Comments on: Getting angry

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:34:47 +0000

That’s great – nice to “meet” you! The ALA bookstore has the book for $5 more than the Drexel Bookstore – I’ll just keep my fingers crossed for now.

By: Erica

Erica — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:22:21 +0000

I ended up getting the Complete Copyright book from the ala bookstore.

(and we’re in 510 and 520 together!)

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:47:04 +0000

I am in 520, just in section 501 on campus (and I’m in 510 online, but section 903). So we just missed each other. We both are probably missing _Complete Copyright_. I was able to get a copy through my library for perusing and it might tide me over for a week or two. I’ve finally got professors showing up for my classes, so I feel better about that…now if they’d just let me into Blackboard!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:53:11 +0000

I bet it’s the same book I have backordered!! Are we in the same class?

I’m in:

INFO-503-901
INFO-510-902
INFO-520-900

Anyway, thanks for the info about the bookstore – I guess I just assumed that they wouldn’t help because they want me to buy from them.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:35:44 +0000

I’m starting at Drexel this upcoming semester as well, and I was able to get the appropriate ISBNs from the bookstore. After finding the lack of info on the bookstore site, I called with my class info and got what I needed (though the two people I spoke with on the phone weren’t too pleasant). Now if the one book just wasn’t backordered…

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:43:37 +0000

I agree that there should be an easier way – but we do what we have to to get the job done – right?

By: Jennifer Macaulay

Jennifer Macaulay — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:55:28 +0000

I hope that you will let us know if your plan to have your advisor help get information on your textbooks works – I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you. There has to be an easier way to deal with books.

By: A Whole Lot of Empathy « Life as I Know It

A Whole Lot of Empathy « Life as I Know It — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:32:18 +0000

[...] I have mentioned before that one of the most problematic things to deal with when taking classes online is the textbook issue. It is often difficult to get the information on the required texts in time to actually get them before the start of the semester – especially for the spring semester. I am currently still waiting for my last textbook to arrive – and am not able to complete all of my current reading assignments because of it. With these frustrations in mind, I definitely felt tons of empathy for Nicole Engard, from What I Learned Today. In a post entitled, Getting angry, Nicole vents about her textbook problems. I have to say that I don’t think my problems are nearly as bad. I can’t believe that the school, the ILS department or the bookstore doesn’t give enough information so that students can find the books someplace outside of the bookstore. It is outrageous to have to email professors in order to ask them to give you the required texts – and is downright wrong to try and force students to buy the texts from the bookstore. Prices are generally so much higher at the bookstore than other online sources. [...]