{"id":867,"date":"2024-01-04T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/library\/?page_id=867"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:58:55","slug":"etextbooks-for-course-reserves","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/library\/etextbooks-for-course-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Do We Have Your Textbooks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <strong>Course Reserves \/ E-textbooks in the Library<\/strong> service is a cost-savings measure offering students an alternative to purchasing textbooks.<\/p>\n<table class=\"alignright\" style=\"height: 173px;max-width: 34.0909%;border-collapse: collapse\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 34px\">\n<td style=\"max-width: 100%;height: 34px\">\n<p class=\"small\">How to Save Money on Textbooks<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">If none of your textbooks are on course reserves, this <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.bemidjistate.edu\/c.php?g=1371070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">guide<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a> may help you find alternatives to purchasing your textbooks.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>What does it involve? We reach out to professors who are interested in helping students save money. If their course textbooks are available for the library to purchase as an e-textbook, we do so. If the textbook is not available to the library electronically, we are occasionally able to purchase the print\/physical edition for Course Reserves.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Please note: Our holdings only reflect a small percentage of course textbooks, but we hope to continue to grow this project. Access the current textbook list here:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mnpals-bsu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/collectionDiscovery?vid=01MNPALS_BSU:BSU&amp;collectionId=81105323910004270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Textbooks Available Through the Library<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>For help and further info accessing the library&rsquo;s E-textbooks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.bemidjistate.edu\/ebooks_helpguide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">General help guide for accessing e-books<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For faculty interested in finding an e-textbook through the library for their courses:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.bemidjistate.edu\/c.php?g=1352588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">For Faculty &ndash; E-textbooks in the Library: a guide for searching &amp; browsing potential e-books for course use<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For faculty interested in placing material on Course Reserves, please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/library\/borrow-request\/course-reserves\/\">Course Reserves<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Course Reserves \/ E-textbooks in the Library service is a cost-savings measure offering students an alternative to purchasing textbooks. How to Save Money on Textbooks If none of your textbooks are on course reserves, this guide may help you find alternatives to purchasing your textbooks. What does it involve? We reach out to professors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-867","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}