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Help Lower Textbook Costs for Students

Are you an instructor who’s concerned about the impact of high textbook costs on your students?

Open Textbook

Did You Know…

  • The high cost of some course materials can impede students’ academic success.
  • The cost of textbooks is rising at a rate of 4 times inflation.
  • Seven out of 10 students don’t purchase a required textbook during their academic career because of cost.
  • Sixty percent of students have delayed purchasing textbooks until they’ve received their financial aid.

Open Textbooks

Open textbooks can help alleviate the burden of textbook costs for students and provide faculty with content that can be customized for their course. Open textbooks are full, real textbooks, used by many faculty across the country, and licensed to be freely used, edited, and distributed.

What You Can Do

Attend Open Oregon’s virtual Open Textbook Workshops. The one-hour session will provide information about open textbooks and how to find discipline-specific titles. After the workshop you can earn $200-$300 by writing a review of an open textbook or other open materials. If you have already attended a past workshop and want to write another review, contact Sue Kunda to request a new survey link.

Campus Printing FAQ

library printers

How much does printing cost? A single black and white page (one side) printout costs 1 print credit. A single color page (one side) printout costs 5 print credits. Students receive 225 print credits per term.

How do I know how many print credits I have? Log in to the WOU Portal and your balance will be displayed on your homepage.

How do I buy more print credits? Purchase additional credits through WolfWeb under the Student Menu. They start at 50 credits for $2.50 and go up from there. When you buy additional credits they are immediately available for use.

What if I don’t use all of my print credits? Whatever credits you don’t use roll over to the next term. However, accounts are zeroed out before each Fall term begins.

Sign up to get texts from the library

Have you ever wished the library would just text you when the items you order through Summit or interlibrary loan are ready to pick up? If so, you’re in luck because now we can!

To sign up for texts from Hamersly:

  1.  Log into your My Account in Primo
  2.  Click on Personal Settings–>Edit
  3. Select the checkbox next to the ‘SMS Wanted’ field and enter your phone number in the ‘SMS Number’ field.
  4. Click Save Changes, and that’s it! You will now get text notifications from the library. If you ever want to stop getting texts, just follow the same process and uncheck the box.

Please note: this is an opt-in service and is in addition to the current email notification system, not in place of it.

Hotspot Checkout

WOU’s Library lends a limited number of hotspots to facilitate remote coursework.

As with all other materials available from the library, WOU covers the cost of these hotspots, with no expense passed on to the borrower. 

However, hotspot borrowing through the library is limited to students who are Pell Grant- or Tuition Equity-eligible. WOU’s Office of Financial Aid verifies eligibility prior to the library lending the hotspot. In addition, residents of WOU Housing are ineligible to borrow hotspots.

We have hotspots on the T-Mobile and Verizon networks. Check both services’ coverage maps for your location. Past bad experience with a network does not necessarily reflect current coverage. 

 See more Hotspots FAQ.

Request a hotspot with the form below. After you submit the form, WOU Housing and Financial Aid are automatically notified. When your eligibility is confirmed, you’ll get email from libweb@wou.edu with instructions. 

Don’t see the form? Click on the title or the + on the right side, or open it in a new window. 

Hotspot Checkout Request Form

Need help? There’s a tutor in the library for that.

There is lots of tutoring available in the library. Hours and location vary, see “Tutoring Hours”————–>

–>The Writing Center: Sun-Thurs from 7-10pm in Room 116; any course and instruction level.

–>The Math Center: varying times in Room 228; both Math and non-Math courses like statistics.

–>The Science Learning Center: varying times in Room 124; Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Earth Science courses.

–>The English Tutoring Center: Mon-Thurs from 7-10pm in Room 228; help for English language learners with reading, listening to, and/or speaking.

–>The Digital Media Center: Hours vary by term, on the 2nd floor of the library; technology-related projects and class assignments.

 

All about textbooks

textbooksCheck out our Textbooks Guide for options to buy, rent, and borrow textbooks for your classes this term.

You’ll also find info about where to sell your textbooks back once you’re done with them.

Hamersly’s winter term newsletter is here!

Hamersly Library skylineDid you know that the library publishes a newsletter each term? It is always full of helpful information and reminders about your library.

This term’s issue includes information about our new art exhibits, new equipment available for checkout, library services at the new WOU Salem campus, WOU’s textbook affordability initiative, and more. You’ll also find an interesting history of the library at WOU, a list of new books that have been added to the library’s collections, and even a review of one of the new books in our Recreational Collection. Read the newsletter here.

The Press cafe’s fall term hours

The Press is open the following hours for fall term. Come get your Starbucks coffee and goodies!

the press operating hours

  • MONDAY – THURSDAY:  8am-8pm
  • FRIDAY:  8am-3pm
  • CLOSED SATURDAY & SUNDAY

EasyBib access gone as of August 31st

EasyBib phased out its institutional accounts as of Aug. 31st, which means that you are no longer able to access any citations, bibliographies, or other data in your EasyBib account.

The library now subscribes to Noodle Tools for citation management.