I had a similar experience this summer.  Had it not been for my book rep
I would have been in a real mess.  I turned my order for books. It was a
little late I will admit.  This was for an entirely new edition.  It was
for all new textbooks for about 75 students.  It turned out they ordered
a dozen of the books from the publisher.  My textbook rep call and ask
if I knew that.  Service????

-----Original Message-----
From: UTC Staff E-Mail List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Parthasarati Dileepan
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 9:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [UTCSTAFF] Cancelled Books for classes

At 11:08 AM 8/16/2002 -0400, Rene Long wrote:
>ATTENTION:  ALL FACULTY
>
>Because this has become such a problem, we must now enforce our company
>policy of charging the shipping charges for cancelled books to the
>appropriate department effective immediately.  This charge does not
apply
>to cancelled classes only cancelled books.


In this context I would like to present an experience we had with the
book
store
at the start of Spring 2002.  Even though we turned in our book orders
for
Spring
2002 within the deadline and did not cancel the book order at any time,
I
had at
least 15 students without books at the start of the semester.  Even
after
two weeks
into the semester there were more than just a couple of students without
books.

Well, now Fall 2002 is about to start and I am not very confident all my
students
will have a book.  Burnt by my previous experience I called the book
store
last week
to enquire about the books for my Fall 2002 classes.  The books are here
alright,
but only 75% of enrollment for each of my classes.  This is their
policy, I
was told.

-- dileepan