THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE

OFFICE OF
THE CHANCELLOR

April 23, 1946

TO CHAIRMEN OF DEPARTMENTS:

The recent survey of textbook needs indicates that the
number of volumes required for the summer session is not too
large to be handled in the usual manner. If you have not already
provided for the requirements for your department for the summer,
you should do so promptly through Rowlands or by whatever other
meens you think best.

The number of textbooks required for the fall semester
is so large that past provisions for handling them may not be
adequate. The student bookstore mst wait authorization by the
Board of Regents at their meeting on May 10, and probably can
not be organized in time to start taking orders for books mich
before June 1, You are free, in the meantime, to inform any
bookstore of the needs of your department for the fall semester
or to provide the required texts in any other manner you wish.
When the student bookstore is ready for operation, the manager
will undoubtedly canvass your department concerning textbook
requirements for fall. An effort will be made to avoid dupli-
cation of orders already placed.

The University is writing to the book companies concern-
ing the delivery of textbooks for fall for courses requiring as
many as one hundred copies of a single text. If necessary, the
University will endeavor to purchase promptly books which might
otherwise be unobtainable, but it is hoped that such purchases
will be necessary only in a few cases. Please inform the Chan-
cellor's Office if you know of books which must be thus purchased
by the University.

If your department plans to use any books which were
used in Navy courses, you should check with the Chancellor's
Office on the number of such books purchased by the University
which are still available. Your demands for summer and fall
should be modified accordingly.

In summary: make provision for your textbook needs
for summer promptly; make known your needs for next fall to
any agency you wish at the present time and to the student
bookstore when organized; inform the Chancellor's Office
concerning books which mst be purchased promptly by the
University in order to assure availability when needed,

Sincerely yours,
EAELIF——G

Dean of the University