{"id":4604,"date":"2018-11-05T11:21:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2018-11-05T14:52:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T19:52:28","slug":"why-are-there-only-2-hr-loaner-text-books-why-cant-bc-purchase-more-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/11\/05\/why-are-there-only-2-hr-loaner-text-books-why-cant-bc-purchase-more-copies\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are there only 2 hr loaner text books. Why can&#8217;t BC purchase more copies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4593\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/110518-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4593\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/110518-14-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Why are there only 2 hr loaner text books. Why can't BC purchase more copies?\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/110518-14-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/110518-14-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/110518-14-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/110518-14.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why are there only 2 hr loaner text books. Why can&#8217;t BC purchase more copies?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Materials on Course Reserves circulate for 2 hours because they are high-demand items that are set aside for class reading at faculty members\u2019 request. The number of copies the libraries can purchase is limited by budgetary, space and copyright restrictions. What the BC Libraries are doing to address this issue is prioritizing the purchasing of ebooks for Course Reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials on Course Reserves circulate for 2 hours because they are high-demand items that are set aside for class reading at faculty members\u2019 request. The number of copies the libraries can purchase is limited by budgetary, space and copyright restrictions. What the BC Libraries are doing to address this issue is prioritizing the purchasing of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/11\/05\/why-are-there-only-2-hr-loaner-text-books-why-cant-bc-purchase-more-copies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why are there only 2 hr loaner text books. Why can&#8217;t BC purchase more copies?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,14],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-boston-college","tag-oneill-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4640,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}