GSLL Desk Copy Policy -- implemented January 2012

GSLL staff will handle book orders and desk copy requests only if they are submitted by the bookstore’s deadlines. Faculty members who turn in book orders after the deadline should submit them directly to the bookstore, and they are responsible for ordering desk copies for themselves and for teaching assistants. If faculty members order desk copies on their own because they have missed the deadline and desk copies do not arrive on time, then faculty members are responsible for buying books for themselves and for the TA(s). Faculty members with 1k accounts may use them to pay for these books.

 

Textbook Order Due Dates:

Summer:  March 15

Fall:  April 1

Spring:  October 1

 

Your options to submit your book orders to the CU Bookstore:

  1. Email bookstore (textbook@cubookstore.com) and cc Sara (gsll_assist@colorado.edu).  Include department, semester/year, course/section number, estimated enrollment, phone, ISBN, author, title, year/edition, publisher.  For each book, indicate if the book is optional or required.  The book store will order 10% of estimated enrollment for any optional books.  If you would like them to order a different number, please indicate how many you would like them to order.  Make a note of any desk copies you would like Casey to order.
  2. Order online at www.cubookstore.com Click on “faculty” at the top of the page (make sure you are submitting books for the correct term). Send Casey the information, including requests for any desk copies you would like her to order. 

Note from bookstore in light of the budget crunch: The amount of additional expense the bookstore and the University incur as a result of late adoptions is fairly staggering so please make every effort to get me your orders by the due date.

You are free to order books from other sources in addition to the CU Bookstore (see CU policy below).  Please remember that Casey handles ordering ONLY for the CU Bookstore.  If you order through another bookstore in addition to the CU Bookstore, please place and process the outside order yourself.

Due to increased scrutiny from publishers and a lack of department resources, we will be able to order desk copies only for required texts ordered for the first time, or for required texts for which you have not received a desk copy for at least three years.  We’re unable to procure desk copies for optional texts.

Policy on Faculty Notification to Campus Bookstore of Required Texts "In order to maintain a single central source of complete information directly accessible by CU-Boulder students, all CU-Boulder faculty shall inform the University of Colorado Bookstore of all required textbooks (graduate and undergraduate) for their courses.  Faculty are expected to provide this information to the University of Colorado Bookstore with customary timeliness with respect to established deadlines.  It is also strongly recommended that faculty notify the CU Bookstore of all recommended undergraduate course texts as well.  Faculty may inform any other textbook sources of their course readings, but they may not require students to purchase books from any particular vendor."