{"id":9985,"date":"2008-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2008\/02\/20\/bookstore-offers-textbook-and-course-kit-information-sessions\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T14:51:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:51:28","slug":"bookstore-offers-textbook-and-course-kit-information-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2008\/02\/20\/bookstore-offers-textbook-and-course-kit-information-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookstore offers textbook and course kit information sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>York University Bookstores is hosting its second annual Textbook &amp; Course Kit Information Session for faculty, administrative assistants and instructors, along with a panel discussion on &quot;The Future of Book Publishing and Book Retailing&quot;, on Tuesday, Feb. 26.<\/p>\n<p>This is the bookstore&rsquo;s kick-off to the spring and fall book buying season. There will be two identical 90-minute sessions on ordering textbooks, course kits and other course material. The first session is at 10:30am and the second at 1:30pm, both in the Senior Common, Room 305, Founders College, Keele campus.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch will be provided in between sessions as panelists Jeff Snooks, director of marketing at McGraw-Hill Publishers, Len Husbands, a University of Toronto Press editor, and Steve Glassman, director of the York University bookstore and printing services, discuss the future of publishing, starting at noon.<\/p>\n<p>Each session will deal with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ordering textbooks, how to do it along with timing issues. <\/li>\n<li>Working with bookstore staff, what staff can do for faculty and students. <\/li>\n<li>Selecting and adopting textbooks, advice on working with publishers. <\/li>\n<li>Creating and ordering course kits, lab manuals and specialized publications. <\/li>\n<li>The student&rsquo;s perspective, their needs and how they navigate the bookstore. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bookstore staff will provide one-on-one discussions and live how-to demonstrations. Session goers will also be given updated reference materials to take with them.<\/p>\n<p>To attend either session, and lunch, RSVP to Michael Legris at <a href=\"mailto:mlegris@yorku.ca\">mlegris@yorku.ca<\/a> or call ext. 22078.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three panellists will discuss the future of book publishing and book retailing, in between sessions on how to order textbooks and course materials...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-9985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - 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