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By Sept. 24, five days after registration last Fall, a large number of students -- more than usual -- were walking up to clerks in the Coop annex and complaining they couldn't find the textbooks they needed on the shelves. A count at the end of the day showed they were...
Last year, they point out, the Coop took its first step toward filling the Fall shelves at the beginning of May, when it sent a form letter to all professors teaching courses in the Fall and asked for a list of their required books. At the bottom was stamped "Early...
But by that time another, more traditional problem was depleting the shelves. Too few books had been ordered in a number of courses; as they sold out, title by title, blue tags were put up indicating they had been reordered. But students wondered why the supply of so many textbooks...
Did the Coop add to the delay after books arrived from the publisher? Only slightly, Coop officials argue -- their triplicate filing system sometimes slowed down transfer of books from packages to shelves, but was efficient in the long run. And, if students didn't complain about a sold-out book...
But Coop officials themselves have not done much more. Although they expect almost all Spring term books to be on the shelves by Feb. 7, they admit this is mostly due to the ease with which professors can be reached during the winter and is not a sign that a...