Access to Affordable Educational Resources

摘要

Academic libraries have traditionally avoided buying textbooks for general or reserves collections. Typically, students have been expected to buy textbooks. Over the course of a fouryear academic period, students may expect to spend about $4,000 on textbooks and supplies, according to the University of Georgia, for example (2020). For some students, these costs present challenges. To address those challenges, librarians, faculty, administrators, consortia, and publishers are developing alternatives to supplying textbooks and other course materials to students at low cost or no cost.