{"id":613,"date":"2016-01-04T14:37:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T23:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/?p=613"},"modified":"2016-01-04T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T23:37:13","slug":"got-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/2016\/01\/04\/got-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Textbooks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, no actually.\u00a0 The Consortium Library does not purchase textbooks for classes.\u00a0 Luckily, you have some alternatives:<\/p>\n<p>1) Stop by the Library&#8217;s circulation desk to see if the book for your class has been put on reserve by your professor. Make sure you know the instructor&#8217;s last name and the title of the item. Or you can check for yourself by going to <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/services\/course_reserves.php\">Course Reserves<\/a>\u00a0and looking for the course by instructor last name, course name, or course ID.<\/p>\n<p>2) Check if you are able to rent the textbook through the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bookstore.uaa.alaska.edu\/UAA1\/SiteText.aspx?id=6205\">UAA Campus Bookstore\u00a0<\/a>or purchase a used copy.<\/p>\n<p>3) Try one of the websites listed in our\u00a0<a title=\"Textbook guide\" href=\"http:\/\/libguides.consortiumlibrary.org\/content.php?pid=87849\">Textbook guide\u00a0<\/a>to rent, download, purchase used, or access an open textbook.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with the spring semester!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, no actually.\u00a0 The Consortium Library does not purchase textbooks for classes.\u00a0 Luckily, you have some alternatives: 1) Stop by the Library&#8217;s circulation desk to see if the book for your class has been put on reserve by your professor. Make sure you know the instructor&#8217;s last name and the title of the item. Or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}