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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 13. 1964.

Campus Bookshop Soon?

Campus Bookshop Soon?

Victoria may soon have a Campus bookshop. It will cost students nothing to set up and could even mean a substantial financial gain to the Students' Association. So Salient has been told by Tom Robbins and Alister Taylor, respectively President and Secretary of the Students' Association.

Last year hopes of setting up a bookshop bogged down when it appeared that this would involve a huge financial outlay by the Students' Association and a possible price war with a well known city bookshop.

However, if current negotiations succeed Vic will get a bookshop for free, Salient was told. It will stock between 12,000 and 15,000 titles, including set texts, and provide a range of titles not generally available in New Zealand.

The revival of the bookshop plan arose from an approach made to the Executive by the Managing Director of University Books Shop Ltd. (UBS), Mr. John Griffen. Mr. Griffen. who was supported by Mr. Tony Bell. Australasian representative for Prentice Hall Publishing Co.. offered to set up a bookshop on the Campus if mutually satisfactory arrangements could be made.

UBS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd., but, so Salient was told, has a completely different Board of Directors, and is allowed to pursue an independent policy. It was established around 1949 in Dunedin, and is now branching out, with bookshops planned at Auckland. Palmerston North, and Riccarton in the near future. At all centres they stock text books plus many other related academic and non-academic lines, as well as periodicals.

As far as Salient could find out UBS plan to charge the standard prices for books, so students will be paying over the same amount of hard cash that they would to Whitcombes. On the credit side though, Robbins and Taylor stressed that three likely gains would result if the project comes off.

1.The Students' Association stands to gain financially.
2.Culturally the University will have the great convenience of an on-campus bookshop.
3.There will be a large number of ancillary books available.