The University is committed to a Library policy that provides a variety of resources to meet the curricular and research needs of the students and faculty. Faculty members are invited and expected to make appropriate requests to maintain basic and current holdings in their respective disciplines. Funds from the Library budget are allocated to every academic component for the purchase of books, periodicals, and audio-visual materials. Faculty are especially encouraged to select the classics in their disciplines, primary source materials, journals that record the most significant research, and audio-visual materials that will enrich the curriculum. Faculty members should present their requests to their component library representative who, in turn, gathers and sends the approved requests to the Acquisitions Librarian. Additional course fee funds are available for library materials to enrich classroom instruction. Faculty members need only to identify the course and forward requests directly to the Acquisitions Librarian.