HSU Bookstore Goals and Course Materials Checklist

November 21, 2016

Greetings HSU Faculty, Staff, and Administrators:

The HSU Bookstore Team would like to thank you for your ongoing loyalty and support as we wrap up the current term and prepare for Spring 2017. Our goal is to offer excellent customer service that supports HSU students and faculty alike. Our key goals in securing course materials for each term are:

  • for students to have access to affordable course textbooks, supplies, and supplemental materials to encourage their success at HSU
  • to order course materials in a timely manner, and in accurate quantities, with our commitment to stocked inventory to cover the student’s needs
  • to offer various formats of course materials, new, used, and electronic books to ensure affordable choices
  • to work together with faculty, administrators, students, publishers and distributors to identify ways to  make course materials, textbooks, and supplemental materials affordable
  • to work directly in support of faculty members to support their decisions for selections of high quality course materials for students.


By embracing the above stated goals the HSU Bookstore Team works toward the best customer service possible for students, faculty and others while upholding the spirit of the Higher Education Opportunity Act (Public Law 110-315) (HEOA) of California.

We have had some challenges in the recent past in regards to ordering and supplying course materials. We are actively in the process of fixing them. We appreciate your patience. 

There have been several personnel changes at the HSU Bookstore recently. Under the direction of Michelle Webster, HSU Bookstore Manager, we are building a solid and reliable team dedicated to making the bookstore processes as efficient as possible in a friendly environment. Gael Duffy Hill is our new Course Materials Manager; Juan Olivarez is the Assistant Store Manager; and Dominique Johnson is the Operations Manager. We welcome your questions, comments and inquiries. For your convenience, we have listed their contact information below:

When we order your textbooks and course materials, we enter that information into the Follett database. We consider your specific request and base the quantity of the order on current student enrollment, past sales, and inventory status. We call this part of our process “Quantity to Cover” or QTC. It is our intent to monitor the requests, sales and availability of inventory to meet the best QTC to fulfill student and faculty needs. Please see the checklist below when ordering course materials to ensure a smooth ordering process for faculty.

FACULTY COURSE MATERIALS “ADOPTION” ORDERING CHECKLIST:
Textbook Adoptions
 can be submitted by contacting the HSU Bookstore Course Materials office in the following ways. Please remember, changes in previously submitted adoptions after the set deadline will delay course materials arrival.

Required Contact Instructor Information

  • Department and Course Number, and Section-CRN (if possible)
  • Estimated student enrollment
  • Your telephone extension
  • Your email address

Textbook information

  • Author, complete title, and ISBN number 
  • Edition/copyright year, and publisher – please note if a certain edition is needed
  • Indicate if course material is “Required”; “Recommended” or “Choice”
  • Term (Spring 2017)
    If you DO NOT require a book, or any other materials, it is still necessary to inform us – please indicate “NO BOOKS REQUIRED.” This step is built into the database software; we can not complete your course information without noting “No Books Required.” It is also a convenience to the student if they know this information upfront while planning their schedule.

If you require ONLY materials from sources outside the HSU Bookstore, please indicate NO BOOKSTORE SUPPLIED MATERIALS/SEE INSTRUCTOR”

 

Custom Course Packs 

  • If you require a custom course packet, please contact the Course Materials Manager directly and we will work with our publishing partners to meet your needs
  • Course packets containing copyright protected material can take up to 6 weeks for clearance because the publishers must get clearance and/or permission, before reprinting content. That is one reason why we need to build in a solid timeframe before we can deliver course packets appropriately.
  • New submissions, and revised course packets, will take 3-4 weeks for production. We want to work with you to ensure you get your course packets ordered in time.
  • Please specify if you will be making revisions to a previous term’s packet.

Supplies & Supply Bundles

  • List all Scantrons, calculators, lab supplies, art materials, etc.
  • Specify brand/product names as appropriate

Technology Tools

  • List all necessary software, hardware, data storage, or electronics
  • Specify brand/product names as appropriate
  • Indicate if you are teaching a “continuation course” if students will already have the materials from a prior term
  • List any cross listed sections of your course 

We look forward to working in concert with you to continue the tradition of success at HSU for students and faculty alike. Thank you for your assistance in preparing for the upcoming semester and meeting our students’ needs.  Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions, or for assistance in your course material selections.

The Bookstore Team
Humboldt State University
1 East Laurel Drive
Arcata, CA 95521
(707) 826-5834 
bookstore@humboldt.edu

 

 

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