Library taking literary requests
By Dorathea Maynard, News Writing Student
Students are being encouraged to request books to be added to the library’s book collection.
Barbara King, Library Services director, said students can use an online form to request books for the library’s collection.
“This is a way to make sure the Library has materials to meet student needs,” King said.
According to the library website, “Books or magazine purchase requests may be made by any library patron.”
To request an addition to the library collection, students can use any computer with Internet access. Once at the library’s web page, www.occc.edu/library, they can click on the Library Request Forms link, King said.
Then, scroll down to the Book or Magazine Purchase Requests link, choose the appropriate form and fill it out, King said.
After a form is submitted, the librarians look at it for purchase consideration and decide if the requested book is appropriate for the collection.
“We generally are able to purchase the requests,” King said.
The library’s budget allows for the purchase of recommended books, King said.
To better aid the library personnel, King said, students should fill in all the information they know about the desired book.
“The length of time to fill a request varies on the availability of the materials being purchased,” King said.
Students can check back at the library’s website or ask the librarians if the book is available.
Student Tenesha M. Alvarez said she knew about the form but had never used it.
She said she was told about it in a library orientation her English Composition I teacher arranged for class in a previous semester.
Area resident Steven M. Judge said he didn’t know about the request form although he was a student at OCCC from 2003 to 2005.
Judge said, during his time as an OCCC student, “I only checked out one book here.” He said it was a chemistry book he used to study.
“It would be great if they had those [pharmacology] books here,” he said. “Unfortunately, a lot of the books you have here I’ve all ready read,” Judge said, referring to the pharmacy section.
