The MTSU library plays a significant role in supporting student success through its various offerings in affordability initiatives: the Library Textbook Program, Open Educational Resources, and Course Reserves. Our affordability initiatives allow students to access required textbooks and materials without purchasing them. Students can complete assignments without incurring costs associated with buying or renting textbooks.
Walker Library has developed a textbook affordability collection called the Library Textbook Program (LTP) to help students with the rising cost of textbooks. This collection of textbooks:
Consists mainly of General Education courses with a large enrollment (Over 500 students enrolled)
Can be checked out for in-library use only, 3 hours at a time
Contains some eBooks, usually for literary works
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission for open use. Generally, this permission is granted by the use of an open license (for example, Creative Commons licenses) which allows anyone to freely use, adapt and share the resource—anytime, anywhere."--Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).
Course Reserves are materials for your class that have been set aside at the library for students to borrow for free, reducing the number of materials that must be student-purchased each semester. Physical course reserves, such as books and DVDs, are located on the first floor of Walker Library.
Instructors may choose to place books, media, articles, and more onto Course Reserves.
