HORTICULTURE RESOURCES (9/08)
LOUDOUN CAMPUS LIBRARY 

 PERIODICALS
American Gardener 1953- Film
American Nurseryman 1960- Film
Avant Gardener (Oct. issue index) 5 years
BBC Gardener World  5 years

Bioscience 1980- Fiche
Brooklyn Botanic Garden (catalogued)
Fine Gardening 5 years
Florists Review 5 years
Fruit Varieties Journal (Jan issue index) 5 years
Garden Design 5 years
GM Pro (formerly Greenhouse Manager) 5 years
Grounds Maintenance 5 years
Grower Talks (May issue index) 5 years
Herb Companion 5 years
Horticulture 1950- Film
Hortscience (Dec issue index) 10 years
IPM Practitioner 5 years
Interiorscape 5 years
Jobs in Horticulture  2001 -
Landscape Architecture 5 years
Landscape Management 5 years
Public Garden 2001 -

National Gardening 5 years
Nursery Retailer 5 years
Organic Gardening 1965- Fiche
Turf  South  - 5 years
Back issues circulate for one week and may be renewed.

MAGAZINES   (require log-in for home use)
Garden Index - abstracts and indexing, limited full text
Magazines Full-text, general interest titles InfoTrac or ProQuest Direct
Cambridge Scientific -- select Natural Science, reset Date range if necessary
 JSTOR - full text historic information from scholarly journals
Plant Management Network

 

BOOKS  (SB Horticulture)
Select Library Catalog  and follow on-screen directions to search using keyword, author, title, or subject.
Lists books on all 5 NVCC Campuses.
NVCC books circulate for 3 weeks and  intercampus loan is available.

World Catalog - catalog for libraries around the world
Contact the Reference Librarian if our library does not own the title you are looking for. Interlibrary loan is an option if the title is NOT available locally.
 
 

Useful Library of Congress Subject Headings
Arboriculture Greenhouses
Bulbs Horticulture as a profession
Entomology Insects, injurious & beneficial
Fruit Culture Landscape architecture
  Landscape design
Gardens-history Landscape gardening
Grafting Plant propagation
   
Greenhouse Management Turfgrass Science
 

General Horticulture Sites
American Horticultural Society
American Society for Horticultural Science
Boerner Botanical Gardens
Burpee.com
Cornell University
Garden Web
Griffin Greenhouse/Nursery
Longwood Gardens
Missouri Botanical Gardens
National Gardening Association
Ohio State U.
Purdue University
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew  
Texas A & M    
U. Delaware
Virginia Tech Programs Agriculture & Life Sciences 

Garden History 
Frederick Law Olmsted 
Garden Design in the British Isles History  
History & Historic Gardens
JGarden
Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants  

Integrated Pest Management Sites
1. Virginia Tech
2. National IPM home page - North Carolina
3. Colorado State U.
4. Wisconsin Integrated Pest Management Program 
5. Iowa State U

Search Engines
Librarians' Index to the Internet  

About.com 
Alta Vista
Google
 
Vivisimo 

Yahoo
 
 
 

Additional Libraries
American Horticulture Society Library  - http://www.ashs.org
7931 E. Boulevard Dr.
768-5700
Hours: 9 - noon, Thursdays
Books and journals. In-library use only Xerox .15 cents per page. Please bring your own change.
Directions: 4 miles south of Alexandria on George Washington Parkway, go under stone bridge, take 1st left after bridge, one block and you will see sign.
 

National Agricultural Library -  http://www.nal.usda.gov
Rt. 1, Beltsville, MD (25 - A North)
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday
301-504-5479
 Books and journals. In-library use only. Xerox .10 cents per page. Please bring your own change.
Go to Information Services Desk for assistance.
Directions: From Beltway take Exit 25A North toward Beltsville & Laurel and you will see sign on the right.

Brookside Botanical Gardens   http://www.mc-mncppc.org/parks/brookside/
1500 Glenallen Ave.
Wheaton, MD  20902
Gen Info: 301-949-8230/ Librarian: Barbara Oxman 301-962-1410
Hours: Noon to 5 pm Monday - Friday only
Books and catalogs
Call for more information
Directions: from 495 Beltway take Exit 31A North to Georgia Ave; Go 3 miles north on Georgia Avenue and turn right onto Randolph Rd; turn right at second stoplight onto Glenellen Avenue. BBG is 3/4 of a mile on the right.
 

National Arboretum  http://www.ars-grin.gov/na/index.html
3501 New York Ave. NE
Washington, DC
202-245-2725
Call for more information
Directions: Constitution Ave. east past Capital Bldg.; bear left onto Maryland Ave. and continue for 1 mile; left onto Bladensburg Rd for 1 mile; right on R Street; go 300 years to gates

 

NVCC| |Loudoun Campus| |Loudoun Campus Library|
Revised Thursday, August 28, 2008
Comments to Jennifer Reynolds