To get the textbooks you need for your classes, you need to answer the following questions:
To answer the second question, you may wish to explore the following on-campus resources:
At the risk of stating the obvious, before acquiring your textbooks, you need to know what books you need to acquire.
Two likely sources of this information are:
To access the bookstore's website:
A final option is to access the Registration section of PAWS, as described for Signing up for Classes. One of the links in this section is for Reserve/Order Course Textbooks Online.
If you are an online student, you can order your textbooks through the virtual bookstore.
To access the bookstore's website:
Once you have identified your needed textbooks, you may either purchase or rent (in the case of some eBooks) them from the campus bookstore.
While the Evans Library does not have copies of all textbooks, students may sometimes access textbooks through the Evans Library. To determine the availability of textbooks:
If you find the book in our collection, you will find that it is in either print or electronic form. The image below shows a catalog search result in which the book is available in both of these formats.
Electronic books are available online at any time.
In the example pictured above, note that the last line of each entry provides two pieces of information:
The loan periods are:
Books located in Reserves - iDesk or Instructor Reserves - iDesk may be requested at the iDesk on the ground floor of the library. You may only use them within the library. Most reserves can only be used for a maximum of two hours. If you are interested in a particular part of the book, scanners on the ground floor may be used, free of charge, to make PDF copies of the content of interest.
Textbooks placed on reserve at the iDesk are the most recent editions the Library owns, whereas those available for borrowing are typically earlier editions. Another way to check if your required textbook is on reserve at the iDesk is to: