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Suggest a purchase

How to suggest a purchase for the library collections

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Thank you for your interest in the collections of Auckland City Libraries. Items suggested for purchase by customers are given serious consideration, and purchased if they fall within the selection guidelines.

Read the guidelines below, and then use our suggestion for purchase form.


Selection guidelines

Items will not be purchased if they are out of print, very specialised or of interest to only a small number of people, unable to be supplied by standard library suppliers, or if there are sufficient copies of the titles or similar titles. Preference is given to suggestions for titles published in the last 12 months, and that are already published (ie not pre-publication).

Suggestions can be made via the website or in print on a suggestion for purchase form available from library staff. You can search Global Books in Print through our Digital Library to check the details of the title you wish to request, and get an indication if the item is still in print and available to purchase.

We inform customers when we decide not to purchase the suggested title, provided contact details have been supplied (preferably email).

In order that we can meet these requests in a timely manner, you may be asked to limit the number of suggestions. 


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Last reviewed: 21 May 2009