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...such a sign Coop officials are looking to Arnold H. Swenson, formerly associate director of the Columbia University bookstore and an executive at the Columbia store since 1941. When he became Coop book director last month, Swenson said he was confident that enough could be done by this Fall to rule out the possibility of a shortage -- without any radical changes in the present textbook department...
...Swenson believes he has an answer to the problem of textbook shortages that may cost absolutely nothing. "I did all my work at Columbia by personal contact," he says. "I knew the professors and the department heads and they trusted me. That's what I have to achieve here...
...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...
...Swenson, who will assume his new post Jan. 1, said last night that he plans to spend a great deal of time speaking and writing to professors. "I think that establishing personal contacts will go a long way toward solving the problem," he explained...
...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...