Textbook Lending
In Fall 2024, Woodruff Library Course Reserves will offer short-term loans of textbooks required for large Emory College courses. This pilot is jointly funded by Emory First and Emory Libraries.
How can I find out which textbooks are available?
Click here to see which textbooks are currently available as part of Woodruff Library’s Textbook Lending pilot. More are being added through the beginning of the semester!
What textbooks are included?
The following criteria are in place for the textbook lending pilot:
- For 100- and 200-level Emory College courses with Maximum Enrollments of 75 or more students
- Where textbook information has been made available to the library (via Emory Barnes & Noble or instructors/departments)
- Mostly physical/printed textbooks will be available, though eBooks will be included when library licensing is available
- Note that most textbook publishers do not make digital versions of their textbooks available to libraries
- Two to six physical copies of required textbooks will be available for most eligible courses, depending on overall enrollment
- Only one copy may be available if sections of a course require different textbooks, depending on section enrollment
How long can textbooks be checked out?
Textbook Lending items can be checked out for a loan-period of 3 hours. Due to anticipated high demand, textbooks are not renewable or requestable online.
Where can textbooks be checked out?
Textbook Lending items can be checked out at the Woodruff Library Service Desk (2nd Floor)
What if I don't see my textbook?
If you think your Emory College course and textbook meet the criteria for inclusion in the Textbook Lending pilot (see above), please email reserves@emory.edu with course and textbook information. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can. We appreciate your help to include all eligible courses and textbooks in this pilot program.
How does the Libraries' pilot textbook lending program relate to other initiatives?
We hope that Woodruff Library’s new Textbook Lending pilot, with currently required textbooks for large Emory College courses, will complement other affordable textbook initiatives, including FLIP’s collection at the Bread Coffee House, enhancing student access to the textbooks they need to succeed at Emory.The new Woodruff Library Textbook Lending program supersedes the First-Generation Low-Income Partnership (FLIP) book collection that became part of the library’s Course Reserves in 2017. Prior to that, FLIP circulated its donation-based collection from space in the former Dobbs University Center (DUC). FLIP now has a more recent collection of donated books available at the Bread Coffee House.