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...system could potentially relieve the perennial burden of high coursepack prices faced by Harvard students at the beginning of semesters...
...rare for students students to spend hundreds of dollars for a semester's coursepacks. The $464.50 sourcebook that accompanied Spring 2004's Government 90qa, "Community in America" was met with so much student outcry that Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam decided to print the coursepack elsewhere in addition to making it available online...
...Undergraduate Council even passed a resolution in March 2006 calling for regulation of coursepack costs. The resolution noted that expensive coursepacks can be a deterrent for students who may be interested in a course but can't afford the price tag that accompanies enrollment, and it urged the College to take measures that address the issue...
...focus, according to Student Affairs Committee (SAC) chair Michael R. Ragalie ’09. The relevant proposal spanned seven of the UC’s 10-page meeting agenda, boasted two appendices, and included two schematics detailing the present and future configurations for the sharing of textbook and coursepack information. Currently, the Coop, Harvard College Libraries, and crimsonreading.org—the UC’s own website that compares textbook prices among different book retailers—fail to collaborate in the collection of crucial textbook information, according to yesterday’s legislation. With the institution...
Still others have suggested augmenting the libraries’ reserves, but that isn’t a cost-effective solution either. According to a 2005 study by the Financial Aid Office (FAO), to add only three additional copies of each book and coursepack to the reserves would cost, on average, $360 per class, or approximately $40,000 for the Government department alone. Multiply these costs across departments and increasing the reserves system could cost close to a million dollars. And students would probably still have trouble finding their books during crunch time...