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Textbook Affordability Project
Recently, Florida law has required academic institutions to comply with new textbook selection and reporting requirements in order to combat high costs to students. In 2009, the textbook affordability initiative began at USF with a committee survey about awareness of textbook costs. From here, the Textbook Affordability Project (TAP) was created to disperse information to both faculty and students about textbook costs. Currently, the USF Tampa Library facilitates three main activities in order to promote textbook affordability: recommendations to faculty, Course Reserves, and the E-books for the Classroom database. During the early years of TAP, staff was limited to two persons. As of 2018, over 6 full-time staff are dedicated to the Textbook Affordability project. TAP strives to provide affordable textbook options to students, and encourages professors to seek out more affordable options for their courses.


 * Ebooks for the Classroom+ - As part of its efforts to promote textbook affordability, TAP uses Ebooks for the Classroom to encourage the use of library-licensed resources in courses. This database was created in 2017, and serves the entire USF system. Within the database, professors can adopt Ebooks that the library has purchased rights to, so that students can access these books for free. This collection has contributed greatly to the efforts of the TAP initiative.

History
The Civil Rights Movement began slowly in the South, especially in Mississippi. Before 1955, it was mostly isolated protests against the obstruction of voting rights for black Americans. Groups formed during this time period include the Mississippi Progressive Voters' League and the Regional Council of Negro Leadership. In the 1960s, more youths began to participate in the Civil Rights Movement.

Read in
The nine students began to search for source materials for class assignments, and sat down in the library and began to read. At this time, the library staff called the police.

That following day, on March 28th, the nine students were released on one-thousand dollar bond. .

Protests
The day after the Read-In, fifty students from Jackson State College picketed the arrest of the Tougaloo Nine prior to their release. Police utilized clubs and dogs against the students in order to disband the protest. The next day, March 29th, over one hundred black community members congregated outside of the courthouse to show support for the Nine.

Reverend S. Leon Whitney, a pastor of Farish Street Baptist Church, was among those bitten by police dogs.

Aftermath
In protest of the sentencing and the brutality of police towards bystanders, a meeting was held at a local Masonic Temple, at which Julie Wright encourage other black community members to participate in a “No Buying Campaign.” This campaign saw the successful boycotting of white business that discriminated against black people, and chain stores reportedly lost $49,225 in sales tax revenues.