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There are many books, periodicals, journals, and electronic resources that would be perfect additions to our collections at the MSU Libraries - more resources, unfortunately, than we have funding for. You can help by sponsoring one or more of the titles on our wish list. Your donation will help make the Libraries even more useful for our faculty, students, and researchers.
To support the MSU collections by purchasing a resource we need, please complete our form and send to the Development Office.
| Purchased? | Title | Description | Amount |
| American History & Culture Online: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 | More than 6.2 million pages of primary source texts documenting 400+ years of American history: memoirs, speeches, letters, sermons, political tracts, legislative proceedings, treaties and more, all accessible through a powerful search interface. | please inquire | |
| Annual Book of ASTM Standards | Provides scientists and engineers with specifications for more than 12,000 technical standards developed by the American Society for Testing and Materials. | please inquire | |
| Anti-Soviet Newspapers | Russia's political turmoil in the crucial years 1918-1922 is documented, in part, by this extensive microfilm reproduction of 493 newspapers from groups associated with or sympathetic to the "White Movement" in the Russian Civil War. | $15,015 | |
| Asian American Drama | Named the best reference database of 2003 by Library Journal, Asian American Drama collects 250 works by contemporary playwrights with theatrical and production details, and biographical sketches of the authors. | please inquire | |
| Black Short Fiction | Named the best reference database of 2004 by Library Journal, Black Short Fiction collects 8,000 short stories, fables, folktales, ballads, and novellas by writers from Africa and the African diaspora. | please inquire | |
| Caribbean Literature | The diverse linguistic and cultural influences on Caribbean literature are fully documented in this online collection, which provides students and scholars access to an extremely little-known body of work. | please inquire | |
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Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology | Nanotechnology - engineering at the molecular level - is poised to make revolutionary changes in medicine and manufacturing. The Dekker Encyclopedia... provides a systematic overview to students in chemistry, physics, and materials science. | $2,450 |
| Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing | Cutting edge technologies used by chemical, polymer, mechanical, electrical and civil engineers are thoroughly detailed in this new 5-volume set. | $2,499 | |
| Encyclopedia of Energy Engineering and Technology | This comprehensive three-volume set covers all theoretical and applied aspects of the production, comsumption and conservation of power, heat and light. | $1,295 | |
| Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers | This single volume brings together a wealth of technical information for polymer scientists and chemical engineers, with details on individual chemical substances, processes, formulas and analytical methods. | $403 | |
| Ergonomics: Major Writings | Some of the best writing in the new applied discipline of ergonomics has been done by consultants, whose work is seldom published. By collecting this little-known literature, Ergonomics: Major Writings fills a significant information gap. | $1,740 | |
| Experimental Mechanics in Nano and Biotechnology | New and emerging methods in manufacturing require engineers to develop forms of engineering measurements and analytical methods. The field of experimental mechanics is growing rapidly to address this need. | $458 | |
| Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials | This five-volume set provides extensive coverage of the applications of magnetic materials in fields as diverse as telecommunications, medicine, data storage, and aviation. | $1,485 | |
| Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period | Combining primary source content and original scholarly commentary, this new online database allows both bodies of material to be searched together, and provides unique access to a long-neglected body of literature. | please inquire | |
| Latin American Women Writers | A unique view of Latin American history and culture is presented through letters, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction written by women in Central and South America from the 1600s to the present. | please inquire | |
| Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction | Hispanic-American culture is explored through 200 novels, 20,000 pages of poetry, and 450 plays by Mexican-Americans, Cuban Americans, Puerto Rican Americans, and others from the mosaic of Hispanic culture in the U.S. | please inquire | |
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Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences | Nanotechnology -- engineering at the molecular level -- is poised to make revolutionary changes in medicine and manufacturing. This 10-volume series offers a comprehensive resource on the biomedical applications of nanotechnology. | $1,490 |
| Romanticism and Politics: 1789-1832 | This extensive history of the Romantic period pays special attention to the polical events that shaped the period, from the French Revolution in 1789 to the influential British Reform Act of 1832. | $1,070 | |
| The Bury Bible | A full-color reproduction of one of the masterpieces of medieval art: a Bible produced at Bury St. Edmunds abbey in about 1135. The artist combined long-established artistic traditions with his own innovative, naturalistic approach. | $750 | |
| The Collected Writings of Henry Dyer | Scholars in Japanese history, science education, and the sociology of industrialization should all be familiar with the work of Henry Dyer, who established Japan's first Western-style programs in science and engineering. | $714 | |
| The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine: The Mid-Victorian Ladies Journal, 1852-1856 | The earliest years of The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine are a treasure trove of social history, with articles on fashion, childrearing, natural history, and women's issues such as voting rights and the education of girls. | $1,175 | |
| The Shakespeare Collection | This online research environment for the world's most-studied dramatist includes fully annotated scholarly editions of all Shakespeare's works; full text journals; primary source materials; biographical sources, photographs, and much more. | please inquire | |
| The Way Home: A Constructive Dialog on Race | Oakland filmmaker Shakti Butler spent three years listening to conversations between women across the US speaking about race, class, gender, assimilation, beauty standards, power, school experiences, and more. | $350 | |
| William Gilpin: Picturesque Tours, Aesthetics and Life | Author William Gilpin is an essential figure in the history of the Romantic movement. His travel journals and essays on principles of "the picturesque" were well-known and popular among British tourists in the 1780s and 1790s. | $1,865 |