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The Library seeks to acquire new and relevant books, and other materials, across all subjects taught and researched at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ:

• through the selective purchasing of required and recommended materials on reading lists, which support taught courses in the ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ
• in response to recommendations and requests made by current academic and student members of the ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ
• through the receipt of donations made to the Library by current members of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Old Members, and other friends of the ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ
• by building on existing collection strengths and to support current and future research at New ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ
• 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 ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ 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 ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library in 2023’
• 2022:
  • ’A Library about ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ: Noteworthy Acquisitions in 2022’
  • ’Ned Warren’s ‘Jack in the Pulpit’: ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ MS 380 and Textual Transmission’
  • ’The Appeal of Eros to Apollo: A New Manuscript for ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford’ (MS 379)
• 2021:
  • ‘Novelty and Notability: ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library Acquisitions 2021’
• 2020:
  • ‘Some Notable Acquisitions and Associations from 2020’
• 2019:
  • ‘Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library in 2019’
     

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