Textbooks are specifically excluded. Also excluded are materials which are essentially guides or manuals dealing with such items as instrumental course-related operations, information which pertains to specific changing or intermittent data or requirements, or to other ephemeral print, including periodical subscriptions.
The purchase of appropriate used books is encouraged; this practice serves to increase the benefit of the award with less cost.
Significant seminal books in a student's academic specialization are also appropriate. The exclusion of textbooks would not apply to basic standard general or specialized reference works of continuing learning value. It is expected that the level of books requested will reflect the student's own stage of intellectual or scholarly development, to be useful at once as well as later. Requests for materials proposed for use as examples in future career situations will be evaluated for their potential innate permanence and intellectual value.
Manuscripts or rare editions will not be considered.
