Purchasing Books, Journals, and Streaming Media 

Lehigh Libraries invite faculty and students to play an active role in the development of the library collection by requesting relevant material required for their own research.

A subject librarian will review requests to make sure the book is within the library's collection development profile. Please contact your subject librarian for further assistance.

Below it links to Express purchase, Requesting Journals and streaming media:

  • Express Purchase may be used by faculty, staff, and students to request print book or ebook formats. The majority of requests are filled within five business days. We ask that requests be limited to five titles per month in order to serve all requestors equally. For books, please check ASA, Lehigh’s online catalog, before submitting a purchase request. If a title is in ASA but without a Dewey call number, then the title may already be on order or have just been received. The ordering/receipt status shows below the bibliographic information.  If there is no such status indicated, then an order is about to be created. This program allows researchers to suggest purchases for print books that are needed for long term use by the requestor and where standard interlibrary loan use is insufficient. A subject librarian will review requests to make sure the book is within the library's collection development profile. 
  • Requesting Journals for your research.
  • Requesting Streaming Media for your teaching and research needs. we recommend a three week lead time.

 

Purchasing Software

 

Contact Us

Please contact the Acquisitions department via email at inord@lehigh.edu if you have any questions.  Or get in touch with Lending Services: