{"id":18288,"date":"2025-08-26T11:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/?p=18288"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:07:25","slug":"backtoschool2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/news\/backtoschool2025","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, students! Need help finding your syllabus resources?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Digital<\/p>\n

Welcome to fall semester 2025! Whether you\u2019re a new or returning student, you\u2019ll find that all of the Emory Libraries are ready to help you with study and research needs. We encourage you to explore our website<\/a>, where you\u2019ll find information on our subject librarians, study spaces, tech help, databases, and so much more.<\/p>\n

If you are looking for materials from your course syllabi, below are some tips for finding them.<\/p>\n

Does the library have my textbook?<\/strong> Academic libraries typically don\u2019t buy textbooks for their general collections because many are highly specialized and go out of date very quickly. However, Woodruff Library now offers short-term loans of textbooks<\/a> required for some large Emory College courses via\u00a0Course Reserves<\/a>, so it is worth checking to see if the library has a copy. This program is jointly funded by Campus Life\/Emory First and Emory Libraries.<\/p>\n

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  1. See which textbooks are currently available <\/a>as part the library\u2019s Textbook Lending program. More are being added as the semester gets underway!<\/li>\n
  2. Otherwise, check the library\u2019s catalog, Library Search<\/a>, for older titles (be aware that older editions may or may not have all the material your instructor wants you to cover for the class).<\/li>\n
  3. Check\u00a0course reserves<\/a> to see if your professor has placed physical and or electronic items on reserve for the course.<\/li>\n
  4. Search for answers in the Emory Libraries FAQ (Ask Us<\/a>) section.<\/li>\n
  5. Remember\u00a0Emory\u2019s bookstore<\/a>, where you can purchase, rent, or go digital with your textbooks.<\/li>\n
  6. For other potential options, including availability of e-books, please see\u00a0Textbook and Teaching Materials Support<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Where are course reserves?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"Students<\/p>\n

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    1. Access your Course Reserves materials through\u00a0Canvas<\/a>. Click on the Library Course Reserves link in your course. This opens your list of PDFs, web links to electronic resources licensed by Emory, and physical reserves items available for checkout.<\/li>\n
    2. Borrow physical reserves items from your library service desk (in the Woodruff Library, that’s the entry level, or 2nd floor).<\/li>\n
    3. If your instructor doesn\u2019t use Canvas, you can log in directly to the\u00a0Course Reserves site<\/a> to see the materials for all of your classes. Click on \u201cView Course\u201d next to a class to see your material.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      If your professor has listed a book or articles but has NOT put them on reserve, you can do the following:<\/p>\n

      \"Books<\/p>\n

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      1. For books, use Library Search <\/a>to see if the library owns it.<\/li>\n
      2. For articles, try the\u00a0Articles+ tab<\/a>, which provides access to millions of scholarly publications harvested from commercial publishers and open-access repositories.<\/li>\n
      3. Or, for articles, use the citations, which provide brief information about the article title, author, journal title and date. Look up that journal\/magazine\/newspaper name in the\u00a0e-journals database\u00a0<\/a>to see if we own it electronically; if we don\u2019t, we may still have a print copy. When you search in\u00a0e-journals<\/a>, there will be a link to search Library Search<\/a>\u00a0for the print copy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Finally, come visit us at the library service desk or schedule a consultation with\u00a0your subject librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Welcome to fall semester 2025! Whether you\u2019re a new or returning student, you\u2019ll find that all of the Emory Libraries are ready to help you with study and research needs. We encourage you to explore our website, where you\u2019ll find information on our subject librarians, study spaces, tech help, databases, and so much more. If Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7771,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[716,1],"tags":[737,785,946,1779,975,1174,467,787,786],"class_list":["post-18288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-resources","category-news","tag-canvas","tag-course-reserves","tag-e-journals","tag-fall-2025","tag-library-search","tag-student-flourishing","tag-subject-librarians","tag-syllabus","tag-textbooks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NNKS-4KY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18288"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18303,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18288\/revisions\/18303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}