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Acquisition

The library's acquisition department acquires books, journals and other continuously coming publications and other information resources to the library.

Library patrons can make suggestions for the material to be acquired to the library either with the acquisition suggestion form or with a form from the circulation customer service. Giving as correct information as possible makes the handling of the suggestion faster. The person who made the acquisition suggestion gets the book on loan first if the book is acquired to the collections.

Acquisitions to the collections

The library acquires all text books mentioned in the Aalto University Schools of Technology study programme to the Otaniemi Campus Library. One copy of each text book is acquired for reading room use and can be read in the library or be taken home for overnight or weekend loans. There are 2-5 borrowable copies of the text books. Books on order can be seen in the TEEMU collection database and request may be made to them.

Books missing from the collections or changed text books can be reported to the library for example by e-mail: kirjasto-hankinta [at] tkk [dot] fi.

Both printed and electronic journals are acquired to the library. Journals are subscribed primarily in electronic format. In journal acquisition the focus is in multidisciplinary journals which benefit more than one department or laboratory.

More and more resources in electronic format are being acquired to the collections: in addition to electronic journals also books and databases. These resources can be found in the Nelli portal. Electronic materials are acquired mainly via National electronic library FinELib but also own acquisitions are being made.

Collection policy

In the collection policy of the library is listed the general principles of collection work, the criteria and focus of choosing resources and matters concerning the maintaining of the collections. It gives an overview of the aims and decision-making connected to the printed and electronic collections

Delivery of books to departments/faculties

The library provides books to the units of the Schools of Technology according to their needs. The information of the book in need can be sent with a book provision order form. Books are ordered from the agreed suppliers and are sent to the client after arrival. Responsibility areas will be charged afterwards for the order.

Donations

The library accepts donations of books, journals and other documents that supplement its current collections.
Donations are accepted on the following conditions:

  1. The full ownership of the publications is transferred to the Aalto University Otaniemi Campus Library.
  2. The library independently decides of situating the donated publications in the collections and may donate or transfer them further if necessary.
  3. The criteria for accepting donations to the collections of the library are the same as for purchased and free of charge publications.
  4. The library does not set up separate collections of donated publications.
  5. Donations are only accepted when the terms are agreed on by both parties.