Daily Kansan Thursday, September 15, 1966
LOOKING FOR A BOOK?
GENERAL INFORMATION FOR YOUR SHOPPING CONVENIENCE
STATIONERY, ART AND ENGINEERING SUPPLIES
The stationery department on the upper level carries ball-point pens, fountain pens, ink, automatic pencils, index cards, file boxes, brief cases, typewriters and ribbons, student lamps, mailing supplies, and many other items to fill need needs.
Art and Engineering supplies are located on the upper level of the store. In this department you will find all kinds of special papers, materials, and media used in both art and engineering, as well as a selection of color reproductions of many famous paintings and a matting and framing shop for all pictures.
SAVE YOUR RECEIPTS
It is a good procedure to save your cash register receipts for ALL Book Store purchases, and it is essential should any subsequent adjustment become necessary. It is also necessary that you have these receipts at the close of a refund period so you may claim your refund.
All income of the Kansas Union Book Store over and above operating expense is returned to eligible customers in the form of a cash refund. This refund is a percentage of face value of all cash register receipts from a given period of time. Refund periods run from July 1 to December 21 and January 1 to June 30.
Only members of the University student body or staff and their families may claim this refund.
PAYING BY CHECK
If you are paying by check, please make the check payable to the Kansas Union Book Store and, if possible, have the check made out, with the exception of the amount, before you get to the cash register. Be sure to include your local address, and have identification with your signature ready. It is a good idea to always carry your student identification card since it serves as basic identification in most of your college contacts. Checks with purchases may be made out for $10.00 above the amount of purchase.
Your student ID Card, with paid receipt, is your passport to all University functions. You should carry them with you at ALL times. It is essential that you present them when you cash a check at the book store.
SELF SERVICE
The entire Book Store is a self-service operation, so when you have completed enrollment, come in and make your own selection by course number and department. During opening rushes book store personnel wear staff name cards and will be glad to assist you in any way possible. If a book which you need has not yet arrived or is out of stock, you may leave a special order so that a copy will be held for you. No deposit is necessary on a special ordered text book.
A group of cash registers is located at each exit and the cashiers there can handle the sale of merchandise from any area of the store. During semester opening, identification is checked before you get to the register. After the first week of school the cashier who waits on you will also check your identification if you are paying by check.
TEXT BOOKS
Text Books are on the lower level and are grouped under schools and departments—Art, Economics, Engineering, Philosophy, and so forth. Under these headings, they are arranged numerically by course—Art 1, Art 2, Art 3—and, within the course, alphabetically by author if there are several books for the course. Major departments are shown on the map of the book department.
There is a shelf tag for each course, which gives the course number, the author and title and instructor if two or more instructors teach the same course but use different books. A required book is a must for the course. A recommended book is one which the professor feels would be a useful and valuable addition. It is not a must; its purchase depends upon the student's interest. Recommended books will be on the text shelves during semester opening but will be designated as "recommended" and the shelf tag will be orange instead of white as it is for a required title.
No book list is necessary, since all the information is before you on the shelf. If a book has been delayed in its arrival or is out of stock, it will still have its shelf tag and a sign giving你 information as to when it may be expected.
The Book Store makes every attempt to have all required and recommended texts on the shelves, ready for you, at least two weeks before the start of each semester. There are a number of reasons for shortages—out of stock at the publisher, mis-sent shipments, unanticipated large enrollments, late placement of orders by professors, and our old friend human error. All facilities are pushed to the utmost to cover these shortages as quickly as possible.
At school openings, to provide for changes in courses, text books are returnable WITH RECEIPT during the free drop period. They are returnable for full value only if they are in NEW condition. Do not write your name in a book if there is any question that you might change the course, and do not make notes in it. If you have written your name in the book or made any notes, the book is a used book and you can be refunded only one-half the new retail price.
During the balance of the year, with the exception of the last two weeks of any semester, text books in new condition are returnable with receipt up to 10 days after purchase.
No text books are accepted for return during the last two weeks of any semester, regardless of time of purchase.
USED TEXT BOOKS
The Book Store, wherever possible, attempts to provide students with the choice of either NEW or USED text books. When used texts are available, they will be on the shelves right next to the new books. A used text in good condition sells for 75% of the new retail price. All used texts are marked USED on the price tag and stamped inside the front cover.
At the end of each semester, the Book Store has a specific buy-back period, during which students can sell used texts which they no longer wish to keep. Buy-back prices vary according to whether or not the book will be used the following semester. When the Book Store has been informed that a book is being used the following semester and the book is in good condition, the usual buy-back price is one-half of the book's original retail price.
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When the pace slackens, remember to browse through the wide selection of hardback, general reference, technical reference, art gift, and paperback books in the book store and the paperback store in Watson Library.