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This fall, the NYU Book Centers are introducing three new Intranet services that will make ordering and buying books easier for both faculty and students.Faculty members will be able to use the new online course form {http://www.bookc.nyu.edu/forms/course.html} Replacement URL: http://www.bookstores.nyu.edu/forms/course.html to request books for the spring term. They can view it through a Web browser, fill it out directly on the screen, and, with a simple click, submit the request electronically to the Book Centers' ordering department. This on-line ordering system will eliminate the hassle of finding, filling out, and sending the standard paper form, and should help encourage faculty members to submit requests early. Not only do early requests give the Book Centers more time to research, order, receive, and price books; they also save students money by making more used books available and reducing the number of rush charges and out-of-stock situations that often occur with late orders.
The Book Centers will introduce another new service for faculty use early next year. This will allow faculty to build their custom course packets online. These booklets, which are compiled of articles and excerpts from different authors and publications, require copyright permission to be cleared for each component before the course packets can be assembled for use in the classroom. The new Intranet service will allow faculty to build and submit their course-packet lists, monitor the status of their permissions, and add or delete items during the copyright process.
The third new service will simplify book purchasing by making course material information {http://www.bookc.nyu.edu/main/text/inquiry.html} Replacement URL: http://www.bookstores.nyu.edu/WKSCRIPTS3/wkf?BEGIN.ORDER.PROCESS available to students before they come to the store. From the Book Centers' Web site, registered students will be able to simply input their ID number and then instantly view and print the titles, costs, and inventory information for the books needed in all courses for which they're registered. If a book is out of stock, that will be indicated, as well as whether the book has been reordered and, if so, the quantity ordered. Students can check the book's status daily to avoid unnecessary trips to the Book Centers. Furthermore, a printout of the books serves as a useful shopping list, to ease the process of finding books. Eventually, the Book Centers plan to let students purchase their books directly through the Web site.
Other possibilities are being considered for the future. If you have any questions or comments about the Intranet services
now being offered by the NYU Book Centers, or suggestions for new ones, please contact Assistant Director Phil Christopher at
phil.christopher@nyu.edu.
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Posted 23 September 1996; Revised 22 October 1996 and 26 January 2004.
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