Faculty Resource Center
Welcome to the Faculty Resource Center. The following is a pool of resources that we have put together just for you. In our effort to provide the best possible service we are always willing to listen and add things as needed. Thank you.
What can I do to keep prices down?
Who to contact in the Bookstore for Textbooks
Summer Textbook Listing (updated 6/30/08)
Fall Textbook Listing (Updated 6/30/08)
What can I do to keep prices down?
What can professors do?
- Readopt the same textbook for the life of the edition.
- Use library and digital resources.
- Customize a reader with publishing companies.
- Only order materials that will be used for the class; if ordering a bundle utilize all components.
- Be sensitive to the pricing- call the bookstore for a quote of the book's retail price.
- Meet bookstore timelines for textbook requisitions.
- Encourage publishers to sell bundle components separately.
Bookstore strategies to fight high textbook costs:
- Provide aggressive buyback campaigns.
- Cultivate relationships with used book companies.
- Discuss textbook bundling with professors and suggest they only order what they will use.
- Suggest to faculty to readopt the same textbooks for the life of the edition.
- Research the price of the textbooks for faculty and quote the retail price.
- Produce a cost-benefit analysis after each semester to determine sell-through and usage.
- Contact new faculty through orientation to explain textbook acquisition process.
- Meet with the faculty senate, faculty executive board, and the student executive boards to come up with best practices and insight to this issue.
- Communicate through a faculty web page and offers textbook information. .
- Make presentations to faculty and the administration on the high cost of textbooks and the textbook process.
Textbook Requisition Form
Download [Textbook Requisition Form].
Download the form and fill it in. Once you have completed the form, use the "Submit by Email" button on the form to send it to us. If you have questions, you can email us at bkstore@unr.nevada.edu or call Erik or Aaron at 784-6597.
The form is intended for use with Adobe Acrobat Reader 7. The email submission button on the form will not work with older versions of Acrobat Reader.
Get Adobe Acrobat 7 Reader here.
Who to contact in the Bookstore for Textbooks
Erik Larsen [Book Division Supervisor] - 775-784-6597 - erikl@unr.edu.
Aaron Ochoa [Textbooks] - 775-784-6597 - ochoa@unr.nevada.edu.
Any other questions or concerns you may also contact our Manager:
Marie Stewart [Bookstore Manager] - 775-784-6597 - mstewart@unr.edu.
If you would like to know more about the people that work here, go here for a full listing of everyone in the store.
Stuff other than textbooks
Computer Software Deals
- Full-Time faculty and staff can get the Microsoft Office Professional for $9.00 (work @ home) or $79.00 (personal use). Fore more information please contact the Computer Den at comp_den@unr.nevada.edu or 775-784-4333.
Free Campus Delivery (new!)
- Purchase any general book or supply items via telephone or email and we will deliver them to you on campus for free! (Tel: 775-784-6597, email: bkstore@unr.nevada.edu)
Campus Authors
- Here are some of the newest books from campus authors.
Special Book Orders
