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Purchase Requests

The Library staff follow a formal Acquisitions Policy in selecting and purchasing materials for the Library. Our Acquisitions Policy may answer many of your questions regarding library purchases.

Full-time faculty may directly recommend purchases to library staff.

Part-time faculty should place purchase requests through their Division Chairs.

Book Purchases

To request a book for the library's collection, you may:

Audio-Visual Purchases

Audio-Visual materials (i.e. videos, slides, CD products, etc.) must be previewed and evaluated prior to recommendation for purchase.

Preview requests should be submitted to library@howardcc.edu.

Database/Journal Purchases

Databases & journals must be reviewed, priced and evaluated by the Library.

Recommendations should be submitted to Nana Owusu at nowusunkwantabisa@howardcc.edu.