From the desk of the Roundup: Editorial

-Corrections-

Volume 130, Issue 5:

News 3:

The photo caption was meant to describe a photo illustration rather than actual events.

Campus Life 5:

Layla Calderon's name was misspelled in the Streetbeat.

Sports 7:

Jesse Bertel’s name was misspelled in the byline and in the email for the baseball story.

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Many students just aren’t able to afford textbooks. With a regular semester class only being about four months long and a winter or summer session being about four or eight weeks, priorities sometimes need to be evaluated on whether it’s worth spending money on a book that isn’t going to be used again. Often, a textbook is only needed for tests or for a couple of assignments. Although the library offers a limited amount of reserved textbooks available for a two hour check out, there should be online versions of textbooks that students can access at any time.

Just like the school databases being accessible off campus, if online copies were made available, students who are in need of the textbook at home during the weekend could check out the book despite the library being closed.

To ensure that students aren’t holding onto the textbooks, the time limit doesn’t have to be raised either. The library can have an automated system that returns the textbook into the system or passes it on to the next student who is on hold.

Speaking of holds, occasionally when a student goes to the reserve desk, they find that the book they needed isn’t available anymore.

Students don’t have time to keep checking to see if the book is back. There should be something like a virtual line that students can place themselves on as the next person who gets to check out the book.

If the library can’t offer online textbooks, then they should have more than two physical copies and there should be a way for students to check them out for 24 hours. A small fee, perhaps $2, can be charged for those who