Gretchen Lieb

Behavior

College students reluctant and/or unable to buy their books

I'm an academic librarian at an "elite" liberal arts college up the river. This year, more often than ever before, I've had students ask for help getting their textbooks from the library. Today a student said she was planning to read Angela Davis' Women, Race & Class IN the bookstore, in order to avoid paying for it. I'm going to take my own copy tomorrow and share it, of course. But this has been happening every day, and is definitely a shift both in behavior and openness about being strapped for cash.