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Welcome! Oakland Community College Adjunct
Orientation
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• Agenda
• About OCC bookstores
• Textbooks An investment in your students
  future
• Adjunct challenges
• Trade Books
• General Merchandise
• Technology Center

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• About OCC bookstores
• Five stores serving each OCC campus
• Each store carries textbooks, trade books, and
  OCC general merchandise.
• Each bookstore uses different textbooks. 
  Students must order books from the campus
  bookstore where they are enrolled.

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• What you need to know about
• textbooks and other course material
• Why do textbooks cost what they do?
• What can you do about student attitudes toward
  their course materials?
• Technology Advances?
• What is custom publishing?
• How do I submit my textbook requisition?

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• Textbooks
• An investment in your students future
• Average Cost of College Textbooks
• 580 per year (Sources NACS, AAP)

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• Why do textbooks cost what they do?
• Producing a textbook program is complex and
  expensive.
• Costs include editing, accuracy checking, art
  development, photo permissions, layout, indexing,
  printing, manufacturing, storage, packaging, and
  technology and supplement development.
• The people who work on a book are paidfrom the
  authors earning royalties for their intellectual
  property to the publishing professionals who
  create numerous titles.
• To bring a book to market could be well over
  1,000,000 by the time its published.

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• Student attitudes toward textbooksusing what you
  adopt is key
• Over 25 of dont use their required course
  material. Its a perceived value issue.
• Students claim that only 76 of professors are
  using their required textbooks in class.
• More than half (56) of students who elected not
  to purchase a required textbook did so because
  the professor recommended they didn't.
• (2005 NACS Student Watch)

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• Adjunct challenges
• You might not get to choose the textbook that
  youll be teaching with and you dont know why it
  was chosen.
• You might be assigned the course one week prior
  to classes beginning.
• You might not be aware of the help you can
  receive from the bookstore and the publishers.

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• Overcoming the Adjunct challenges
• Ask the bookstore or department secretary who
  your publishers rep is for the adopted textbook
  and get the training you need on the adopted
  course material.
• Take advantage of the publishers first day of
  class programs and materials.

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• Online Adjunct resources
• Adjunct Nation
• http//www.adjunctnation.com/
• Adjunct Direct Thomson Higher Education
• http//servicedirect.thomsonlearning.com/serviced
  irect/adjunct/default.aspx
• Adjunct Genie Pearson Education
• http//www.ablongman.com/html/adjuncts/
• Inside HigherEd.com
• https//www.insidehighered.com/sign_up/contest

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If you do get to choose your own course material,
textbook programs have changed due to technology
advances
Radio Frequency Audience Response Systems
On-line Homework Systems with personalized
learning plans
Web-based database of over 10 million articles
from over 5,000 academic journals
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• Publishers now provide price options
• Textbooks are available alone or packaged with
  timesaving
• technology.
• Many of textbooks are available in a range of
  formats to best meet student budgets and learning
  styles.
• Choices can include purchasing the text in
  hardback, paperback, or loose-leaf, in full color
  or in black and white, or in eBook or audio book
  format.

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Publishers provide custom options

• Textbook specifically created by instructor from
  multiple sources for his/her course.
• Could include customized ancillaries
• Could include material written by instructor
• Customized technology could be apart of the book

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What is the benefit of custom textbooks?

• Students read and use what they pay for
• In many cases, the price is less than the
  traditional textbook.
• Because instructors create their own custom
  titles, the books better correlate to the
  lectures, which often produces a better learning
  solution.

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Textbook Requisitions
(Fill in this slide with your stores requisition
process)
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General Booksorder online!
Best selling fiction and non-fiction titles!
Staff favorites
Huge selection of Childrens books
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General Merchandise Support OCC!
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Technology Center
(Fill in this slide with your stores technology
products that are for sale!)
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Talk to your department chair about utilizing
your campus bookstore!