Book Ordering Policies

In order to process your orders quickly, accurately, and efficiently, we ask that faculty members adhere to the following policies when placing orders for library materials:

1. Ordering deadline for each fiscal year is March 1. Any requests received after that date will be held and ordered the next fiscal year.
   
   
2. All purchases must be made through the library acquisitions department. No reimbursement will be made for items purchased elsewhere.
   
   
3. Please include as much information as possible about the title being ordered, including full author, title, publisher, ISBN, edition, paper vs. cloth, and list price (not the sale price, please).
   
   
4. You do not need to specify a vendor or source for monographs. We have made favorable purchasing arrangements that offer us strong overall discounts and include some physical processing of materials. This allows us to keep our cataloging and processing backlog to a minimum and gets the books on the shelves more quickly.
   
   
5. Please check the combined online catalog before submitting the form. Does Roanoke College own it? Whenever possible, we avoid duplicating resources between our two libraries.
   
   
6. All purchases will be cataloged, added to the library collections and made available to the entire campus. We cannot purchase items for departmental or office use.
   
   
7. The library does not purchase textbooks. Books required for purchase by students in the bookstore should not be ordered for the collection.
   
   
8. To request the purchase of a new journal title, please contact your division librarian.