NSS Library Holdings

The Library is the largest and most diverse collection of literature about caves, karst and caving. The collection is very broad and contains documents produced by the NSS and its internal organizations. It also includes books, periodicals, and literature published by independent publishing companies, individual authors, and other speleological organizations both in the US and other countries.

The diverse reference collection can be broken down as follows:

NSS Published:

NSS Books
NSS News (monthly publication)
The Journal of Cave and Karst Studies (scientific journal
published three times a year) and its predecessor, the Bulletin
of the National Speleological Society.
NSS Convention Materials
Grotto Newsletters
NSS Section Publications (such as the Photography section, History Section, etc)
Publications of other NSS organizations (such as Regions and Surveys)

Additional Sources:

Books (over 4,000 American and foreign publications)
Theses
Author reprints
Vertical Files (clippings from journals, magazines, newspapers, and other sources that are filed by subject, state, or foreign country)
Subject files (organized by subject, such as Blind Cave Shrimp)
State Files (organized by each state in the US)
Foreign files (organized by each foreign country)
Foreign Periodicals
Bibliographies
Alabama publications
Cave fiction
Non-caving periodicals (includes items related to caves, suchas geology, hydrology, and so on)