Our Services: Requesting a Purchase: Home

The Library welcomes requests for resource purchases from all staff and students..

We have a dedicated acquisitions team based within Collections at the Bill Bryson Library. The team order books for Bill Bryson Library, Palace Green, International Study Centre (Stockton) as well as support College Libraries with purchasing.

All members of the University can request the library to purchase a book for the library collection. Most requests can be made direct to the library using the purchase request form without permission from a staff member. The exception to this is if there is an ongoing cost for access to the resource or the one off cost is more than the purchasing threshold.

This can be:

• Items not in our collections: a suggestion for a new item to be added to our collections. This can be for your studies, research, personal development or general interest.
• MORE Books: a request for additional copies of items to be purchased.
• Reading List items: (Reading list requests from Staff must be made via Talis Aspire)
• Missing Books: to replace missing or damaged books.
• Liberate My Library: Increase visibility and representation of BAME, LGBTQ+, Disability, Gender and Identity as well as wider EDI areas.
• Wellbeing: Books to support personal wellbeing or supporting others.
• Personal Development: books to support your personal development bit at work and home. 

The reason for requesting a title can range from resources for teaching to general interest and fiction.

These pages provide a brief introduction on how to request a purchase, types of request, routes for purchasing for staff and students, delivery times, etc  .

More information can also be found on our Library Content Policy .