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The Library seeks to acquire new and relevant books, and other materials, across all subjects taught and researched at °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ:

• through the selective purchasing of required and recommended materials on reading lists, which support taught courses in the College
• in response to recommendations and requests made by current academic and student members of the College
• through the receipt of donations made to the Library by current members of °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ, Old Members, and other friends of the College
• by building on existing collection strengths and to support current and future research at New College
• through the acquisition, by donation and purchase, of modern antiquarian materials and of early printed books and manuscripts which develop our outstanding special collections.

We welcome and invite recommendations for new book purchases from current °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ students and academics.

If there is a book (or other item) which you require that the Library does not hold, you should email the Librarian with your book purchase requests.  Please first refer to our guidelines on how to make book purchase requests.

Some Acquisitions Highlights—annually from 2019 onwards

• 2024:
  • ’A Newly Acquired Literary Manuscript, MS 381: The Autograph Copy of Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows (1949)’
• 2023:
  • ’Unique and Distinctive Acquisitions to °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library in 2023’
• 2022:
  • ’A Library about °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ: Noteworthy Acquisitions in 2022’
  • ’Ned Warren’s ‘Jack in the Pulpit’: °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ MS 380 and Textual Transmission’
  • ’The Appeal of Eros to Apollo: A New Manuscript for °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ, Oxford’ (MS 379)
• 2021:
  • ‘Novelty and Notability: °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library Acquisitions 2021’
• 2020:
  • ‘Some Notable Acquisitions and Associations from 2020’
• 2019:
  • ‘Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library in 2019’
     

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