Textbooks in Academic Libraries: Selection, Circulation, and Assessment

by Chris Diaz (Editor)

Overview

A textbook reserve program can be one way of helping students who are struggling with the high cost of textbooks, and this book spotlights a variety of examples that can be used as models.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838916032
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	09/15/2017
Series:	ALCTS Monograph
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	148
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Chris Diaz is the digital publishing services librarian at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), where he manages the institutional repository and the library's digital publishing program. He became interested in college textbooks and open educational resources when he was the collections management librarian at National Louis University (Chicago).

Table of Contents

Textbooks in Academic Libraries

Contents

Introduction

1. “Basically Everything I Need, I Know the Library Has It”

2. Access and Affordability

3. The Good and the Bad

4. A Student-Funded Textbook Reserve

Program

5. Building a STEM Collection of Undergraduate Textbooks

6. Evolution of a Textbook Circulation Program

7. Can Hard-Copy Textbooks on Library Reserve Help Address the Textbook Dilemma?

8. Walking the Tightrope

9. General Education

About the Contributors

Index