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IBSN numbers from the bookstore

Rhonda Freeland, Editor-in-Chief, TCC Times, 11/15/2004, 3:12:15 PM

With online book buying becoming easier and more cost effective for the student, our bookstore has stopped allowing students to look at the books they need prior to buying them by removing the books from plain view and then shrink wrapping them and putting a sticker of the ISBN number on the back of the book. They also state there is a no refund policy once the materials are purchased. Doesn't this violate the FOI act since the college is a public institution as well as consumer law. We are located in VA. I am not sure where to look to start builing a case to make the college and the bookstore release ISBN information. Thanks.

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Stephen Yeargin, Editor - The Pacer, 11/20/2004, 11:54:52 PM
Rhonda,

While we haven't gotten into the legal question of it, we did start applying pressure to our Student Government Assoc. to get a copy of any record from Academic Affairs sent to the bookstore regarding faculty textbook requisitions.

This ends up coming in the form of a thick set of computer printouts, which we've been told will soon be available in a binder in the SGA office.

If you don't already, editorialize the hell out of this subject. I guarantee this is a battle being waged across the country.

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