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At the beginning of each semester, and especially at the beginning of the academic year, the Library puts all the books that it will be discarding out on tables, for any interested person to take. These tables hold an assortment of all kinds of things, and sometimes include stacks of textbooks -- equivalent to gold bricks to the wise student.
How do dozens of valuable, usable textbooks end up on the discard pile? Sometimes the books really are out of date, and its it's time to get rid of them. But very often, and in the cases most valuable to students, the textbook is the second-to-last edition of a textbook that just got revised, and the professor(s) of the relevant course is /are demanding that students use the most updated version. In these cases, the coordinator of the 1914 Library always asks the instructors if the editions she has on hand will be usable, and in if they say yes, she'll loan what she has.
But sometimes a professor will insist that students must have the new edition. Some professors have even demanded that the 1914 Library refrain from lending what they have at all, under pain of suit. This leads to the discards. By all means, if you feel you need to be on the cutting edge of, say, introductory-level [[psychology]], go ahead and shell out $110 for the latest version of the [[Easy_Classes#PSYC_101|PSYC 101]] text. But if you can handle the rearrangement of a few page numbers and maybe some photocopying time in [[Schow Library|Schow]], check the free books tables early and often.
===Get Your Voucher===
Even if you wake up at 2 pm on opening day and your lazy ass gets down there to find the shelves are empty except for our one million copies of Plato's ''The Republic,'' the library is not useless to you (if you're on financial aid). For every aid student there is a voucher in his or her name that can be redeemed at Water Street Books. There are two denominations of voucher; each semester you may use only one. Anything purchased with voucher money in any part becomes property of the 1914 Library -- so holster your highlighter.
'''$60 Voucher.''' Your $60 voucher may be used for $60 worth of books, for a single book or many. It must be used within a month, and any unused parts are completly lost.
'''Expensive Book Voucher.''' If and only if you are in a course requiring purchase of a book costing $100 or more, you may trade in your ''unusued'' $60 voucher for a $100 voucher to be used towards the purchase of that single book.
The $100 voucher only became available in Spring 2004. Credit for its existence goes to the efforts of Ali Moiz '06 on behalf of [[College Council]], and the cooperation of Paul Boyer of Financial Aid and Felicia Pharr. The generosity of Financial Aid in this form serves the needs of financial aid students and the 1914 Library, which most needs expensive textbooks for its collection, as they are used most widely and longest in Williams courses.
