Collaboration to serve military-affiliated students: A textbooks reserves project at the University of Memphis

Rachel Scott, Sydnie Roberts, Shelia Gaines

Abstract

Military-affiliated students are a diverse campus constituency and may encounter a number of obstacles to their academic success. At the University of Memphis (UM), the Veteran and Military Student Services (VMSS) center provides a wide-ranging suite of services to engage and support military-affiliated students. This article describes how two UM departments, the University Libraries and VMSS, collaborated to facilitate the discovery and circulation of an existing collection of textbooks for military-affiliated students.

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