Request for library purchases?

DazHealy

I was just wondering is there a way you can request the Libraries to purchase a copy(ies) of a book? The library has no copies of it and it is academically relevant.

Unshelved

Contact your Subject Librarian. Click on the relevant subject here - or just email dutylibrarian@tcd.ie .

languagenerd

I'm not the OP, but I didn't know you could do that! There's a load of books we could really do with English translations of for languages/literature courses - is that allowed?

CIARAN_BOYLE

languagenerd wrote: »

I'm not the OP, but I didn't know you could do that! There's a load of books we could really do with English translations of for languages/literature courses - is that allowed?

You can ask there is no guarantee that you will get it but you might.

AFAIK each there a budget for acquisitions for each subject so if you ask the appropiate librarian you are drawing there attention towards it

Unshelved

I'm not the OP, but I didn't know you could do that! There's a load of books we could really do with English translations of for languages/literature courses - is that allowed?

I'm afraid the Lecturers wouldn't be big fans of that - you're meant to read the literature in the original language. It's likely that there are English translations in Stacks that you can send for, and read in the Library if you're an undergraduate. Or, if the author is out of copyright (more than 75 years dead) you could check the Project Gutenburg website.

But bear in mind that if you're studying a language, you're meant to be studying the language and not the translation, so they won't be appearing on the shelves any time soon.

languagenerd

Unshelved wrote: »

I'm afraid the Lecturers wouldn't be big fans of that - you're meant to read the literature in the original language. It's likely that there are English translations in Stacks that you can send for, and read in the Library if you're an undergraduate. Or, if the author is out of copyright (more than 75 years dead) you could check the Project Gutenburg website.

But bear in mind that if you're studying a language, you're meant to be studying the language and not the translation, so they won't be appearing on the shelves any time soon.

Ok, fair enough. It's actually our medieval literature courses I'm thinking of - very difficult to read, even for native speakers! (Imagine reading Shakespeare in Spanish, for example). A copy of that sort of book in English would be very helpful, because sometimes there are entire pages that I've read and not understood more than 20% of what's going on.

Unshelved

Ask your Lecturer. If a lecturer gets in touch with us and asks us to move the books from Stacks to the Open Shelves or to purchase English language copies then we'd be happy to. Otherwise, the answer's generally no, I'm afraid.

However, English translations may well be available online. Try the Library database EEBO or try the project Gutenberg website.

languagenerd

Unshelved wrote: »

Ask your Lecturer. If a lecturer gets in touch with us and asks us to move the books from Stacks to the Open Shelves or to purchase English language copies then we'd be happy to. Otherwise, the answer's generally no, I'm afraid.

However, English translations may well be available online. Try the Library database EEBO or try the project Gutenberg website.

Thanks for your replies I may try there if I'm seriously struggling with any of them this term.