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...group of well mannered readers, Widener Library and its annexes face an increasing shortage of essential texts. Irresponsible squiggles carved into the margins of valuable books and the destruction of entire chapters by argumentative students retire vital books from service with alarming frequency. This destruction of rare and out-of-print works seriously hampers the efficiency of the University library system. Coupled with increasing book thefts by a few slippery dips, the mutilation of library property becomes a problem that must be solved if students expect to retain generous reading privileges...
...improved dispensing system becomes a frustrating and irksome wait when large numbers of necessary texts are unavailable. After two days of book orders, large holes appear in the course lists required by popular fields such as Government and Economics. Inaccurate reading lists containing many out-of-print works, poorly estimated class enrollment, and a naive hope that some 250 newly registered students would drop out hinder the purpose of an improved sales plan. While some course instructors completed their book needs as early as last July, others are still making changes and undergraduates must now sweat out three or four...
Helen McCloskey, in charge of the book office which handles the paper work for over 7,000 authorizations, says that the situation "is not as bad at last term." Numerous out-of-print and unavailable texts, however, have popped up on our course reading lists to plague the veterans' office...
Having found "a few cases of abuse" in the "questionably high prices charged for new and used books" in the Square, the Council reported that "the worst problem lies in second-hand and out-of-print books since these have neither ceilings nor list problems...
Isenstadt thinks that literary Cambridge's greatest need is a bookstore specializing in scholarly items, such as out-of-print philosophical works and the like, and Mr. I eventually hopes to open such a shop. In the meantime, he'll continue to vend his variegated wares to countless classes to Cantabrigians, come hell, Hearst or high water...