Students should be given the opportunity to budget for and purchase books and materials that...
- are essential to student success in the course
AND
- are assigned for reading in their entirety, or at least more than 50%
Students should not be asked to purchase books, software, or subscriptions that...
- are not essential to their success in the course
- need to be referenced but not owned
- are available as unlimited ebook licenses through the library
- are less than 50% assigned reading
- are in the public domain
- would be nice for them to have in a personal library
To support faculty in reducing textbooks costs for students, the Library and its staff will:
- purchase books that you want to use less than 50% of
- check to see if an unlimited ebook license can be purchased
- offer Bowdoin Digital Delivery to facilitate posting readings to Canvas
- offer a fancy scanner to help you or your ADC scan readings easily and efficiently
- order a book for the collection that you think you might want to assign, and hold it for you to check out first
- help you interlibrary loan books you might want to assign, so you can review them
- help you determine whether your chosen reading is in the public domain
- help find alternative readings
- assist in searching for and vetting Open Educational Resources (OER)
- help you decide how much of a book or reading to post to Canvas (copyright law, Fair Use)
