Campus Bookstore Sales

Over the past few years Acquisitions has bought books at the Campus Bookstore sales. The sales are a lot of work for Acquisitions and they tend to occur at the same time that we are receiving lists for books for reserve. So, we need to set up some ground rules.

1. Ask Alain Dubie to request subject lists of books in stock at least two weeks before the sale Realize that some of the titles will be sold out by the time the sale starts.

2. Please check the titles you want in Pegasus -- not in the Melvyl data base--before you turn in your requests. We generally own 60-80% of the titles on the lists. Acquisitions cannot check all the titles on a subject list.

3. Do not request current university titles. These should come on approval. Publishers send books to book stores first to get them in front of the book buying public as quickly as possible. Then they send books to jobbers because they know the jobbers are a sure sale.

4. Turn in the lists by the first day of the sale. Overworked Bookstore personnel do not look kindly on trying to invoice masses of books on the last day of a busy book sale. Acquisitions will work on the requests as time permits in light of other high priority work. Remember that as well as checking Pegasus and OCLC, we need to check the BNA database to see if any of the titles are coming on approval.

5. You may pull up to ten books from the shelves and have them held for Acquisitions. Bring the books to the front desk (to the left as you enter the store) and request that they be held for the library. This is a big help to us. But do this one or two days before the sale, not earlier; books held longer are a problem for the Bookstore.

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Author: Alain Dubie
Last modified: August 29, 1998