Textbooks on Reserve

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The Library has provided textbooks on reserve for a selection of courses offered at Middletown since 2006. Below is the list of courses which currently have textbooks available on reserve or as licensed e-books. The items highlighted in red with white text were added through the library's Inclusive Excellence Textbook on Reserve initiative. The items highlighted in gold with black text are textbooks for which we have multiple copies and we loan the textbooks for an entire semester (these were added thanks to grants earned by faculty in the associated academic department).

  • Each textbook may be checked out for one day.
  • Only one copy of each textbook is available in most cases.
  • The textbooks are used for all sections of the courses offered at Middletown unless otherwise noted.
  • Donations of current textbooks by faculty and students are encouraged to expand the project (and stretch our library funds).

Faculty members, please use our Reserve Request Form to add a textbook on reserve to our collection. If it is not already owned by Miami University Libraries, we will purchase a copy! You can check on that using our Books & More catalog.

Here are are some other useful textbook resources:

Course Author: Title Edition
ATH 155 Lavenda: Anthropology 5th ed.
BIO 115/116 OPENSTAX BIOLOGY, VOL 1 & 2 (Online) 2ND ED
BIO 115/116 OPENSTAX BIOLOGY, VOL 1 (Print) 2ND ED
BIO 115/116 OPENSTAX BIOLOGY, VOL 2 (Print) 2ND ED
BIO 121 WITTGOTT: ESSENTIAL ENVIRONMENT 6TH ED
BIO 171/172 MARIEB: HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 11TH ED
BIO 171/172 MARIEB: HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY MANUAL 13TH ED
CMR 101/107 WARREN: FINANCIAL AND MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING 14TH ED
CMR 105 KERIN: MARKETING: THE CORE 6TH ED
CMR 108 BEATTY: INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS LAW 7TH ED
CMR 207 WARREN: FINANCIAL AND MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING 14TH ED
CMR 242 MARIOTTI: ENTREPRENEURSHIP 5TH ED
CMR 244 PENG: GLOBAL 4TH
CMR 302 BERMAN: FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE 2ND ED
CMR 401 LUSSIER: LEADERSHIP 6TH ED
EDL 204 SOCIOCULTURAL STUDIES IN EDUCATION Fall 2023
EDP 201 O'DONNELL: EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 3RD ED
EDP 256 Friend: Special Education 5th ed.
FSW 261 MARRIAGES, FAMILIES, AND RELATIONSHIPS: MAKING CHOICES IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY 14TH ED
GEO 101 RUBENSTEIN: The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography 14TH ED
LIN 201 LANGUAGE FILES 12TH ED
MBI 111/161  COWAN: MICROBIOLOGY A SYSTEMS APPROACH 6TH ED
MBI 361  MERRILL: INTRODUCTION TO EPIDEMIOLOGY (Online) 8TH ED
MBI 361  MERRILL: INTRODUCTION TO EPIDEMIOLOGY (Print) 8TH ED
MUS 185 MINDTAP: WORLDS OF MUSIC, SHORTER VERSION 4TH ED
PHY 161/162 KNIGHT: COLLEGE PHYSICS 4TH ED
PSY 111 OPENSTAX: PSYCHOLOGY (Online) 2ND ED
PSY 111 OPENSTAX: PSYCHOLOGY (Print) 2ND ED
PSY 221 Myers: Social Psychology 14th ed.
PSY 231 Feldman: Discovering the Life Span 5th ed.
SPN 101/102, 111, 201/202   Blanco: Vistas 5th ed
STC 262 Wrench: Quantitative Research Methods for Communication 4th ed.
WGS 201 SHAW: GENDERED VOICES, FEMINIST VISIONS 8TH ED

 

Last updated 10-3-24

History and Purpose
In a collaborative effort, the Gardner-Harvey Library, Miami Middletown Student Government (MMSG), academic departments, and individual faculty members brought together, starting in Fall 2006, a reserve collection of textbooks for Miami Plan or other introductory courses offered at Miami University Middletown. The aim was and is to assist students who may not be able to afford the textbooks or who may be delayed in purchasing them, and to give all students in the courses an opportunity to make use of their required texts while on campus. Given the ever-rising costs of textbooks, this project is aimed at making these materials for learning as widely available as possible, which is certainly a part of the Library's mission. A bit more on our motivation can be found in this article.

The program grew tremendously in 2008-2009 thanks to a gift from Robert and Nita Driscoll. Robert was an active member of the Middletown community and a patron of the Gardner-Harvey Library for many years. Mrs. Driscoll made this gift to the campus in memory and continuation of his efforts to support education. Textbooks have certainly not become cheaper, and this gift extends our reach to serve students.

We have continued to purchase textbooks each semester, usually having a collection of approximately 100 textbooks available to cover roughly 100 Middletown courses. Once the textbooks are not used by students in courses at Middletown, we add them to the library's general collection, where they are borrowed by students and faculty in OhioLINK (sometimes for many semesters after they are last used on campus).