Word: coops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swenson said he is also confident that the Coop can find a fairly accurate way of estimating class sizes in advance. This term the Coop ordered too few books for about 15 per cent of the courses...
...Columbia bookstore receives all textbook orders through department chairmen and has almost no shortage problem, Swenson said. The Coop textbook staff frequently asks department heads for help in obtaining book lists, but it is often referred back to the individual professors...
According to Morrill, book lists for a quarter of the courses being offered this term were still missing Sept. 24, three days before the beginning of classes--even though all professors received a Coop order form last May. Several of the missing lists were for large lower-level courses, he added...
...meeting, Morrill explained that the high cost of keeping--or of returning--an unsold textbook forces the Coop to rely heavily on previous years' enrollment figures and book sales. "All we can hope to do is cut our shortages down to 10 per cent," he said...
Morill agreed to meet Nov. 3 with members of HCC to go over the textbook problem--and to discuss an HUC suggestion that the Coop call on graduate students and teaching fellows to keep it informed about course book lists...