Important Dates

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 corrected	Summer 2008 textbook information form submissions due by this date.     [Form links]
Friday, April 18, 2008 revised	Fall 2008 textbook information form submissions due by this date.     [Form links]

Faculty Center Network

The Faculty Center Network is THE resource for faculty to review college-level textbooks and make informed decisions about textbook adoption.

Inside the Faculty Center Network (FCN), users can search or browse over 125,000 textbooks. For each textbook, we have author information and author biographies, cover images, book summaries, tables of contents, sample chapters and prefaces, and links to book supplements available to students.

In addition, FCN cross-references textbooks with previous editions, and FCN offers extensive publisher information. On a title-by-title basis, FCN provides publisher reviews and links to the publisher's Web site for additional supplemental information. And with each title, FCN provides publisher contact information for users if they want to request a professional review copy. This information is different from the publisher information database, which includes publisher address, phone number and e-mail addresses for key personnel.

The two key features of the Faculty Center are the subject ranking and book usage data, and the FC Notebook. MBS has taken its demand data from over 3,000 wholesale accounts and devised a way to show how often textbooks are adopted; and rank textbooks by subject category. The FC Notebook is similar to the "Wish List" feature you find at some retail sites. With the Notebook, you can produce an adoptions list to bring to your campus bookstore for ordering purposes. Or, you can create a list of the titles that you would like to request a professional review copy.

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If you are interested in gaining access to the Faculty Center Network, contact CCSF bookstore or fill out the FCN registration form.

Adopting Textbooks for Your Courses

The bookstore now offers faculty 2 ways to adopt textbooks for your classes.   Choose the one that best suits you.

ON-LINE: Using Our On-line Email Textbook Information Form (learn more)		DOWNLOAD: Using Our Downloadable Textbook Information Form (learn more)
Email adoptions		Downloadable Textbook Information form (Requires Acrobat Reader)

On-line Email Textbook Adoptions

Our on-line email text adoption form allows you the convenience of adopting textbooks from the convenience of your own home or class.  It's quick, it's easy, and best of all, no passwords are required. So why not try it today?

Take this moment to fill out our form to adopt textbooks for your classes for the upcoming semester(s).

• On-line Email Textbook Information Form

Downloadable Textbook Adoptions

If you prefer you can still adopt your textbooks the old fashioned way by following the information below.

Instructors should submit Textbook Information Form by the DUE DATE(s) for each semester to ensure that books will be on the shelf for the first day of class. Individual departments have their own procedures. Please ask your department’s chairperson about your department’s procedure.

Downloadable Textbook Information Form
Requires Acrobat Reader

Textbook Bundles

Putting several required books or other supplementary items into a bundle can be a good way to be sure every student buys what is needed.  Usually this is also at a cost savings to the student.  Most publishers offer such bundles.  Some have several popular packages already created in their catalogs, others will create one for you. In every case the value of a bundle is greatest when every piece is needed in the class and when students actually save money.  Used books are usually unavailable when a bundle is adopted. Buyback of textbooks will likely be limited.   Most bundles mean that students will need to buy all new books even if some or all of the books in the bundle could be available as used copies.  There are even more issues about bundles that make utilization of a bundle problematic.

To solve, or at least mitigate, bundle problems the CCSF Bookstore has created the Textbook Package/Bundle Adoption form.  This form is meant to assist faculty and publisher when creating a bundle.  It asks and requires answers to several questions about bundles which will make it possible fort the bookstore to determine the selling price and to make the teachers aware of any problems that could be caused if the prospective bundle is actually adopted.  It further assures the teacher that all the parts expected to be in the bundle will be there.  Only when the bookstore is aware of what is to be in the bundle and what the costs are can the bookstore make sure that the publisher delivers the product as ordered and that the bookstore sells the bundle at the price agreed on in advance by both the teacher and the publisher

Publisher Representatives should have this form.  They all know it is available from the bookstore.  You can print a blank copy of it by downloading from the above link.  The form is a three part form in three different colors so that you and the publisher rep can each have a copy after it is submitted to the bookstore.  This form is only used when the bundle is created.  This form is NOT in lieu of the normal textbook adoption form.   Except for the first time it is used, the regular form must be submitted each semester.

Desk Copies

Most publishers will issue a free desk copy to each instructor using a book. These copies may be obtained directly from publishers or from their local sales representatives. The bookstore has a list of the local representatives of many publishers and can obtain the address for any publisher. 

Teachers should order desk copies from the publisher no later than the same day the book order is turned into the bookstore. That will allow sufficient time to receive the books for the beginning of class. If there is not enough time to receive a desk copy prior to class, it is suggested that the instructor purchase a copy from the bookstore. The amount paid will be refunded when the replacement copy is returned to the bookstore. PLEASE NOTE: If the latter method is used, the publisher should be instructed to send a new, complete and unmarked copy. Otherwise the bookstore cannot refund the instructor’s money.

Publishers will not send desk copies to the Bookstore, nor will they accept requests from the Bookstore for desk copies.

No refunds will be given for books not being used in the current semester. Please be sure to obtain your desk copy before the semester ends.