1. Course Adoption Textbook Support
Beth Bernhardt
Assistant Dean for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications
UNCG

2. Textbook crisis
“I stopped buying textbooks my second semester here.” - Marieme T., library student assistant

3. Identifying e-books
Received a list for course titles from the bookstore
Divided up the list (8) staff and researched our holdings
Only books with no DRM restrictions
JSTOR, Project Muse, Wiley, Oxford etc.
ed the faculty
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4. Example
Dr. _______________ I just wanted to let you know that the library has the following assigned textbooks available through our e-book collections. If you have students that can't afford to purchase the textbooks this would be a good alternative. THR201 - Clean House and Other Plays - THR201 - Buried Child 6 THR201 - Backwards and Forwards - Library is ordering it. THR201 - Six degrees of separation 4 THR201 - Laramie Project 1

5. Response from Faculty
Wonderful.  Thank you so much! This is so helpful.
Thanks for the heads-up! I'll the link to my students.
Thank you so much for letting me know.  I'll make that note in the Canvas site for this course before I offer it in March.  Saving money on the texts for the class is always welcome!

6. Benefits to the Library
Make connections with faculty
Good Public Relations

7. Other libraries

8. Beth Bernhardt Assistant Dean for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications University of North Carolina Greensboro