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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m working with our Barnes and Noble … though we don’t have AIM … and I’ve been told they can’t share inventory lists with me due to privacy concerns. Have you heard of anything like this?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Great conversation, all! I feel like I need a decoder ring or something to solve these truncated title mysteries sometimes … but typically ISBN narrows things down when available.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Admittedly, our profs aren’t making determinations on their course materials at registration … which does make things far more difficult for us – and the students, to be honest. Usually I’ll email profs for classes our high-volume alt format
users are planning to take in the upcoming term, but this won’t ever solve the problem of schedule changes and last-minute adds.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sorensen, Neal B<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 16, 2020 10:43 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Bookstore politics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is for bookstores, but students don’t always realize that we need it when making requests. I’ve been using AIM this semester for alt format, and it uses the inventory list from the bookstore, so I get all that info without the student
having to provide it… Unless of course the student simply emails me to ask if I have a book.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 16, 2020 10:22 AM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D">I thought providing ISBNs was required now by bookstores<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 16, 2020 11:01 AM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is your bookstore a Barnes and Noble campus store?<o:p></o:p></p>
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I’m fairly sure that is the way Barnes and Noble lists textbooks (maybe all books?). Our bookstore is B&N and we have these same
<i>garbage</i> descriptions! The ISBN is so essential. I don’t have a solution, but I share your pain! This practice has made me play detective more than I’d like.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Deborah Armstrong<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 15, 2020 4:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Bookstore politics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">RANT MODE ON:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Do you have this problem with your bookstore? Ours always has these awful abbreviations for books and is less than willing to provide too much identifying information like an ISBN lest students purchase books on a cheaper site like Amazon.
They have to show a profit.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know in times like these any college would not want to lay off bookstore employees, but it seems to me in the long run we’d be way better off it students were encouraged to buy books the cheapest way possible.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For example this morning, a student sent me a receipt for a book that read<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> LAB MANUAL+WORKBK.F/BIOLOG.ANTHRO.(LL) SOLURI 1 $53.47<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I looked at the actual bookstore information for this course; same thing. Instructor’s syllabus also probably says the same thing. Hard to provide alt media with minimal info like this.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">RANT MODE OFF!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">--Debee<o:p></o:p></p>
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