Authors: Suggest Your Book
Santa Clara County Library District is happy to consider recently published works, either in print or electronic format, for inclusion in our collection. We receive many inquiries from authors, publishers, and publishers’ representatives and have created these guidelines to help you.
The Library routinely acquires books published by commercial publishers that fit the Library's collection development plan and meet our selection criteria. We also may acquire self-published books when they include unique local content, fit the scope of the Library's collection plan and meet our selection criteria, including quality, accuracy, and editing. Due to staffing and time constraints we are not able to meet with individual authors.
Having your book receive an independent, positive review in one or more of the major review journals (such as Library Journal, School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist and Publisher's Weekly) is the best way to bring a title to our attention. We are more likely to consider adding a self-published book to our collection if it has been reviewed in a major review journal, and edited for accuracy. Paid reviews are not considered.
Author Suggest For Purchase
Please submit this form to suggest the library purchase your book. Due to the high volume of submissions we cannot notify you if your book is not selected.
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Donating a Book
Donated books are subject to the same selection criteria as books the Library buys. Materials not added to the Library's collection are sent to one of the Library’s Friends groups for use in a book sale.
We are able to accept donation of books in electronic format if they are compatible with one of the library’s existing platforms, and have no DRM (Digital Rights Management) restrictions.