Book and video requests

Faculty should submit requests for book or video purchases to your department's liaison librarian.  Division allocations for faculty orders are set by the Library Committee each year and then each division determines how its allocation will be divided among its faculty and departments.  Also, the O'Grady Library is this year awarding an additional $500 allocation to new, full-time, tenure-track faculty.  Materials purchased will be cataloged and housed in the library and, unless more suitable for the reference collection, made available for checkout.

Submitting requests

Your liaison will accept book requests in a variety of formats:

• An email with a list of books (titles, authors, publishers, dates, and, if readily available, ISBN)
• Choice cards with your name or initials and department. (Choice cards are distributed monthly to deans.)
• Photocopy of a review with your name or initials and department.
• Publisher's catalog with requested items marked.
• Depending on the title, it can take two months or more from receiving an order to getting it on the shelves.  Please let us know if you have a rush order for a particular class, and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Deadlines

You don't need to make all your requests at once.  Some faculty send one or two requests at a time, others a list of twenty titles.  However, please be aware that the final deadline for requests is March 21, 2007.  Any money not spent by this date will be returned to the library's general materials budget.

Liaison's role

When you submit a request, your liaison will do the following:

• Confirm that the O'Grady Library does not already own the title;
• See how widely it is held in Summit;
• Confirm how well it fits with your department's collection development policies;
• In some cases, investigate how standard collection development sources have reviewed or ranked the resource (e.g., Choice, Resources for College Libraries, and various reviews);
• Contact you to follow-up if there are questions about a title;
• Place the order.

You should receive an email when the order has arrived and been cataloged.  Should a particular book not fall within a collection development call number range, it will not necessarily be rejected.  Your liaison should contact you to confirm the title's priority for your teaching.  The library has a limited collection development budget, so we must be careful how we use these resources.  Our primary collection development goal is "to support course work and independent study by students."  Faculty participation in ordering materials enables the library to do this much more effectively because its the faculty that knows what is needed for classes.

Journal requests

Use the printable form or the online form (coming soon)
 

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