{"id":2483,"date":"2010-08-24T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:10:12","slug":"2483","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2010\/08\/24\/2483\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Weinberg Library have my textbook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Does the Weinberg Library have my textbook?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, The Weinberg Library does not\u00a0purchase textbooks. \u00a0Textbooks are\u00a0 updated much more frequently than\u00a0\u00a0the traditional library book, thus making them difficult to keep up-to-date.\u00a0\u00a0On the slim chance that we may have acquired the textbook for your class, it would be listed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/encore.scranton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Online Catalog<\/a>. \u00a0To check, simply access the \u201cOur Catalog\u201d link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scranton.edu\/library\" target=\"_blank\">Library\u2019s homepage<\/a> and type in the exact title of the textbook (editor or author is helpful, since most textbooks have generic names such as Fundamentals of Psychology, Microeconomics, etc.)\u00a0 Supplemental reading, such as a short story or essay may be found in collections of typical library books.\u00a0 Use the procedure\u00a0 listed above to see if the book is here.<\/p>\n<p>Length of loan can also be problematic, since books circulate for one month, and you need your textbook for an entire semester.<\/p>\n<p>You may also try <a href=\"http:\/\/palci.library.pitt.edu\/~ursa\/SCRANTON_login.html\" target=\"_blank\">E-Z Borrow (PALCI)<\/a>, a direct borrowing service found as a link from the Library\u2019s Homepage. \u00a0Your Royal Number is your login for this service.\u00a0 Check the holdings information on this search, since many libraries may have the book, but it could be already checked out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the Weinberg Library have my textbook? No, The Weinberg Library does not\u00a0purchase textbooks. \u00a0Textbooks are\u00a0 updated much more frequently than\u00a0\u00a0the traditional library book, thus making them difficult to keep up-to-date.\u00a0\u00a0On the slim chance that we may have acquired the textbook for your class, it would be listed in the Online Catalog. \u00a0To check, simply [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[502],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-technology","tag-textbooks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5990,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/5990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}