I was in Germany as an exchange student (in 2012). In the library, they had copying machines that photographed from top and processed the images so they looked like perfect scans. You would just go there with a book and USB drive, turn pages for a while and then you had a copy of that book. Needless to say that we distributed the copies. So it was only necessary when we couldn’t find the exact version. The libraries usually had several copies books.
For some courses, professors also just uploaded PDFs of entire books in the learning platform.
There was also an on-campus shop where you could buy the printed slides for an entire course for a few Euros. I still have one of them for nostalgic reasons because I was intensely studying the math in there. By the way it was beautifully done by the professor's team in LaTeX.
For some courses, professors also just uploaded PDFs of entire books in the learning platform.
There was also an on-campus shop where you could buy the printed slides for an entire course for a few Euros. I still have one of them for nostalgic reasons because I was intensely studying the math in there. By the way it was beautifully done by the professor's team in LaTeX.