Ordering Materials

Online Order Form for Books

Online Order Form for A/V Materials

The ordering of library materials is organized under a system of division allocations of the book and audio-visual materials budget.

Each division receives one allocation for books selections and another for audiovisual materials. However, the funds can be spent for either.  In the past, we have used various kinds of paper forms for requesting library materials. This year (2007-08) we would like to try using online forms instead.  At the top of this page are links to online masters for both book and audio-visual ordering. 

For each item requested please fill out the appropriate online order form and save them as you fill them out. When the forms are completed, please e-mail the forms to your division chair. This will allow the division chair to approve the purchases. When approved, the division chair will e-mail the forms to the library. Book purchases are sent to Werner and AV purchases are sent to Nora. At some point in the process here in the library, copies of the order slips will be printed out to go into the books to identity them for processing. Please keep a backup copy of your requests for your own records.

April 1 is now the deadline for all orders/division materials requests to be in the library.  The reason for this requirement relates to the deadline for spending for that academic year.  All orders for that year must be finished and items received by June 30 in order to be considered part of that year’s purchases. This is a requirement that the auditors have for college accounts and applies to other campus departments other than the library. If this deadline for ordering works well for the divisions as well as the library and business office, we will begin using this as our yearly deadline. 

 Special Note from Werner Lind, Asst. Library Director/Collection Development:

Book reviews might be of use to you in recommending items for purchase by the library. Currently, the database Expanded Academic Index ASAP provides access to book reviews from Booklist (full-text coverage from Oct 15, 1993 -- Current) and Library Journal (full-text coverage from Jan 1, 1997 -- Current).  Choice magazine is available in full-text from Dec. 1, 1994 -- March 1, 1996. 

The library has print subscriptions to Booklist and Library Journal.   Faculty who wish to receive photocopies of book reviews in their subject area(s) from these publications (provided either publication has a section in their reviews that is discipline-specific enough to apply to your area –not all BC majors are represented by their own section in these journals, unlike Choice) should let me know; I will then put the copied reviews in your box in Lansdell whenever we get a new issue. (If you already receive these, you don’t have to do anything to continue to.) You are also welcome to browse the print copies, which are kept in the library workroom (not in the regular collection). Just ask any library staff person for assistance.

When the library receives discipline-specific publisher’s announcements or catalogs, I normally pass these on to the head of that department or division (if I have duplicates, I distribute these to selected other faculty in the area). He or she may then pass these on, at discretion, to other faculty who may be interested. Sometimes such materials are passed on to a faculty person other than the chair, if I know they relate specifically to a course only he or she teaches, or if the person has a special interest in the type of advertised materials that other faculty do not.

Publisher’s general book catalogs go into a file cabinet drawer in my office; you are welcome to browse through these if you wish. About twice a year, I go through these; at that time, I may put tear sheets in your box, with information about books which you may (or may not) be interested in recommending for purchase. Also, I may from time to time put tear sheets from my backlog of older book reviews in your box, with titles marked in which you might be interested. These are only suggestions at the most (sometimes not even that –just questions), and aren’t intended to carry any pressure.