Update from Debbie Harvie

I just received this email from Debbie Harvie about the bookstore.   There is also an article about the bookstore in the Ubyssey online.

Hello Kim

Many thanks for continuing the discussion in a such a positive manner.

  

In the next day or so, we will issue an official response to the petition and further updates regarding the process and timing through a variety of channels including Public Affairs, the ‘Heads Up’ department head email list, our website, the Ubyssey, through different faculty members and heads we have already met with, our social media channels, through our campus partners, through our own email database and in-store.

We have already started and will continue to gather further feedback including:

·  faculty members

·  you and your feedback from petition signers

·  our website

·  various UBC social media channels

·  our staff.

We will wait until the new school year when most are back on campus to make a further announcement. We may consider the possible option of UBC Central (Bookstore) or any such related tagline and whether these could indeed work.

We will plan to have our first open-house next week on Thursday and Friday and based on its success, we would hope to repeat this later in the term. (I do need to confirm staff resourcing though and whether it is best to have this first consultation when it is still quiet on campus or wait until the start of the fall term).

I hope this helps in the first instance. Please give me a call if you would like to talk further.

We like your suggestion that we engage faculty, across campus, to better support the Bookstore by working with store staff to enhance our book selection.  We have already sent book lists to 8 departments to solicit their feedback and are working on 2 more.  In addition we will be putting a note on our website (faculty area) seeking input.  Anything that you can do to help with this process would be greatly appreciated 

We hope that there can be a really positive outcome as a result of this discussion on campus.

Thanks and best wishes

Debbie Harvie