 Hi, this is Jessica Hagman at Alden Library. In this video, I'm going to show you how to find out if you can get your textbook from the library. We've got a couple of different ways you can get textbooks, including textbooks on reserve that you can check out from the fourth floor desk for two hours, books you can check out from the stacks or find as ebooks, and books you can borrow from another school in Ohio through OhioLink. Let's take a look at our reserves books first. You'll need to know the name of your professor or course to look for reserve books. If you go to our website at www.ohio.edu slash library, you can click on course reserves and then enter your course code and number or your professor's name. Let's see if we have the book for math 1200. Enter the course code and number and click search. Then I'll choose the first section listed since I'm not at Lancaster. And then I see that there is a copy of college algebra essentials on reserve. I can check this out from the fourth floor desk for two hours. Another option for finding textbooks is to see if there's a copy in the stacks or an ebook version. You'll need the title or ISBN number of your book. You can usually find this info in your syllabus on Blackboard or on the course offerings page. So I'm going to look for Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach. By choosing a title search, entering the title and clicking search. Sometimes you'll get related titles, but I know I want number three. But again, you'll see we have a couple of options for this title. If I click on this title, I can see that we have a copy in the six floor stacks. So I could use the call number to find this book upstairs. If our copy was checked out, I could also use the purple request button to ask for the copy that is at Lancaster. And then I'd have a copy in a few days. I can also go back to the page that listed all the different copies and see that in this case we have an ebook version of this title. The way you access the ebook will depend on the platform it's on. But in this case, clicking the ebook link takes me to a database, where I can read the book as a PDF or EPUB file. So with this book you may actually have a couple of different options to get a copy from the Ohio University Libraries. But if you find yourself in a case where there isn't a copy available, you should also check OhioLink. If I go back to my search results page, I see a button that says search OhioLink. This will let me see if there are any other schools in the state with a copy of the book I need. In this case, there are many copies of this book at other schools in the state. So all I need to do is click on the green request button. Once I choose OhioU, then all I need to do is enter my Ohio ID and password and choose a pickup location. OhioLink books usually arrive in three to five business days. We'll send you an email when the book is ready. If you've got any questions about finding textbooks, you can stop by the floor floor desk or use our chat box to ask a librarian.