WINTER AND SPRING 2013 TEXTBOOK ADOPTIONS DUE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th.
PLACING YOUR ORDER
You may place your order through campus mail, fax (410) 455-8629, internet at http://bookstore.umbc.edu (click on Faculty Adoptions) or e-mail textbook@umbc.edu. The adoption form is also attached to message for your convenience. Please, no adoptions by phone. Provide complete course information including section number(s) and complete book information including ISBN. Desk copy requests should be sent directly to the publisher. If you will not be using a textbook for your course, please submit an adoption stating “No Textbook Required.”
TEXTBOOK POSTING REQUIREMENTS
Board of Regents policy requires all textbook information to be posted online (via the Bookstore’s website) by December 1 for the Spring semester. Therefore, the University has instituted a deadline for Spring adoptions of November 24. However, we strongly advise that adoptions be submitted by October 19th to ensure sufficient processing time, to allow for substitutions when necessary and to secure used books from national wholesalers when they are most heavily stocked. [Faculty hired after this deadline should place their textbook adoption as
soon as possible.]
USED BOOKS
With the rising cost of textbooks, we begin to procure used books as soon as we receive your adoption. The Bookstore prides itself on the high volume of used text we provide our students. We order from eight national used book wholesalers, in addition to securing used books from our students during buyback. In order to pay students top dollar, we need to have your adoptions prior to buyback in December.
CUSTOM BUNDLED MATERIALS
On your adoption, please specify if you desire items bundled, along with the ISBN and the name and number of the publisher representative with whom you have worked in creating the package. Bear in mind that order fulfillment is slower and that bundled items have value only if all items are required. Otherwise, it may be beneficial to have them available for optional
purchase. Additionally, if software or other supplemental material is available for your text, please specify if it is required. [Please note that Board of Regents policy (adopted 2/13/09) states that “Faculty should order textbook bundles only if the supplements included with textbooks are necessary to the curriculum and instruction.”]
UMBC Bookstore
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
PHONE: 410-455-2699
FAX: 410-455-8629
