Free access to calculators, scantrons and more!

To check-out a resource, you must leave your driver license at the AARC welcome desk while borrowing the resource.

General resources, like those listed below, must remain in the AARC. Quantities available for each item vary. 

  • Online bundle (headphones, adapter, webcam)
  • Group bundle (conference microphone, dongle, webcam)
  • Laptops
  • Wacom Tablets
  • Math shapes manipulatives 
  • Math snap-together counting blocks
  • Measurement sets (compass, protractor, rulers and drafting pencil)

Calculators may be borrowed to use during an exam; textbooks and science resources must remain in the AARC. Expand the appropriate section below for more details.

Calculators

Quantities available for each calculator option vary. You are permitted to check out a calculator for use during an exam.

  • BA II Plus Analysis
  • Basic 4-Function (EAI-80)
  • FX-300ES Plus 2nd Edition
  • TI-30XIIS
  • TI-30XS Multiview
  • TI-30Xa
  • TI-36x Pro
  • TI-81
  • TI-83 PLUS
  • TI-84 Plus
  • TI-84 Plus CE
  • TI-nspire cs
  • TI-nspire cx II

Textbooks

When borrowing a textbook, you must remain in the AARC. Textbooks can only be borrowed for two-hour periods. 

Some of the listed textbooks are reserved for tutor-use only. You can request your tutor use a specific textbook to assist you during your sessions.

Business courses
  • MKTG12 Principles of Marketing
  • BCOM10 Business Communication
  • BCOM11 Business Communication, Cengage
  • Principles of Economics, 8e
  • Fundamentals of Cost Accounting, McGraw Hill
  • Operations Management, 14e
  • Financial and Managerial Accounting, Information for Decisions, McGraw Hill
Statistics courses
  • Applied Statistics Course Note Packet
  • Statistics for managers using Microsoft Excel, 9e
Mathematics courses
  • Precalculus a Prelude to Calculus
  • Calculus Early Transcendentals
  • Elementary Algebra
  • Intermediate Algebra
  • Finite Mathematics with Applications
  • Mathematical Applications
  • Trigonometry
  • Trigonometry and College Algebra
  • Analytic Geometry
  • Mathematics for Elementary and Middle School Teachers, 6e
  • A Survey of Mathematics with Applications, Pearson
Science and kinesiology courses
  • Human Biology, 6e
  • Human Biology Lab Manual
  • O. CHEM Binder 1
  • O. CHEM Binder 2
  • Biology, 12e
  • Nutrition, 5e
  • Anatomy and Physiology
  • Human Body (A and P, 2e)
  • Human Anatomy and Physiology I
  • Human Anatomy and Physiology II
  • Fundamentals of Nursing, 10e
Forestry and agriculture courses
  • Tree Scrubs and Woody Vines of East Texas
  • Field Guide to TREES of North America
Computer science courses
  • JAVA Programming
Liberal and applied arts courses
  • Sociology
  • Lone Star Politics, 4e
  • Lone Star Politics, 5e
     

Resources for science courses

When borrowing these resources, you must remain in the AARC. Quantities available for each item vary.

  • A&P lab models
    • Switched out with each unit.
    • Some anatomy models change often and relate specifically to the topics within the anatomy and physiology courses.
  • Geology rock sets
  • Geology mineral sets
  • Organic molecules building set
  • Inorganic molecules building set
  • Light microscopes (standard and digital)
  • Meiosis and mitosis:
    • models (plant and animal)
    • slides
  • Circulatory system model
  • Heart pump models
  • Protein synthesis model kit
  • Peptide game
  • DNA model
  • Antibiotic resistance lab kit
  • Animal cell model
  • Animal slide set
  • Skeleton (full sized and mini)
  • Muscle man (mini)
  • Skin layers model
  • Digestive canal model
  • Diffusion model
  • Paramecium model
  • Retrovirus model
  • Micro life activity and slides
  • Bacteria slide set
  • Photosynthesis and cellular respiration activity flip chart
  • Plant cell model
  • Plant slide set
  • Plant type samples (shadowbox)
     

AARC Study Space

If you're looking for a quite space to study, visit the AARC during Steen Library hours and grab a spot at any available walk-in table or in the classrooms used for SI Groups. 

Priority does go to scheduled tutoring sessions; refer to the monitors outside each classroom for the next reserved time.

Glue for Your Brain study tips: Ways to learn and remember

It's no secret that we all learn differently. Below, you'll find several videos on the topic "Glue for Your Brain" to use as self-directed assistance on different learning strategies.