A 3-ring binder will be required to maintain information for your final project. A thin one (1/2" ) should be sufficient.
The LabVIEW software comes with extensive documentation. There are also a number of LabVIEW manuals and texts available in Bailey 117 (which should not leave that room). No additional books are therefore required.
If you wish to have a book of your own, you might consider the following:
LabVIEW for Everyone (3rd Ed.) by Jeffrey Travis and Jim Kring (Prentice Hall, 2006) ISBN: 0-1318-5672-3, ISBN-13: 978-0131856721
Labview 8 Student Edition (book only) by Robert H. Bishop (Prentice Hall, 2006) ISBN: 0-1323-9025-6, ISBN-13: 978-0132390255
Version 8.5 of the software will be available from any campus lab computer, thanks to our network licensing method. I believe that the first book above comes with a trial version of the software, maybe version 8.0, that will function for a month. If you wish to get the software for yourself, there are student editions that are not outrageously priced, available for both Mac and PC.
Labview 8 Student Edition (Prentice Hall, 2006) ISBN: 0-1319-9918-4, ISBN-13: 9780131999183 (Includes LabVIEW version 8.2.1 and the book by Bishop.)
LabVIEW Student Edition Software Suite DVD (National Instruments) Product ID #858997 (Software only, version 8.5)
As far as this course is concerned, the differences between the versions is not terribly important. A book about version 7, or even version 6, will cover all of the programming techniques we discuss, possibly with a little change in jargon.
For the some of the projects, a newer version may be required in order to control some of the newer equipment. But one could still do much of the programming using an earlier version of the software.