Students should make sure they have good reliable access to all the textbooks required for their courses.

Buying textbooks at the John Jay College bookstore:
The College bookstore, run by Barnes & Noble, is at 841 Tenth Avenue, at 56th street (Westport Building). You can search for textbooks by course, and order books online at http://jjay.bncollege.com

Buying textbooks from other online stores:
Popular (but not the only) sites for buying new and used textbooks:
www.amazon.com
www.barnesandnoble.com
www.borders.com

Online textbooks:
Some textbook publisher offer online textbooks. Sites include:
www.coursesmart.com

Renting textbooks:
Recently, some online companies have started renting textbooks. They include
www.chegg.com
www.collegebookrenter.com

Borrowing textbooks from the Library:
Thanks to the Chancellor's Textbook Initiative, the Library has a new textbook collection! Books in our textbook collection are kept at the Reserve Desk on the lower floor of the library, and can be borrowed for up to 3 hours. See if your textbook is available to be borrowed by searching the title in CUNY+, the Library catalog, here: