Helping Keep the Costs of Textbooks for Students Down: Two Approaches
Author
Thomas, William Joseph; Bernhardt, Beth R.
Abstract
Librarians at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro received a 2-year grant to support a combined alternative textbook project. This project engages in a two-pronged approach to reduce students’ textbook costs and increase their academic engagement. One strategy is to award departmental faculty mini-grants to use materials that would have no cost to their students, including OER or library resources. The second strategy is to identify required texts that the library already owns or can purchase as unlimited-user e-books. Benefits to students include reduced costs and an increased opportunity for engagement and academic success. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Technical Services Quarterly on May 17, 2018, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07317131.2018.1456844 .
Date
2018-05
Citation:
APA:
Thomas, William Joseph, & Bernhardt, Beth R.. (May 2018).
Helping Keep the Costs of Textbooks for Students Down: Two Approaches.
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268, DOI: 10.1080/07317131.2018.1456844. Retrieved from
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6712
MLA:
Thomas, William Joseph, and Bernhardt, Beth R..
"Helping Keep the Costs of Textbooks for Students Down: Two Approaches". .
. (),
May 2018.
December 11, 2023.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6712.
Chicago:
Thomas, William Joseph and Bernhardt, Beth R.,
"Helping Keep the Costs of Textbooks for Students Down: Two Approaches," , no.
(May 2018),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6712 (accessed
December 11, 2023).
AMA:
Thomas, William Joseph, Bernhardt, Beth R..
Helping Keep the Costs of Textbooks for Students Down: Two Approaches. .
May 2018;
():
.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6712. Accessed
December 11, 2023.
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