Dear faculty,

Can’t think of what to get yourself for Christmas? Alloway Library has a suggestion. We’re willing to buy  for you up to five of your favourite, discipline-related books. Not only that, but we’ll also provide a safe, well-organized space at the library for them to live in perpetuity. All you have to do is let us know what you’d like and we’ll do the rest! 

Love, Alloway Library

After the success of last two years’ initiatives in which we’ve received several hundred excellent “faculty picks” for the library, we are pleased to invite faculty to select print and electronic books to enrich the library’s collection.   (If you are a student, talk to your instructor about resources you think the library should get to support your studies.) 

  1. This offer is for each TWU faculty member, part-time or full-time.
  2. Send us up to FIVE titles, preferably published since 2010, which would provide significant benefit to students in your particular program/areas of teaching. You may request more than five titles, but please indicate which five are most important; the remaining titles will be placed on a wait-list for purchase in future fiscal years.
  3. Please also specify the format of your requested titles. (Note that in general the library prefers electronic books but will gladly buy print titles on request, or when the price difference between print and electronic formats is too great.)
  4. Requests for extremely expensive titles (e.g., more than $250) will be subject to review by library management.

Please send your list to KenPearson (ken.pearson@twu.ca) in Library Acquisitions by February 15th. Since items must be received by the library before the end of the current fiscal year (30 April 2019) and funds are limited, the earlier you send us your recommendations the greater chance that they will be promptly purchased.