Atlantic Cape Libraries' Blog

Libraries Awarded Grant to Expand Textbook Collection

The Atlantic Cape Libraries are expanding the Textbooks on Reserve collection this coming academic year thanks to a recently awarded grant from LibraryLinkNJ, a New Jersey library cooperative funded by the New Jersey State Library. The Textbooks on Reserve collection contains textbooks currently used in Atlantic Cape courses. Students can use the textbooks in the library to complete assignments and course readings. Students cannot take these textbooks home, but many students find that using a reserve textbook in one of the library’s study rooms is an effective way to study course material and save a significant amount of money.

The $5,000 grant is part of LibraryLinkNJ’s Level Up Your Library mini-grant program which seeks to improve existing programs and activities in New Jersey’s public, academic, and school libraries. The Atlantic Cape Libraries’ proposal to use grant funds to acquire textbooks that are often too expensive for the library to obtain was selected for funding from over 100 submitted applications. The cash infusion enabled the library to expand their textbook coverage from 80 textbook titles serving 92 different courses to 115 titles serving 135 courses. Many of the newly added textbooks included some of the most expensive textbooks used on campus that had long been outside of the libraries’ financial means.

The Textbooks on Reserve collection is one of the most popular collections in the Atlantic Cape Libraries accounting for more than 10% of the libraries’ overall circulation. The collection serves as another way that Atlantic Cape is knocking down barriers and making education affordable for its students.

To see a list of available titles, visit: tinyurl.com/AtlanticCapeReserves

Questions? Stop in the library or email us at library@atlanticcape.edu