Textbook donations greatly appreciated

With the beginning of the fall 2010 semester fast approaching, the Stevens Library Committee would like to remind you of the library’s textbook collection and of how you can help make it useful to our students. This collection was started in spring 2009 with the goal of having at least one copy of each course textbook available in the library for students to use in-house. Currently, a number of professors supply copies of their course textbooks to this collection, and we are requesting that you donate extra copies of current textbooks or acceptable earlier editions of your course texts to this collection.

In recognition of your support of this effort, you will be given a receipt of the donation, and the library copy will be stamped as having been donated by you. If you would like more information about this initiative, or have any comments or concerns please contact Ourida Oubraham, the library director, at Ourida.Oubraham@stevens.edu or (201) 215-5411. She will also be happy to coordinate the collection of your books.

Thank you in advance for your consideration. The success of this program depends greatly on your contribution.

Textbook Drive

In order to improve the resources available to the student body, and to meet a rising demand among students, The Stevens Library Committee is trying to create a reserve of current textbooks used in Stevens’ classes.

Currently, a number of professors supply copies of their course textbooks to the library for students to reference. Our goal is to have at least one copy of each textbook from every course available to students in the library each semester. In order to accomplish this goal we are requesting that the Stevens community donate any extra copies of current textbooks or acceptable earlier editions of textbooks for current courses.

So far, the drive has received an outstanding response from the School of Systems and Enterprises, with Dr. Donald Merino being the first to respond to our call and dropping off two copies of his textbook at the library. Dr. Rashmi Jain has also done a great job helping out with this project, collecting 44 textbooks in total from her school. We'd like to thank both Dr. Merino and Dr. Jain sincerely for their support (and Dr. Jain's diligence!), and we'd like to call on the other members of the Stevens faculty to join in the drive. Please consider dropping off your extra texts at the library, or even better, ask around amongst your colleagues and see how many books you can collect! (The library would be happy to come pick up the books from your department, just drop us an e-mail at library@stevens.edu and let us know when and where we can come get them.)

Thanks so much from us, and from the students, for all your help!