Visit www.universityninja.com for more tutorials Why buy a textbook when the library is free? The library has been around for hundreds of years, yet as time went by I think we've used it less and less. It's funny though, while going to college I noticed that many students never use the library for its actual intended use. Many students just go their study or rather yet, sleep. But the crown jewel of the library, is every piece of literature and research papers that exist there. This also includes the schools subscriptions to thousands of scholarly journals accessible to students who want to do research. Well in this tutorial, I'll have you back in the library in no time. Whether you'll use the library to do your own self-research is up to you. Things to consider... 1. Your professor usually puts one copy of the class textbook as reference material in the library. This allows a student to check the book out for about an hours time until they have to return it to the desk. This isn't the best compromise in your education, but you better believe that you'll use that 1 hour of time more efficiently than if you owned the book and had hours to spend reading it. 2. Does the professor allow you to use an older edition of the textbook? If the professor lets you use an older edition, you might get away with checking out the older edition and using that as your home textbook. If you need to see if their are new problems on the later edition, just go to the library and borrow the one ...
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