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Popular Textbooks on Reserve That Are Also Available Online

Mike Waldman and Roshnara Kissoon have put together a list of textbooks from our print course reserve collection that are temporarily available freely online in the RedShelf and VitalSource e-textbook platforms through May 25. Please see the “Course Reserves and Textbooks” page on the library website for more details.

Finding Print Books and Other Physical Items on Reserve

  1. Go to the “Course Reserves and Textbook” page on the library website (mouse over the “Students” menu to get a shortcut link)
  2. Click the yellow “Search Course Reserves” button
  3. You should now be in the “Reserves” module in OneSearch. Search by title, author, course number (e.g., 3040), or instructor name.
  4. Use the facets if needed to filter your results

OneSearch--facets for reserve module results

OneSearch: The New Way to Find Physical Items on Reserve

Monique Prince has news detailing a new, improved way to find print books and other physical items on reserve:

OneSearch now offers the opportunity to search for course reserve textbooks in a variety of ways, including by discipline, course number, faculty name, and book title. From the OneSearch interface, users can select “Reserves” to narrow their search to Reserve textbooks at Baruch. Typing in a course number or faculty name initiates a keyword search to get started, and then there are options on the left of the screen which enables you to narrow your search for more precise results.

Click on “Details” to identify the course number if that is unknown. Click on see whether it is available to borrow (it is, if you see “Available” and under “Status” you see “Look on Shelf”).

One great new feature is the “Browse Shelf” capability, which looks for books at Baruch with similar call numbers. This is especially helpful if students would be interested in an older edition of the book, located in the stacks and available for an extended loan. It can also be helpful if you want to see what other books with similar subjects might be available.

Hopefully this will be a helpful way of assisting students to see exactly what is on reserve for their course. Keep in mind that there is a difference between general course textbooks and textbooks that are reserved for a specific professor’s course. So, if Intermediate Accounting is used by multiple sections of ACC 3000, you will not also find it listed by searching for a professor’s name unless they specifically requested it. You could find it by doing a keyword search for the discipline, course number, or book title.