Books, CDs, and DVDs

Request options:

• Email request to asktobuy@hamilton.edu
• Fill out the Ask to Buy form
• Drop off or mail request to Abigail Morton, Burke Library
• For video rentals, contact Claire Skjellerup, 315-859-4120
   

Include the following with your request:

• Creator (e.g., author, composer, performer, etc.)
• Title
• Publisher
• Date of publication
• Format (book, CD, DVD)
• ISBN or UPC (if known)
• Department to which the purchase should be charged
• Where you found your information (e.g., publisher's catalog, website with url, review from a journal or newspaper, etc.)
• Special instructions
   

Questions:

• Abigail Morton
  Senior Acquisitions Assistant
  315-859-4494

Databases

To request trials or discuss database resources that would benefit your courses and research, contact your department liaison librarian.

Article databases and other electronic collections typically require annual licensing agreements that result in an ongoing cost to the college. While we are happy to set up trials and explore purchasing options, the addition of a new database often requires the termination of an existing one.
 

Questions:

• Lynn Mayo
  Reference Librarian/Coordinator of Electronic Resources
  315-859-4746

Journals

To discuss journals or other serial sets that would benefit your courses and research, contact your department liaison librarian.

Journal subscriptions represent an ongoing cost to the college that is subject to an annual inflation rate of 4-6%. Because of this, the request for a new subscription requires careful consideration with the final decision being made by the director of the library. Normally, the academic department will be asked if there are existing titles of roughly equal cost they are willing to cancel.
 

Requests should include:

• Title, publisher, place of publication, and ISSN
   

Questions:

• Barbara Swetman
  Acquisitions Librarian
  315-859-4470