Brown University Library Collections - Collection Growth & Use Reports
Age of the Collection Reports, December 31, 2000: SCIENCES LIBRARY
This report is a count of bibliographic records ("titles"), and not of volumes. The call number in the bibliographic record or first attached item is used. All of these reports were generated as of January 1, 2001 (give or take two days).
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Subj Cat |
Description | TOTAL | 2000-09 | 1990-99 | 1980-89 | 1970-79 | 1960-69 |
| -1 | No Call # | 2,403 | 4 | 384 | 420 | 343 | 297 |
| 0 | Not in table | 5 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1- Brown University | 4,299 | - | 650 | 709 | 952 | 888 |
| 2 | 2- Rhode Island | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 3 | 3- Providence | - | |||||
| 4 | 4- Textbooks | - | |||||
| 5 | Other Numeric | - | |||||
| 6 | A General | 367 | - | 9 | 12 | 14 | 25 |
| 7 | B-BE,BG-BK Philosophy | 604 | 1 | 33 | 59 | 84 | 133 |
| 8 | BF Psychology | 7,636 | 78 | 1,421 | 1,702 | 1,105 | 1,378 |
| 9 | BL,BZ Religion | 38 | - | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 10 | BM Judaism | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 11 | BN-BP Islam | 6 | - | 2 | 2 | - | 2 |
| 12 | BQ Buddhism | - | |||||
| 13 | BR Christianity | 29 | - | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 |
| 14 | BS Bible | 13 | - | 2 | 6 | 1 | - |
| 15 | C-CB History | 24 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| 16 | CC Archaeology | 18 | - | 3 | 6 | 7 | 1 |
| 17 | CD-CS Historical Aids | 39 | - | - | - | - | 8 |
| 18 | D-DA History, Great Britain | 70 | - | 2 | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| 19 | DB,DD History, Central Europe | 90 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| 20 | DC History, France | 9 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 21 | DE-DG399 History, Greece & Rome | 3 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 22 | DG400+ History, Italy | - | |||||
| 23 | DH-DJ History, Low Countries | - | |||||
| 24 | DK History, E.Eur. & Russia | 6 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 25 | DL History, Scandinavia | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 26 | DM-DP History, Spain | - | |||||
| 27 | DQ History, Switzerland | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 28 | DR History, Balkans | - | |||||
| 29 | DS1-329 History, Near East | 10 | - | 2 | 2 | - | 1 |
| 30 | DS330-449 History, South Asia | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 31 | DS500-9999 History, East Asia | 14 | - | - | 1 | 4 | - |
| 32 | DT1-38,94+ History, Africa | 10 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - |
| 33 | DT39-93 History, Ancient Egypt | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 34 | DU-DZ History, Oceanea,Gypsies | 7 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 35 | E-F1000 History, U.S. | 136 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 26 | 11 |
| 36 | F1001-1200 History, Canada | 14 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 |
| 37 | F1201-9999 History, Latin America | 132 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 24 |
| 38 | FA-GB Geography | 5,955 | 12 | 450 | 952 | 749 | 478 |
| 39 | GC Oceanography | 795 | 3 | 159 | 231 | 176 | 118 |
| 40 | GD-GM Ecology | 139 | - | 69 | 30 | 17 | 5 |
| 41 | GN-GT Anthropology | 417 | - | 34 | 65 | 63 | 82 |
| 42 | GU-GZ Recreation & Dance | 76 | - | 5 | 20 | 7 | 11 |
| 43 | H-HL Economics | 1,693 | 3 | 185 | 278 | 256 | 245 |
| 44 | HM,HR-HZ Sociology | 1,008 | 3 | 94 | 220 | 209 | 284 |
| 45 | HN-HP Social History | 22 | - | 2 | 3 | 10 | 7 |
| 46 | HQ Family,Gender,Sexuality | 640 | - | 21 | 122 | 137 | 173 |
| 47 | J-JZ Politics | 38 | - | 4 | 7 | 11 | 5 |
| 48 | K-KZ Law | 240 | - | 44 | 130 | 50 | 3 |
| 49 | L-LZ Education | 800 | 1 | 24 | 54 | 131 | 312 |
| 50 | M Music (scores) | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 51 | ML Music | 4 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 |
| 52 | MT Music Technique | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 53 | N,NB-NE,NL+Art | 174 | - | 5 | 12 | 9 | 20 |
| 54 | NA Architecture | 124 | - | 3 | 7 | 5 | 21 |
| 55 | NF-NK Decorative Arts | 12 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 56 | P,PB Language & Linguistics | 318 | 2 | 57 | 57 | 39 | 37 |
| 57 | PA Classics | 35 | - | 1 | - | - | 5 |
| 58 | PC1-999 Romance Lang & Lit | - | |||||
| 59 | PC,PQ4000+ Italian Lang & Lit | 5 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| 60 | PC,PQ2000+ French Lang & Lit | 9 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 |
| 61 | PC,PQ6000+ Spanish Lang & Lit | 5 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 62 | PC,PQ5000+ Portuguese Lang & Lit | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 63 | PD,PF,PT Germanic Lang & Lit | 23 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 64 | PE English Language | 67 | - | 6 | 15 | 16 | 10 |
| 65 | PG Slavic Lang & Lit | 26 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 66 | PH Finno-Ugrian Lang & Lit | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 67 | PJ1-2299 Egyptian Lang & Lit | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 68 | PJ2300+ Semitic Lang & Lit | - | |||||
| 69 | PJ4500+ Hebrew Lang & Lit | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 70 | PJ5200+ Aramaic & Syraic L & L | - | |||||
| 71 | PJ6000+ Arabic & Ethiopian L & L | - | |||||
| 72 | PK Indo-Iranian Lang & Lit | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 73 | PL1+,3300+ Asian & Oceanic L & L | - | |||||
| 74 | PL500+ Japanese Lang & Lit | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 75 | PL900+ Korean Lang & Lit | - | |||||
| 76 | PL1000+ Chinese Lang & Lit | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 77 | PL8000+ African Lang & Lit | - | |||||
| 78 | PM Other Languages | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 79 | PN1+,3300+ Literature | 42 | - | 4 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 80 | PN1501+ Perf.Arts, Dance, Film | 13 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 |
| 81 | PR1+ English Lit (general) | 4 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 82 | PR1400+ Old English Lit | - | |||||
| 83 | PR1800+ Medieval English Lit | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 84 | PR2200+ Renaissance Engl. Lit | 9 | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| 85 | PR3200+ Modern English Lit | 12 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| 86 | PS1+ American Lit (general) | 4 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - |
| 87 | PS1000+ American Lit, 19th cent. | 8 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| 88 | PS3500+ American Lit, 20th cent. | 9 | - | - | - | 1 | 3 |
| 89 | PS3550+ American Lit, contemp. | 6 | - | - | 4 | 1 | - |
| 90 | PZ Other Literature | - | |||||
| 91 | Q1-9999 General Science | 5,330 | 63 | 844 | 883 | 473 | 637 |
| 92 | QA1-69,80+ Mathematics | 38,556 | 451 | 6,055 | 6,065 | 4,328 | 5,116 |
| 93 | QA70-79 Computers | 4,965 | 190 | 2,086 | 1,637 | 387 | 276 |
| 94 | QB Astronomy | 4,297 | 41 | 768 | 850 | 584 | 605 |
| 95 | QC Physics | 16,226 | 186 | 3,926 | 3,530 | 1,975 | 2,515 |
| 96 | QD Chemistry | 8,606 | 33 | 1,116 | 1,711 | 1,311 | 1,645 |
| 97 | QE Geology | 6,654 | 24 | 785 | 1,555 | 1,015 | 1,003 |
| 98 | QF-QH Natural History | 7,956 | 88 | 1,321 | 1,884 | 1,275 | 1,390 |
| 99 | QK Botany | 4,245 | 10 | 356 | 685 | 533 | 728 |
| 100 | QL Zoology | 5,934 | 59 | 750 | 1,149 | 912 | 1,046 |
| 101 | QM Human Anatomy | 1,139 | 6 | 115 | 193 | 160 | 298 |
| 102 | QN-QZ Physiology, Microbiology | - | |||||
| 103 | QQ-QR Microbiology | 12,149 | 124 | 2,227 | 3,525 | 2,239 | 1,996 |
| 104 | R1-9999 Medicine | 3,600 | 10 | 547 | 965 | 674 | 551 |
| 105 | (undefined) | - | |||||
| 106 | RA-RB Public Health, Pathology | 5,731 | 20 | 1,278 | 1,588 | 1,091 | 775 |
| 107 | RC Internal Medicine | 13,152 | 27 | 1,795 | 4,242 | 2,862 | 2,531 |
| 108 | RD Surgery | 2,100 | 2 | 174 | 652 | 527 | 506 |
| 109 | RE-RL Medical Specialities | 4,251 | 7 | 605 | 1,371 | 932 | 824 |
| 110 | RM-RS Therapeutics,Pharmacol. | 2,042 | 1 | 184 | 554 | 471 | 389 |
| 111 | RT Nursing | 189 | - | 7 | 22 | 25 | 91 |
| 112 | RU-RZ Other Medicine | 43 | - | 5 | 11 | 6 | 12 |
| 113 | S-SZ Agriculture | 2,513 | 5 | 348 | 564 | 358 | 374 |
| 114 | T-TJ,TL Technology & Engineering | 15,332 | 148 | 2,986 | 3,482 | 1,827 | 2,134 |
| 115 | TK Electrical Engineering | 5,323 | 85 | 1,209 | 1,325 | 525 | 720 |
| 116 | TM-TN Mining, Metallurgy | 2,143 | 3 | 208 | 429 | 260 | 414 |
| 117 | TP Chemical Engineering | 2,583 | 23 | 455 | 616 | 245 | 293 |
| 118 | TQ-TR Photography | 292 | - | 10 | 22 | 30 | 56 |
| 119 | TS Manufacturing | 867 | 8 | 58 | 217 | 75 | 83 |
| 120 | TT Arts & Crafts | 28 | - | - | - | 3 | 6 |
| 121 | TU-TZ Home Economics | 390 | 1 | 53 | 126 | 88 | 51 |
| 122 | U-V Military & Naval Sci. | 718 | - | 47 | 66 | 50 | 87 |
| 123 | Z1-659 Writing & Books | 52 | - | 16 | 21 | 5 | 3 |
| 124 | Z660-1000 Libraries | 338 | - | 48 | 81 | 88 | 75 |
| 125 | Z1001+ Bibliography | 1,610 | 2 | 58 | 274 | 272 | 373 |
| 126 | X1 Reserves Folder | - | |||||
| 127 | X9 Reserves Prof Copy | - | |||||
| TOTAL | 208,097 | 1,727 | 34,142 | 45,477 | 30,061 | 32,273 |
| Subj Cat |
Description | 1950-59 | 1940-49 | 1930-39 | 1920-29 | 1910-19 | <1909 | No Date |
| -1 | No Call # | 120 | 110 | 105 | 110 | 37 | 105 | 368 |
| 0 | Not in table | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1- Brown University | 321 | 342 | 361 | 60 | 11 | 5 | - |
| 2 | 2- Rhode Island | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 3 | 3- Providence | |||||||
| 4 | 4- Textbooks | |||||||
| 5 | Other Numeric | |||||||
| 6 | A General | 25 | 22 | 21 | 30 | 13 | 59 | 137 |
| 7 | B-BE,BG-BK Philosophy | 84 | 43 | 38 | 36 | 19 | 73 | 1 |
| 8 | BF Psychology | 462 | 280 | 436 | 356 | 101 | 141 | 176 |
| 9 | BL,BZ Religion | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | BM Judaism | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 11 | BN-BP Islam | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 12 | BQ Buddhism | |||||||
| 13 | BR Christianity | 1 | - | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - |
| 14 | BS Bible | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 15 | C-CB History | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
| 16 | CC Archaeology | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 17 | CD-CS Historical Aids | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
| 18 | D-DA History, Great Britain | 9 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 19 | DB,DD History, Central Europe | - | 1 | 12 | 51 | 15 | 9 | - |
| 20 | DC History, France | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 21 | DE-DG399 History, Greece & Rome | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| 22 | DG400+ History, Italy | |||||||
| 23 | DH-DJ History, Low Countries | |||||||
| 24 | DK History, E.Eur. & Russia | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 25 | DL History, Scandinavia | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 26 | DM-DP History, Spain | |||||||
| 27 | DQ History, Switzerland | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 28 | DR History, Balkans | |||||||
| 29 | DS1-329 History, Near East | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 |
| 30 | DS330-449 History, South Asia | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 31 | DS500-9999 History, East Asia | 1 | 2 | - | 4 | - | 2 | - |
| 32 | DT1-38,94+ History, Africa | - | - | 5 | - | - | 1 | - |
| 33 | DT39-93 History, Ancient Egypt | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 34 | DU-DZ History, Oceanea,Gypsies | 1 | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 35 | E-F1000 History, U.S. | 8 | 24 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 10 |
| 36 | F1001-1200 History, Canada | - | 8 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - |
| 37 | F1201-9999 History, Latin America | 56 | 25 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 4 |
| 38 | FA-GB Geography | 171 | 88 | 38 | 51 | 201 | 2,664 | 101 |
| 39 | GC Oceanography | 40 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 38 |
| 40 | GD-GM Ecology | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 41 | GN-GT Anthropology | 27 | 36 | 37 | 35 | 14 | 18 | 6 |
| 42 | GU-GZ Recreation & Dance | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 5 |
| 43 | H-HL Economics | 145 | 119 | 139 | 131 | 56 | 57 | 79 |
| 44 | HM,HR-HZ Sociology | 54 | 40 | 40 | 26 | 12 | 8 | 18 |
| 45 | HN-HP Social History | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 46 | HQ Family,Gender,Sexuality | 48 | 28 | 49 | 24 | 9 | 8 | 21 |
| 47 | J-JZ Politics | - | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 |
| 48 | K-KZ Law | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 10 |
| 49 | L-LZ Education | 65 | 43 | 71 | 45 | 19 | 16 | 19 |
| 50 | M Music (scores) | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 51 | ML Music | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 52 | MT Music Technique | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 53 | N,NB-NE,NL+Art | 11 | 9 | 10 | 47 | 8 | 32 | 11 |
| 54 | NA Architecture | 13 | 24 | 13 | 24 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| 55 | NF-NK Decorative Arts | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 |
| 56 | P,PB Language & Linguistics | 7 | 2 | 26 | 46 | 15 | 30 | - |
| 57 | PA Classics | - | - | 3 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 1 |
| 58 | PC1-999 Romance Lang & Lit | |||||||
| 59 | PC,PQ4000+ Italian Lang & Lit | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - |
| 60 | PC,PQ2000+ French Lang & Lit | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| 61 | PC,PQ6000+ Spanish Lang & Lit | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 62 | PC,PQ5000+ Portuguese Lang & Lit | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 63 | PD,PF,PT Germanic Lang & Lit | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | - | 5 | - |
| 64 | PE English Language | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 65 | PG Slavic Lang & Lit | 7 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| 66 | PH Finno-Ugrian Lang & Lit | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| 67 | PJ1-2299 Egyptian Lang & Lit | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 68 | PJ2300+ Semitic Lang & Lit | |||||||
| 69 | PJ4500+ Hebrew Lang & Lit | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 70 | PJ5200+ Aramaic & Syraic L & L | |||||||
| 71 | PJ6000+ Arabic & Ethiopian L & L | |||||||
| 72 | PK Indo-Iranian Lang & Lit | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 73 | PL1+,3300+ Asian & Oceanic L & L | |||||||
| 74 | PL500+ Japanese Lang & Lit | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 75 | PL900+ Korean Lang & Lit | |||||||
| 76 | PL1000+ Chinese Lang & Lit | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 77 | PL8000+ African Lang & Lit | |||||||
| 78 | PM Other Languages | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - |
| 79 | PN1+,3300+ Literature | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 80 | PN1501+ Perf.Arts, Dance, Film | 1 | - | 9 | - | - | - | - |
| 81 | PR1+ English Lit (general) | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - |
| 82 | PR1400+ Old English Lit | |||||||
| 83 | PR1800+ Medieval English Lit | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - |
| 84 | PR2200+ Renaissance Engl. Lit | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | - |
| 85 | PR3200+ Modern English Lit | - | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - |
| 86 | PS1+ American Lit (general) | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 87 | PS1000+ American Lit, 19th cent. | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | - |
| 88 | PS3500+ American Lit, 20th cent. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 89 | PS3550+ American Lit, contemp. | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 90 | PZ Other Literature | |||||||
| 91 | Q1-9999 General Science | 438 | 377 | 762 | 131 | 73 | 208 | 441 |
| 92 | QA1-69,80+ Mathematics | 2,761 | 2,071 | 2,144 | 1,792 | 1,573 | 5,374 | 826 |
| 93 | QA70-79 Computers | 121 | 56 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 18 | 155 |
| 94 | QB Astronomy | 336 | 199 | 175 | 155 | 91 | 358 | 135 |
| 95 | QC Physics | 1,068 | 714 | 735 | 571 | 125 | 371 | 510 |
| 96 | QD Chemistry | 663 | 502 | 450 | 365 | 191 | 289 | 330 |
| 97 | QE Geology | 483 | 338 | 308 | 207 | 117 | 473 | 346 |
| 98 | QF-QH Natural History | 528 | 267 | 264 | 245 | 115 | 254 | 325 |
| 99 | QK Botany | 374 | 238 | 206 | 184 | 136 | 640 | 155 |
| 100 | QL Zoology | 360 | 224 | 284 | 242 | 137 | 595 | 176 |
| 101 | QM Human Anatomy | 94 | 62 | 58 | 43 | 23 | 76 | 11 |
| 102 | QN-QZ Physiology, Microbiology | |||||||
| 103 | QQ-QR Microbiology | 601 | 303 | 279 | 217 | 76 | 218 | 344 |
| 104 | R1-9999 Medicine | 142 | 105 | 77 | 71 | 24 | 75 | 359 |
| 105 | (undefined) | |||||||
| 106 | RA-RB Public Health, Pathology | 190 | 141 | 121 | 125 | 56 | 111 | 235 |
| 107 | RC Internal Medicine | 479 | 276 | 218 | 160 | 73 | 107 | 382 |
| 108 | RD Surgery | 48 | 40 | 18 | 20 | 16 | 21 | 76 |
| 109 | RE-RL Medical Specialities | 88 | 99 | 70 | 51 | 24 | 45 | 135 |
| 110 | RM-RS Therapeutics,Pharmacol. | 94 | 68 | 56 | 48 | 16 | 57 | 104 |
| 111 | RT Nursing | 9 | 11 | 15 | 4 | - | 2 | 3 |
| 112 | RU-RZ Other Medicine | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| 113 | S-SZ Agriculture | 170 | 190 | 149 | 102 | 53 | 95 | 105 |
| 114 | T-TJ,TL Technology & Engineering | 1,058 | 1,001 | 595 | 450 | 251 | 561 | 839 |
| 115 | TK Electrical Engineering | 396 | 357 | 203 | 158 | 39 | 31 | 275 |
| 116 | TM-TN Mining, Metallurgy | 175 | 156 | 114 | 141 | 65 | 56 | 122 |
| 117 | TP Chemical Engineering | 152 | 202 | 105 | 213 | 95 | 69 | 115 |
| 118 | TQ-TR Photography | 26 | 51 | 50 | 21 | 3 | 7 | 16 |
| 119 | TS Manufacturing | 63 | 119 | 61 | 70 | 31 | 31 | 51 |
| 120 | TT Arts & Crafts | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| 121 | TU-TZ Home Economics | 11 | 20 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| 122 | U-V Military & Naval Sci. | 78 | 190 | 34 | 43 | 46 | 43 | 34 |
| 123 | Z1-659 Writing & Books | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| 124 | Z660-1000 Libraries | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 28 |
| 125 | Z1001+ Bibliography | 188 | 78 | 41 | 49 | 13 | 91 | 171 |
| 126 | X1 Reserves Folder | |||||||
| 127 | X9 Reserves Prof Copy | |||||||
| TOTAL | 12,922 | 9,791 | 9,120 | 7,054 | 4,063 | 13,632 | 7,835 |