Purchasing new materials for teaching

When you update your Resource List and send the list to the Library using the 'Request Library Review' button, the Library will automatically submit purchase requests for all Essential and Recommended items on your list to check for e-book availability. If no suitable e-book is available, we’ll purchase 1 print copy per 20 students, if Essential and 1 copy per 40 students, if Recommended. If we provide a scan and no e-book is available, we will ensure we hold a maximum of 4 print copies for 'Essential' items and a maximum of 2 print copies for 'Recommended' items.

Remember to prioritise (tag) your list items using Key text, Essential, Recommended or Further reading.

If there are new items on your list that are required in time for the start of Semester, please send your list to the Library for review by the advertised deadline. Any other new items can be added to Resource Lists and requested throughout the year. Requests will be processed by date received. 

As long as you tag list items and send your list for review, no further action is required from you. 

If the Library doesn’t have a book, journal article, e-book or new edition you would like to use in your teaching, you can use your Resource List to make a purchase request using the Cite It! tool. When you send your Resource List to the Library for review, we will use the information provided to purchase the book or provide access to the journal article.

Watch our help video on how to add Cite It! at  Resource Lists: Help and guides

Use Cite It! to add a book the Library doesn’t currently own to your list. You can add the item directly from an external website (such as WorldCat, another library catalogue, a publisher or bookseller, e.g. Amazon or Blackwell’s).

1.  Go to the appropriate website and find the book you wish you to add.
2. Click on the Cite It! button installed in your bookmarks toolbar. 
3. The pop-up window will open and Leganto will fill in the book details automatically.
4. At the bottom of the pop-up window:
   1. Select Add to: List
   2. Select your Resource List from the drop-down menu and select the section you want to add the item to from the drop-down menu
   3. Click Add & close
5. Remember to add a priority tag to the new item on the list (Essential, Recommended or Further reading).
6. Add a Purchase request tag to Essential and Recommended items. The Library will not purchase new Further reading items for teaching.
7. Use Library Discussion to provide the Library with any additional information or guidance.
8. Send the list for review using the 'Request Library Review' button.
9. The Library will notify you if an item requested is not available, otherwise the book requested will be added to your Resource List when available.  

See the Getting started guide for more information on how to use your list to request a book purchase.

If your course doesn’t have a Resource List you have two options: 

1. You can set up a new list yourself, add items and send the list for review, or 

2. Contact the Library to set up a Resource List for you.  

There's a guide to help you create a new list.

Whichever option you select, the Library will take the same actions and submit purchase requests for all Essential and Recommended items on your list to check for e-book availability and if no suitable e-book is available, we’ll purchase 1 copy per 20 student if Essential and 1 copy per 40 students if Recommended.