The Earl K. Long Library gratefully accepts donations of books as well as
donations of money for the purpose of purchasing books. On rare occasions,
the library will acknowledge a significant donation by placing a bookplate
in the book and adding a gift note in the entry for the book in the online
catalogue. Examples of donations that, if they are accepted, would warrant
the use of bookplates and gift notes are:
- books
donated (or purchased with donated funds) to honor or memorialize a
person of the donor's choice;
- books
chosen, either by the donor or by the library, specifically to improve
the library's collection in a given area or areas;
- organized
collections of books devoted to a particular topic, which have significant
value as a collection, even if not necessarily as individual works;
- individual
books of outstanding intrinsic value, in which case plates are not actually
glued to the materials, but affixed as per RBMS standards and guidelines.
Examples
of donations that would not warrant the use of bookplates and gift notes
are:
- routine
donations of review copies or sample copies which publishers send to
faculty;
- subscriptions
sent gratis by publishers, authors, or distributors;
- books
sent out in a blanket way to all institutions of UNO's type by their
publishers, authors, or distributors;
- routine
donations of used books which are no longer wanted by their owner;
- copies
of serials used to fill in titles we already subscribe to, even if solicited
from the donor, or any incomplete run of a serial.
The decision
about whether to accept a particular donation, and whether or not a bookplate
and gift note are appropriate should be made by the bibliographer, in consultation,
if necessary, with library administration, before the donation is accepted.
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