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Books (latest editions):
R - Recommended, SR - Strongly Recommended, O - Optional
- Current Therapy in Theriogenology – Morrow SR
- Current Veterinary Therapy : Food Animal Practice – Howard [also available as online book (5th ed)] SR
- Herd Health: Food Animal Production Medicine – Radostits, Leslie & Fetrow SR
- Large Animal Internal Medicine – Smith (1996 edition mentioned, but others available) SR
- Principles of Epidemiology - Seedle [not owned by VML] or other basic epidemiology text - SR
- Principles of Accounting - Strawser or other basic accounting text - SR
- Veterinary Immunology - Tizard - SR
- Veterinary Medicine - Radostits, Blood, Gay - SR
- Animal Feeding and Nutrition - Jurgens - R
- Beef Production Medicine - Bechtol and Kidenour - R
- Bovine and Equine Urogenital Surgery - Walker and Vaughn - R
- Farm Management - Boehlje - R
- Food Safety and Quality Assurance: Foods of Animal Origin - Hubert and Hagstad - R
- Hagan/Bruner's Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - R
- Handbook of Clinical Veterinary Pharmacology - Upson or other basic pharmacology text - R
- Merck Veterinary Manual - R
- Self-Assessment Questions and Answers for Food Animal Practitioners - Pratt - R
- Textbook of Large Animal Surgery - Williams & Wilkins - R
- Veterinary Obstetrics and Genital Diseases - Roberts - R
- Abnormal Morphology of Bovine Spermatozoa - Barth and Oko - O
- Basic Physiology and Anatomy texts - O
- Financial Management: Theory and Practice - Bringham and Gapenski - O
- Food Animal Surgery – Noordsy - O
- Nitrogen and Energy Nutrition of Ruminants - Shirley - O
Publications and Journals:
R - Recommended, SR - Strongly Recommended, O - Optional
- AABP Proceedings of Annual Meetings (1995-present), especially 1985 to current NB: 1985-1994 cataloged as separate records - SR
- Bovine Practitioner - SR
- Compendium's Food Animal Medicine & Management Bound as supplement to Compendium from 1996-2002. Request missing known articles free through Tripsaver Interlibrary Loan - SR
- Compendium on Continuing Education - SR
- NRC, Beef Cattle - National Academy of Sciences - SR
- Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice - SR
- Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association - Food Animal Features - R
- Large Animal Practice - R
- Report: National Beef Quality Audit (current years online) - 1994 [not owned] - R
- Veterinary Accreditation: A Reference Guide for Practitioners [available online] - R
- Society for Theriogenology Proceedings of Annual Meetings - R
- Journal of Animal Science - O
Library Tips
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Updated 1/25/2013.




