliographies - General bibliographies with broad topics are collected in reference. Bibliographies with narrow subject scope such as those devoted to a single author or a single work are kept in the URL stacks. Exceptions are that reference does collect major bibliographies for Shakespeare and the Bible.