ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-BoulderÂ’s Office of Community Relations and the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Bookstore joined forces last spring to collect used textbooks from ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ students as they prepared to leave campus for the summer.
At the end of each semester, students have the option of selling their textbooks back to the bookstore, although many books do not meet the criteria for "buy back." At the end of the spring ‘99 semester, however, more than 1,500 books fell into that category.
According to Pam Mills, director of the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Bookstore, textbooks are continuously being updated. "With rapid changes in information, new book editions are being published at a very quick rate. Therefore the used books in many cases are not eligible to be bought back."
The Office of Community Relations worked with state organizations and schools to find groups that could use the books.
Organizations that received textbooks this summer include Attention Homes, Mile High Jazz Camp, the Buena Vista Correctional FacilityÂ’s library and GED program, Boulder County JailÂ’s library, the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Bueno CenterÂ’s High School Equivalency Program, Hughes Science Initiative Teacher Workshops, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥Â’s ALTEC foreign language lab, Fremont Correctional Institution and the Magic Circle Theater in Montrose.
The textbook program has been so successful that the Community Relations Office is planning to continue collecting books at the end of each semester.
For more information, please contact ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder's Office of Community Relations at (303) 492-7084.