{"id":2961,"date":"2025-03-31T20:29:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T20:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2025-03-31T20:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T20:29:57","slug":"new-recommend-a-purchase-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/2025\/03\/31\/new-recommend-a-purchase-page\/","title":{"rendered":"New: Recommend a Purchase Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/library.ualberta.ca\/about\/collection\/recommend-a-purchase\">Recommend a Purchase page<\/a>, recently added to the Library website, provides patrons with an overview of the purchase request process before directing them to the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.library.ualberta.ca\/recommend_purchase\/index.php\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/web.library.ualberta.ca\/recommend_purchase\/index.php\">Recommend a Purchase form<\/a>. In addition, the page highlights the Library&#8217;s new Broaden our Bookshelf initiative, which seeks to add diverse stories and experiences to our collection, particularly those from marginalized or underrepresented communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may recall that we had a contest last summer to choose a name for this initiative, and Broaden our Bookshelf was selected. This program has been added to the Recommend a Purchase form under the &#8220;Main Reason for Request&#8221; drop-down menu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to Caeleigh and Natasha for your input on this page and to Junelle for creating it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Recommend a Purchase page, recently added to the Library website, provides patrons with an overview of the purchase request process before directing them to the Recommend a Purchase form. In addition, the page highlights the Library&#8217;s new Broaden our Bookshelf initiative, which seeks to add diverse stories and experiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}