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Acquisitions Department

Staff

• Becky Boswell
  Acquisitions Coordinator
  Senior Library Associate
  Office: Library 107
  Phone: (706) 562-1491
  Email: boswell_becky@colstate.edu

Activities

• Order and receive library materials, excluding periodicals and government documents, in various formats (books,CD-ROMs, musical scores, compact disc, etc.) for the library.
• Process payments for all the library materials purchased for the library (books, Periodicals, microfiche/microfilm, CD-ROMs, musical Scores, Compact Discs, etc.) and handle the Library Budget for the same.

Policies and Procedures

Ordering

Primary responsibility for the selection of library materials lies with the Library Liaisons to meet the curricular needs of CSU students and/or faculty. Faculty would would like to place an order for library purchase need to fill out the online order form and send the form to your Liaison Librarian.

Requests submitted by staff and students are subject to approval by the appropriate Liaison Librarian. Please send your request via e-mail, campus mail, or the online order form to the Library Liaisons. To see if our library already owns a particular title you may search our on-line catalog GIL before placing an order.

Orders are placed with various jobbers/publishers according to discounts, availability of titles, & requestors' needs. Several orders are placed online through the jobbers/publishers web sites and then entered on the library's automated system, Voyager. Once the orders are received and cataloged they are visible to the public on GIL.

Gifts

The Acquisitions Department accepts gifts in order to build its collections, although certain restrictions apply. Please read the Gifts Policy.

Forms and Local Links

• GIL
• Material Purchase Recommendation

External Links

• Useful Acquisitions Web Sites
• AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
• Advanced Book Exchange
• Bibliofind
• C. Dickens Fine, Rare, and Collectible Books
• ElephantBooks.com
• Library Spot
• The Universal Currency Converter ™
• Cool Library of the Week
• ALA
• Publishers Catalogue
• Library of Congress
• OCLC
• Jobbers/Publishers Web Sites
• Ambassador Book Service
• Baker & Taylor Information
• Book House Inc.
• Eastern Book Company
• Gale
• West
• EBSCO
• Amazon.com