Can you get things for college students?

Yes, but you may wish to know of some options that may get you what you need faster.

Many college libraries in South Carolina subscribe to a service called Polaris. This interagency service transfers items between South Carolina college libraries in as little as three working days. If the item you need is not in South Carolina, college libraries subsidize interlibrary loan requests for their students. Many academic libraries will not lend to public libraries, or charge a hefty fee to them for the loan of materials.

About textbooks: just-published textbooks are usually not available via interlibrary loan; mainly because the expense makes libraries reluctant to release them. Some libraries will lend textbooks to public libraries. However, you may only get to keep the item a short time, and certainly not the length of a full academic semester. While we sympathize with the difficulty and expense of buying and reselling textbooks, we cannot buy everyone's textbooks for them, or keep other libraries' books indefinitely. Failure to return items on time jeopardizes our ability to borrow items for others in the future.