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Paperbacks. When making a choice between paperback and hardback, the long term value and expected use of the title will be considered. The library will always have to buy the hard back, not unless there is only a paper back edition.

Textbooks, Programming and Lab Manuals. Titles in these categories are not normally purchased. Exceptions are those which have earned a reputation as “classics” in their fields, or which are the only best sources of information on a particular topic. Such titles will be evaluated and added to the collection based on the above guidelines and are delineated in the discipline policies.

Format Guidelines

Materials will be purchased as needed to support the curriculum in all formats for which the Benavides Library has equipment and facilities. The Library will not collect such items as:

• Article reprints, pre-prints
• Costumes
• Master theses and dissertations produced in other colleges and universities unless UST related
• Equipment manuals
• Medical instruments
• Models
• Specimens
• Collectibles

Obsolete Formats

Normally the Benavides Library will not add to the collection materials in obsolete formats to the collection. Any addition of such materials to the collection will be at the discretion of the subject liaison and Library Administrators. The primary criteria for consideration will be the availability of equipment for use of the material and the availability of storage space.

Decision to withdraw such items will be based upon the obsolescence of the format and the physical condition of the necessary equipment. If funds are available and the contents warrant preservation, materials may be transferred to another format instead of being deselected.

Microform. If the library already holds a title in microform, hard copies should not be purchased unless special need can be demonstrated.