Textbooks

There are many ways to reduce costs and ensure accessibility, and you and your colleagues have helped in a variety of ways. We hope you continue to:

• Use common textbooks, where possible, for related courses or keep the same text for two or more years.

• Submit your course lists for required books, articles, and films and request the Library provide those materials as course e-reserves

• Create online readers that combine open educational resources with electronic resources licensed by the Library

• Use electronic and open content solutions available to students at low or no cost.

• Meet textbook adoption deadlines to allow timely course book availability and low-cost book options.

• Work with the Disabled Students’ Program to provide students with print disabilities a copy of the course textbook/reader in an accessible format (note: for conversion purposes, it is important that course-reader text be clean and legible).

• Meet textbook/reader identification deadlines to allow timely conversion and thus equal educational opportunity for students with print disabilities.

For more information on instructor accessibility responsibilities for faculty, visit the DSP website. For assistance in submitting textbook orders to the Cal Student Store, email text@berkeley.edu or call 510-291-4509