A few of the textbooks available this fall
Introducing the Textbook Lending Pilot Program
Beginning this fall semester, Woodruff Library is launching a pilot program providing short-term loans of required textbooks for selected Emory College courses via Course Reserves. This initiative is a collaborative effort, jointly funded by Woodruff Library and Campus Life/Emory First, to enhance student access to essential course materials.
How to find out which textbooks are included
Wondering which textbooks are part of this new program? You can easily find out by:
- Checking Library Search to see the textbooks currently available via the Textbook Lending pilot. Additional textbooks are being added as the semester gets underway!
- Clicking here for working lists of Fall 2024 100-200 level Emory College courses with textbooks that already are or soon will be available via the pilot program. Views available by course number, textbook title, and call number.
- Checking the Course Reserves system (also accessible via Canvas) where Textbook Lending items are being added to relevant courses.
Where to borrow textbooks
Check out physical Textbook Lending items from the Woodruff Library Service Desk on Level 2
- These textbooks are part of the library’s Course Reserves collection with a loan period of 3 hours.
- For the fastest service, please request the textbook you want by its call number (see links above to locate call numbers).
- Due to high demand, textbooks are not requestable online and may not be renewed.
- You can check out a textbook again after returning it if no one else is waiting for it.
Criteria for textbook inclusion
Textbooks are being added to the Textbook Lending Pilot Program based on the following criteria:
- Must be required for an Emory College course at the 100-200 level with a maximum enrollment of 75+ students
- Title, author, and edition must be provided via the Emory Bookstore and/or instructors/departments.
- Must be available in a format the library can purchase or license (mostly physical/print textbooks). Most textbook publishers only sell/rent digital editions, access and media codes, etc., to individual students, not to libraries.
- The library will provide up to six physical copies of required textbooks for most eligible courses, depending on overall enrollment.
- Please note: The Textbook Lending program is not intended to take the place of students purchasing textbooks for most of their courses. Due to budget limitations, the libraries are unable to purchase textbooks for every course at Emory.
What if your textbook isn’t included?
If your Emory College course and textbook meet the above criteria for inclusion in the Textbook Lending pilot but the textbook doesn’t seem to be included, please email reserves [at] emory [dot] edu with your course and textbook information. The Course Reserves team will review your request and respond as quickly as possible. Your help in including all eligible courses and textbooks in this pilot program is greatly appreciated.
Relation to other campus initiatives
The Woodruff Library Textbook Lending pilot program supersedes the pre-pandemic First-Generation Low-Income Partnership (FLIP) reserves collection, a donation-based collection originally located in the former Dobbs University Center (DUC). This collection was incorporated into Woodruff Library Course Reserves in 2017, when construction began on the current student center. Since then, demand for the original FLIP collection declined significantly, leading the library and Campus Life/Emory First to explore possible alternatives. In 2023, FLIP moved a new collection of donated books to Bread Coffeehouse. We hope that this newer donation-based collection and the library’s up-to-date curriculum-based textbook program will complement each other, enhancing student access to the course materials and services they need to succeed academically and flourish at Emory.
Special thanks
Logan Hill, summer intern, with the first Textbook Lending arrivals
Special thanks to Logan Hill, the 2024 Access Services summer DEI intern, for her invaluable assistance in implementing the Textbook Lending Pilot Program. Logan graduated in May from the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill with a master’s degree in library science. Her primary focus during her nine-week internship at Woodruff Library this summer was on our new Textbook Lending pilot program. Logan researched textbook lending programs in academic libraries, worked with Reserves staff to identify textbooks for inclusion in the pilot program, assisted in processing incoming textbooks for Course Reserves, and used her considerable creativity and expertise to design an amazing array of promotional material for the Textbook Lending Program. Some of Logan’s designs are already on display with many more to come!
We are excited about the library’s new Textbook Lending initiative and look forward to supporting Emory College students in their academic journey!
Please email reserves [at] emory [dot] edu or call Jessica Perlove, course reserves coordinator, at 404-727-2230 with any questions.
—Margaret Ellingson, head of Interlibrary Loan and Course Reserves, Woodruff Main and Health Sciences libraries