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===A little bit more detail:===
Funded by the money allocated through the all campus vote on the $35,000 question and generous contributions by the Dean’s Office and the Office of the Vice President for Strategic Planning and Institutional Diversity, this program places textbooks on permanent reserve in Sawyer and Schow. All students can use the textbooks during library hours. However, the textbooks must remain in the library. In addition to the new textbooks purchased for this program, the newly created permanent reserve also contains textbooks generously donated by individual professors. See below and the College Council website for more information about this program and an explanation of how the books were selected. Look Follow the below link to see if this free program provides textbooks for your classes.
===Full explanation of the process undertaken to create the program:===
The majority of the books in this program were purchased through money retrieved by the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 College Council Treasurers. In the Fall, the student body voted in an all-campus referendum to allocate $17,500 of that retrieved money to a 1914 Library program capable of benefiting all students on campus (the campus voted to allocate the other half of the money to ACE concerts). Working within that mandate, CC held several discussions and worked with interested parties to imagine, design and implement this new program. Once CC settled upon this use of the money, it presented it to members of the administration and received generous donations from the Dean's Office and the Office of the Vice President for Strategic Planning and Institutional Diversity. Eager to maximize the effectiveness of this program and recognizing that the textbooks required for a given class change over time, CC decided to allocate the funds dedicated to this program over two periods. Thus, half of the money allocated from CC to this program was spent to purchase books now and the other half will be spent in either one year or two years (the exact date will be determined by future College Councils). Since the money allocated from the offices listed above was given for this fiscal year, all of that money was spent in this period. Thus, approximately $9,500 has been spent on this program to date and the remaining $8,750 is being held in reserve to fund the second phase of the program.
