Collection Development Tools & Forms
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These tools are recommended for use by the Librarian liasions to acquire and categorize materials for the Gettysburg College Library. Tools designated as "password required" may only be used by Gettysburg College staff.
Forms
- Electronic Resource Request Form (Word doc) (library staff only)
- Serial Request Form (Word doc) (library staff only)
- Library Liaison Profile (PDF) (library staff only)
Approval Plans
- Gobi/YBP Library Services (library staff only - password required)
- McNaughton Books (library staff only - password required)
Current Books
- Amazon
- Barnes & Noble
- Books in Print
- Borders
- Bowker Resources for College Libraries (password required)
- Alibris
- AddAll
- Advanced Book Exchange
- Powell's Bookstore
- The Strand Bookstore
Foreign language books
Multiple languages
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- Continental Book Company
- Schoenhof's Bookstore (a U.S.-based foreign languages bookstore)
- Amazon.fr (French)
- FNAC (French)
- FYIFrance: Bookdealers in France (an extensive list of booksellers)
French
German
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- Amazon.de
- International Book Import Service (IBIS) (You can search various German publishers' catalogs, as well as VLB: Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher--the German Books In Print, then order via IBIS)
- www.zvab.com (Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher)
- Amazon.co.jp (Japanese)
- Casa del Libro (a Madrid-based bookseller)
- Gandhi (a Mexico City-based bookseller)
- Ibero-American Booksellers on the World Wide Web (SALALM)
- Latin American Bookstore
- Librería García Cambeiro (Books from Argentina)
- Librería Porrúa (another Mexico City-based bookseller)
- Puvill (book vendor specializing in materials from Spain, Mexico, and Cuba
- Unilibro (Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and Valencian language)
Italian
Japanese
Spanish
Microforms
- UMI Serials in Microform (SIM) (newspapers and periodicals)
Videos/DVDs
Music
Serials
- Alfred Jaeger, Inc.
- Ulrichsweb
- UMI Serials in Microform (SIM) (newspapers and periodicals)
- USBE (United States Book Exchange)
Review sources
Instructions
- An Explanation of Library Fund Codes
- How to read your current accounting report for your fund (PDF)
- Evaluating Approval Slips
Classification of library materials
- Library of Congress Classification Outline (from the Library of Congress)
- Library of Congress Classification Outline, 6th edition
Union catalogs and lists
Publishers on the Web
Directories /Meta-sites/Publisher Associations
- Association of American Publishers - Membership List
- Books in Print (contains directory of publishers)
- Planet of Books (links to international publishers)
- PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Association
- Publishers' catalogue
- Publishers on the Web
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Publishers
Individual Publishers
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- American Chemical Society
- American Institute of Physics
- American Mathematical Society
- American Medical Association
- American Physical Society
- American Physiological Society
- American Psychiatric Publishing
- Cambridge University Press
- Canadian Mathematical Society
- CQ Press
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Haworth Press
- Institute of Physics
- MIT Press
- National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
- National Council of Teachers of English
- Oxford University Press
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Springer-Verlag LINK
- The Company of Biologists
- University of Chicago Press
- Wiley
Research collections
300 North Washington Street · Gettysburg, PA 17325