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 a support College Libraries with purchasing.

All members of the University can request the library to purchase a book for the library collection.

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  .