The Essentials: Ask your library

Generate a library request.

Libraries reject unsolicited third-party requests — but they listen to their patrons. This tool builds a ready-to-send request with the information librarians need to consider the book for their collection.

How this works

Enter your name, your library's name, and (optionally) your library's location below. The request will be personalized with this information.
Choose Open in email to launch your default email app with the request pre-filled. Add your library's acquisitions email address (you can find this on your library's website or by asking a librarian) and send. Note: we don't send the email for you — libraries reject third-party requests but accept patron requests, so it needs to come from you.
Or choose Download as PDF to print the request and mail it, or to submit it through your library's online suggestion form.

Your name (optional)Your library's name (optional)Library location (optional)Personal note (optional)Add a sentence or two about why you'd like your library to carry this book — your own perspective. This will be included in both the email and the PDF.

The email opens in your default email app. Add your library's acquisitions email and send.

Preview

Dear Acquisitions Team,

I'd like to recommend the following title for your collection:

Title: The Autistic Adult's Toolbox
Author: Natalie Diggins
Publisher: Everyday Success Publishing
Distributor: Ingram (available through your standard Ingram account)
ISBN: 979-8-9985689-0-9
Format: Paperback workbook (includes worksheets, planners, and forms designed to be written in by hand)
Publication year: 2025
LCCN: 2025907705

The Autistic Adult's Toolbox gives you reusable, plain-language tools for the parts of adult life that take the most energy: medical appointments, social gatherings, disclosure, meetings, sensory regulation, masking, and burnout recovery.

Why this book belongs in the library's collection: Written by an autistic adult — a technologist diagnosed in adulthood — The Autistic Adult's Toolbox fills a clear gap in adult-services collections. Where most autism resources address children or parents of autistic children, this is a practical, strengths-based guide written for autistic adults themselves. Each chapter pairs first-person narrative with reusable worksheets and templates patrons can apply directly to medical appointments, social events, work meetings, and disclosure conversations. Useful across reference, consumer health, self-help, and disability collections.

Thank you for considering this recommendation.

— A library patron