Textbooks on Reserve
Service Overview
Bizzell Memorial Library’s collection of selected reserve textbooks is one of many initiatives implemented to help alleviate the burden of textbook costs on students. Textbooks have been purchased primarily for general education courses that have the highest enrollments as well as courses that have comparatively high-cost textbooks. While OU Libraries is not able to purchase textbooks for every course, this approach reaches the greatest number students possible as well as assists those most impacted by textbook costs.
What We Offer
The collection offers selected required textbooks and scientific/graphing calculators that are available free of charge to OU students. They can be checked out for a four-hour loan period, with an option to renew for an additional four hours.
- Selected textbooks
- Scientific/graphing calculators
- Four-hour loan periods
- Free of charge for OU students
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Who Can Use This Service
This service is open to all OU students.
Locate a Textbook on Reserve
To determine if your textbook is available on reserve, use the library's catalog. Within the catalog, perform a title or author search for the desired textbook.
Check Out Textbooks and Calculators on Reserve
Textbooks and calculators on reserve are available at the main Circulation Desk near the west entrance of Bizzell Memorial Library on a first-come, first-served basis. You will need to present your ID to check out the items. They can be checked out for a four-hour loan period, with an option to renew for an additional four hours. Textbooks and calculators can be taken out of the building but must be returned before the library closes. Textbooks and calculators cannot be checked out for an entire semester. You may check out up to three items from Reserves at one time.
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FAQs
Reserve textbooks and calculators accrue fines at a rate of $1.00 per hour. If you lose or fail to return a textbook, you will be charged a $250 lost item fine plus a $25 processing fee. Textbooks and calculators are considered lost after 24 hours overdue. The lost item fine for textbooks is non-refundable.