Hi everyone. My name is Cory Whipkey, and I'm the Textbook Services Manager for campus.
We wanted to give you a little bit of information about what you will need to know to pick up your textbooks.
So typically we'll start to to check out our textbooks for you for the semester about a week before classes start.
You can mark that generally as when we'll start, but you can also consult the webpage if you to want to for sure.
So once you come here to check out your books, there is a couple of things to know.
The first one is you must have a photo ID in able to get your books. So that photo ID can be a driver's license,
a passport, your UWRF ID - anything that has your picture and your name on it.
No ID, no books. We got to have that picture ID.
The next one is if you have a fine from any kind of previous semester, you need to take care of it here, and this should be a textbook fine.
If you have something from something else, that shouldn't block you, but it shouldn't be a textbook fine.
So, if you have a textbook fine, come here to our service desk. We'll take care of your fine, get a release for you, and you'll be good to go.
The last thing is if you have any books checked out from a previous semester, they must be returned before you can get your books.
So, if you're taking a spring semester class and you took a J-term class as well, your J-term books will need to be returned before you get your spring books.
To do that, just bring them right to our front help desk here, and we'll get that taken care of for you. So once you have your books, and once you've checked them out,
you'll get a sheet of information that has all this information on it as well and the due date for when your books are due
at the end of the semester. Please hold onto that sheet because it has all you'll need to know, but in case you lose it or misplace it, here are some kind of rules
about what to do once you have your books. If you drop a class, you have four calendar days to return the book after you drop the class.
Now please know that's calendar days; it's not class days, so, you know, we need the books back for people who may have picked up the class after you dropped it.
So we need the books back in that way. You have two weeks to look through your books to note or find any damage on them.
Typically, if there's already damage in the book, it's going to be noted towards the front. We have a property stamp, and then if the damage is already noted, it's going to be on the stamp right there.
So if you look through your book and find damage that's not noted in the first two weeks, please bring it to our help desk.
We'll stamp it, and then your not held responsible for it.
We ask that you not highlight or underline in a book. If there is minimal or light highlighting or underlining, we won't fine you for that;
however, if you do have a book that has this yellow sticker on it that says, "Do Not Highlight" on there, then you may not highlight at all.
So if you check out a book with that sticker on it and you find highlighting in there, please bring it to our service desk right away so we can stamp it,
and then you're not held responsible for that. If something does happen to your book during the semester - for instance, if you spill coffee on it,
spill water on it, dog eats it - all of these things have happened - please bring the book directly to us
so we can kind of assess it and figure our what we need to do. We can get you a new book if you need one,
or we can kind of find the best way to go forward, but please just bring it back to us right away.
And lastly, when in doubt, if you have any questions about what to do with a textbook or a situation, please just contact us.
We're always willing to help. You know, you can contact us here in person, stop in, call us. We have our website -
there's lots of information there as well. So please do that.
And then lastly, we ask that you return your books on time. You know, this program saves you literally thousands of dollars while you're here.
So giving our books back to us at the end of the semester is also very helpful as well.
So thank you for your time, and have a great day.
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