Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council feels compelled to lodge the strongest complaint over the inefficiency and chaos reigning in the Coop's textbook area...If the Coop would demonstrate the same enthusiasm for the comprehensive stocking of texts as it does for pajamas and shaving lotions, it would be performing a far more valuable function...[It is] the Coop's responsibility to provide honest answers and to make a far more determined effort...
...that inefficiency within the store is not to blame, Teele and other Coop officials in the three months since the meeting have provided their own answer. If it is correct, the Coop will need help from a number of sources within the University this term to prevent another massive textbook shortage next Fall...
...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 large textbook shortage can be prevented this Fall...
...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...