The Purchase Request Form is used in the event that you wish to have the Library purchase a book for your related academic discipline. Properly completed it will allow the Collection Management Department to determine if it is feasible to fulfill your request.

• Book donations should be no more than 15 years old. Exceptions are made for material about Chico, Northeastern California, limited editions and other books of special interest.
• The library does not accept donations of textbooks, single issues of journals and magazines (except for replacement of missing issues), or handbooks.
• Donations are very selectively added to the collection.
• Donations not added to the collection are given to the Friends of the Meriam Library for fundraising purposes.
• All donated not added to the collection or sold by the Friends are recycled with a recognized recycler.
• The library, by law, cannot offer appraisals on the value of donated collections.

The Library does not add duplicates to the collection and requests donors to check potential donations against the Library Catalog to eliminate duplicates.