Book Rental Information

TO: All Faculty

FROM: Pam DeGraffenreid

RE: Rental Textbook Requirements

This letter is to request textbook information. As many of you know, textbook costs are an ongoing issue with the UNC Board of Governors and have generated interest in on-time adoptions rates within the system. On-time adoptions are important for bookstores to access the used book market and thus lower textbook costs.  Please let us know if there is anything that we can do to help assist you in your effort to obtain textbook requests by the due date.

 As in the past, a computer form containing a summary of all courses taught in your department, including the course number, author, textbook title, adoption dates, etc. (this information is not available on our web-site) will be sent to the department head.

Please review this information with faculty members in your department. In the column headed “Estimated Enrollment”, please enter the number of textbooks which you determine are needed for the upcoming semester.

Please be reminded of the revised policy that allows a new textbook to be adopted before the two-year adoption period expires only if certain criteria are met.  The criterion is outlined in the revised Book Rental adoption policy. Please refer to the textbook policies and procedures for more information on the policy.  The Book Rental policies, procedures, and forms are available on our web site at http://books.wcu.edu/

If a new textbook is to be adopted, please submit a new adoption form or an exception to the two-year adoption rule form, either on-line or by submitting a hard copy from our web site. 

The computer course summary, new adoptions and exceptions to the two-year adoption rule requests need to be received by the permanent due date found on the faculty links page (when the permanent due dates fall on a holiday or weekend, requests will be due the next business day). 

NOTE:  Remember only new adoptions and exceptions to the two-year adoption rule can be processed on-line. All previous adoption information must be entered on the computer course summary.