Library Support for Low Cost Textbooks

There are two basic ways the library can help provide low and no cost textbooks.

• The library will buy unlimited user e-books.
• The library will buy print books, scan limited pages and host in e-reserves. The print books can then be put on reserve.

Library staff can also help discover titles and provide these to faculty for their consideration.

This guide, https://libguides.uml.edu/textbooksbysubject, made by librarian Margaret Manion, can point you to both library owned textbooks and titles from open textbook websites.

The library subscribes to a service called Faculty Select, which is a portal to e-books available from one of our vendors. Information and links are in the second page of this guide.

If faculty have found a title from whatever source they should feel free to send it and we can find out if any of our vendors has it as an unlimited user e-book.

❉Though we want to be able to buy any title faculty may identify, some titles cost literally thousands of dollars and will be out of reach.