Course Reserves - Students - Textbooks, Course Reserves and other Course Materials - Green River LibGuides at Green River College

Do you have my book in the Library?

Some, but not all textbooks are on Course Reserve. The Library relies on instructors to give the Library textbooks to lend to their students. Course Reserve materials are typically available for in-library checkout only.

If you would like to see if your class text is available in the library, you can look up Course Reserves using the link below.
You can also go to the Circulation Desk on the first floor of the Library and ask if your textbook is available to borrow

Some limited items may be available digitally-- if your Course Reserve text is available online, it will be inside your online course shell (typically in Canvas)-- please contact your instructor to see if this applies to your class.

Find Course Reserves

Instructors sometimes put materials and textbooks for their classes on "Course Reserves" in the Holman Library for students to borrow. Usually, these items can be used only inside the library and only for short periods of time.

Locate items put on "reserve" by Green River instructors by searching in the library's catalog. You can search by item title or the number of the class (example: TS 101). If you don't find your course listed in our Course Reserves search, ask your instructor to put your textbook on reserve.

Green River College Library: Course Reserves Locate items put on "reserve" by Green River instructors (such as books and textbooks). You can search by item title or the class subject ('Chemistry').

Use the link above to open the catalog and then follow the instructions written below - also shown in the image below.

Select "Course Reserves" from the drop-down menu
Search ADVANCED COURSE RESERVES by any one of these options:

Department - such as: Communication Studies
Course Name - such as: Interpersonal Communications
Subject - such as: Persuasion
Instructor - such as: Kelsey Denton or Denton Kelsey
[any combo of last and first names]
Title - such as: The Essential Guide to Intercultural Communication
Course ID - such as: CMST 210 CMST& 210
(you can search either with or without the "&" )

After a search, you can also browse and filter by Department, Course Name, Course ID, Subject, Instructor
Go to the Circulation Desk on the first floor of the library to borrow course reserves

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Important

Please Note:

The Library and the Bookstore are two separate entities! The library does not sell or rent books.
The Library does not buy current textbooks. To buy all required textbooks would exceed our entire library budget!
You can find some textbooks in the library. Check Course Reserves tab on the left.
You might also try a search of the entire book collection, using the search box below, as instructors occasionally assign an ebook (not on Course Reserve) in the library collection.
Textbooks currently required for courses cannot be interlibrary loaned.

Other useful sources

Searching outside the Holman Library

Public libraries often have very different collections than academic libraries, but sometimes you might just find what you need! Use the links below to try searching the public library for your textbook.