{"id":22325,"date":"2024-07-15T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/?post_type=oasis-news&#038;p=22325"},"modified":"2024-07-16T12:26:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T04:26:23","slug":"changes-to-textbook-services-at-curtin","status":"publish","type":"oasis-news","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/changes-to-textbook-services-at-curtin\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to get your textbooks this semester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With Booktopia falling into voluntary administration, you may be wondering where to purchase your textbooks this semester. The Student Guild has collated a list of options of where you can purchase or loan your unit resources from.<\/p>\n\n\n<section\n                class=\"block block--no-indent cards \"\n        data-segment=\"all\">\n    \n        <div class=\"card-grid\"\n         data-card-size=\"small\"         data-card-count=\"2\"\n         data-card-background=\"white\">\n                    <div id=\"where-to-buy-new-textbooks\" class=\"card\"\n         data-type=\"\"><div class=\"inner\"><div class=\"card__title\"><h2 class=\"h2\">Where to buy new textbooks<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"card__content\"><p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/theschoollocker.com.au\/\">The School Locker<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dymocks.com.au\/\">Dymocks<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/newedition.com.au\/\">New Edition<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitalsource.com\/en-au\/\">VitalSource<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kortext.com\/\">Kortext<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/\">Amazon<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>                    <div id=\"where-to-buy-second-hand-textbooks\" class=\"card\"\n         data-type=\"\"><div class=\"inner\"><div class=\"card__title\"><h2 class=\"h2\">Where to buy second-hand textbooks<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"card__content\"><p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marketplace\/\">Facebook\u00a0Marketplace<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gumtree.com.au\/\">Gumtree<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com.au\/\">eBay<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don&#8217;t want to purchase your textbooks?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Search for your textbook at the Library<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can use the Textbooks in the Library tool to find out if the Library has your textbooks for loan. This is a great alternative if you don&#8217;t want to outright purchase your textbooks for uni.<\/p>\n\n\n<section          class=\"block button-block\" role=\"complementary\" aria-label=\"Button block\"\n         data-segment=\"all\">\n\n        \n<div class=\"block-heading hidden\" data-segment=\"dom\">\n                                <h2 class=\"block-heading__title \" id=\"button-block\">Button block<\/h2>\n            \n                        \n                        \n                            <\/div>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.library.curtin.edu.au\/textbooks\/\" class=\"button button--deep-blue\" target=\"_top\">Search for your textbooks now<\/a>    \n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Score your textbook as a free ebook <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Library provides free access to a large number of ebooks and is an excellent alternative for sourcing your required textbooks for the semester. The easiest way to find ebooks is by searching for them by title through the Library Catalogue.<\/p>\n\n\n<section          class=\"block button-block\" role=\"complementary\" aria-label=\"Button block\"\n         data-segment=\"all\">\n\n        \n<div class=\"block-heading hidden\" data-segment=\"dom\">\n                                <h2 class=\"block-heading__title \" id=\"button-block\">Button block<\/h2>\n            \n                        \n                        \n                            <\/div>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/catalogue.curtin.edu.au\/discovery\/search?vid=61CUR_INST:CUR_ALMA\" class=\"button button--deep-blue\" target=\"_top\">Search the Library Catalogue<\/a>    \n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve collated a list of options of where you can purchase or access your textbooks from this semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4418,"featured_media":22329,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"5341,4621,7827,5346,8142,8307","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_oasis-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"oasis-categories":[146,147],"class_list":["post-22325","oasis-news","type-oasis-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","oasis-categories-student-life","oasis-categories-study-skills"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"banner":{"image":false}},"post_components":false},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SchoolLockerClosure-OASISNews-1000x500.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Rachelle","last_name":"Erzay","display_name":"Rachelle Erzay"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 17:40:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/22325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oasis-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/22325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-categories?post=22325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}