Book Donation Information

In 1980 the AHAP embarked on a program of building a library that would complement the holdings of the Archives in manuscripts, films, photographs, video tapes, audio tapes, standardized tests, laboratory apparatus, printed ephemera, etc. In the first eighteen years gifts of books from psychologists have totaled thousands of volumes, and donations continue to be sought and received.

Gift books and printed materials of interest are sought that relate to the following three sections:

1. Textbooks, test manuals, pseudo-psychology, popular psychology, out dated reference works, directories and encyclopedias, etc.
2. Rare and antiquarian volumes are added to the permanent collection and are displayed in the archives reading room. These volumes are cataloged and do not circulate.
3. Volumes related to Prescientific Psychology.

Volumes compatible with the holdings of the main university library (Bierce), if not previously accessed, may be incorporated into the Bierce collection.  Each will be entered in the main catalog and it’s source indicated by an AHAP bookplate that identifies the psychologist who was the donor. More than 45,000 books have been added to the Bierce collection in this manner.

Books that are duplicated in the collection are forwarded to Scholarly Books (formerly The Epistemologist), and earn credit which may be used for the ‘purchase’ of titles that AHAP desires but does not possess.