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.
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).
- 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).
- Miami University Online Bookstore - check to see which books are required for your courses.
- OhioLINK Central Catalog - search to see if you can borrow a textbook from an OhioLINK library.
- Open Textbook Collections - affordable alternatives to textbooks exist in open access textbooks and other materials (let your faculty member know).
| Course | Author: Title | Edition |
|---|---|---|
| APC 201 | WRIGHT: HEALTH COMMUNICATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY | 2ND ED |
| ART 181 | LAZZARI: EXPLORING ART: A GLOBAL, THEMATIC APPROACH | 5TH ED |
| ART 256 | LIDWELL: UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN | 2010 ED |
| ATH 175 | ROLAND: Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha | |
| 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 161 | OPENSTAX ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY (Online) | 1ST ED |
| BIO 161 | OPENSTAX ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY (Print) | 1ST ED |
| BIO 171/172 | MARIEB: HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY | 11TH ED |
| BIO 171/172 | MARIEB: HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY MANUAL | 13TH ED |
| BIS 201 | REPKO: INTRODUCTION TO INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES | |
| CIT 262 | BRINKMAN: ETHICS IN A COMPUTING CULTURE | |
| CJS 211 | NOVAK: POLICE & SOCIETY | 8TH ED |
| CJS 235 | SAFERSTEIN: CRIMINALISTICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC SCIENCE | 12TH 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 | 6TH ED |
| CMR 181 | RUTKOSKY: MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 | 2019 |
| CMR 207 | WARREN: FINANCIAL AND MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING | 14TH ED |
| CMR 224 | STANFIELD: ESSENTIAL MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY | 5TH ED |
| CMR 242 | MARIOTTI: ENTREPRENEURSHIP | 4TH ED |
| CMR 244 | PENG: GLOBAL | 4TH |
| CMR 263 | O'GUINN: PROMO2 | 2ND ED |
| CMR 282 | DAVIDSON: MICROSOFT EXCEL 365 | 2019 |
| CMR 302 | BERMAN: FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE | 2ND ED |
| CMR 401 | LUSSIER: LEADERSHIP | 6TH ED |
| EDP 201 | O'DONNELL: EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY | 3RD ED |
| EDT 181/182 | HEWITT: CONCEPTUAL PHYSICAL SCIENCE | 6TH ED |
| EDT 190 | FRASER: TEACH | 2ND ED |
| GEO 101 | RUBENSTEIN: The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography | 13TH ED |
| HST 197 | LOCKARD: SOCIETIES, NETWORKS, AND TRANSITIONS, VOLUME I: TO 1500: A GLOBAL HISTORY | 4TH ED |
| HST 296 | LOCKARD: SOCIETIES, NETWORKS, AND TRANSITIONS, VOLUME II: SINCE 1450: A GLOBAL HISTORY | 4TH ED |
| IDS 159 | TAKAKI: A DIFFERENT MIRROR | REV ED |
| IDS 159 | HEUBERGGER: CULTURAL DIVERSITY: BUILDING SKILLS FOR AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, AND APPLICATION | 3RD ED |
| IDS 159 | WILLIAMS: IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS | |
| 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 |
| PHY 101 | HEWITT: CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS | 12TH ED |
| PHY 121 | PRIEST: ENERGY: PRINCIPLES, PROBLEMS, ALTERNATIVES | 7TH ED |
| PSY 111 | OPENSTAX: PSYCHOLOGY (Online) | 2ND ED |
| PSY 112 | HOCK: FORTY STUDIES THAT CHANGED PSYCHOLOGY | 7TH ED |
| WGS 201 | SHAW: GENDERED VOICES, FEMINIST VISIONS | 7TH ED |
Last updated 2-15-22
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).