Faculty, are you looking for ways to increase access and reduce costs to course materials for students? Library Services and its partners can help provide copies or expand access to course materials in a variety of ways from course reserves to open educational resources! Please ask us to learn more!
Placing Course Materials in the Library
Make course materials available in the library through Library Course Reserves or the Maverick Textbook Reserve Program. A complete list of course materials from these two programs can be found on the library’s Textbooks & Course Reserves Page.
- Library Course Reserves
This course reserve collection includes both library-owned materials and personal materials in either print or electronic formats. See our page on Course Reserves to learn more.
- Maverick Textbook Reserve Program
A longstanding program under the combined efforts of Student Government, the Maverick Book Store, and Library Services, this service provides textbooks for undergraduate classes with high enrollment numbers for short term checkout from the library. See our page on the Maverick Textbook Reserve Program to learn more.
Requesting Library Materials
Contact a subject specific librarian to request books and eBooks to use as course materials or to supplement main course materials. Please note that not all resources are available for the library to purchase, and there may be additional restrictions on using library eBooks. See our page on Using Library Owned eBooks to learn more.
Using Library Journal Articles and/or Book Chapters
Many courses use journal articles or book chapters instead of or in addition to textbooks. If this is the case, we strongly encourage linking to journal articles and eBook chapters through D2L as a best practice rather than downloading the PDF and sharing it with students.
- Check out our how-to guide to learn more about creating proper links to library content .
- Need help curating a list of articles or tracking down a difficult source that could work as course readings? Librarians are happy to help search for and find great resources that help the students!
Using Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission for open use. OERs can take on many forms from textbooks, course packets, games, supplemental or ancillary materials - anything that is used to support access to knowledge or materials used for educational purposes. OERs can include materials that one adapts or remixes from other open sources, materials found in the public domain, or materials that are one creates and releases with an open license. Librarians can help in many ways! Designing your own OERs? Don't forget to make the open content ACCESSIBLE!
These are just some of the ways that the library can help. To learn more, please contact us.
