Textbooks on Reserve
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For Spring 2021, the library will offer print textbooks for loan (with quarantine periods between borrowers) and also access to a digital short-term lending service called Limited Online Library Access (LOLA). We hope these options will provide you with access to the textbooks that you need while maintaining the health and safety of our staff and patrons during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch for our list of available titles (both for in-person loan and for LOLA and ebook digital access) to grow as we get closer to the start of Spring semester.
Students and faculty may use the Limited Online Library Access (LOLA) Lending Service form to make LOLA requests. Through this short-term lending service, MU scholars will be able to digitally access works held in the MUL physical collection remotely via Canvas. Most LOLA requests will be fulfilled within 3-5 business days, though more time may be needed depending on the nature of the work and the timing of the request. Generally, items will be made available via LOLA for circulation periods comparable to that of the physical item held in the MUL collection.
Here are are some other useful textbook resources:
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).
- 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).
- Donations of current textbooks by faculty and students are encouraged to expand the project (and stretch our library funds).
| Course | Author: Title | Edition |
|---|---|---|
| ART 181 | LAZZARI: EXPLORING ART: A GLOBAL, THEMATIC APPROACH | 5TH ED |
| ATH 175 | ROLAND: Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha | |
| ATH 185 | RALPH: RENEGADE DREAMS | |
| CMR 108 | BEATTY: INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS LAW | 6TH ED |
| CMR 401 | LUSSIER: LEADERSHIP | 6TH ED |
| ENT 497 | DOMINICK: TOOLS AND TACTICS OF DESIGN | 1ST ED |
| HST 198 | LOCKARD: SOCIETIES, NETWORKS, AND TRANSITIONS, VOLUME II: SINCE 1450 | 4TH ED |
| IDS 159 | WILLIAMS: IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS | |
| MBI 131 | MERRILL: INTRODUCTION TO EPIDEMIOLOGY | 8TH ED |
| PSY 112 | HOCK: FORTY STUDIES THAT CHANGED PSYCHOLOGY | 7TH ED |
Last updated 1-14-21
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).