The Mount Holyoke College Library offers a wide range of services through the activities of the departments described below. The individual webpages for these departments provide further information about these activities and describe how you can access services in-person and on the web. The Acquisitions Department manages procedures for the purchasing and receipt of new materials and gift materials. The library welcomes suggestions for new purchases from the Mount Holyoke community.
Acquisitions provides information on how to make requests for books and other materials.
Please check our current holdings in the Five College Library Catalog before placing a request. To order books you can fill out an order card at Circulation or Reference or submit an electronic order request form . Recent library purchases are listed on our New Acquisitions Page . For more information about the Acquisitions Department, about requesting materials in other formats and for a list of Internet Publishing Resources, please visit the Acquisitions wepage. The Archives and Special Collections collects and preserves the historic records of the College, manuscripts, rare books and ephemeral materials, and makes them available to Mount Holyoke College community and the public.