Bookstore

Bookstore
Cosgrave Student Center - Lower Level
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Monday - Friday
814-886-6380

The Bookstore offers a variety of merchandise and services selected especially for students. The Mount Aloysius College Bookstore is here to serve you. If we do not carry an item you would like us to stock, please do not hesitate to give us a suggestion. The Bookstore accepts cash, check or credit card for purchases.
The Bookstore offers extended hours during the first week of each semester. Specific dates and times are posted in the Bookstore, recorded on our voicemail and posted throughout the campus.

Textbooks
The Bookstore provides both day and evening students with all of the required textbooks and whenever possible, used textbooks are made available. We also offer limited reference materials. Special order titles are welcomed. Because the beginning of the semester is a very busy time, we encourage you to ask the person at the service desk if you cannot find a required textbook. Generally, if a book tag is not posted, your course does not require a textbook. However, if a tag is on the shelf, but the actual text is missing, it is possible that we may have run out of the textbooks. Please notify the person at the service desk if this situation occurs. It is helpful if you, the student, let us know when a shortage occurs. We also encourage early registration. Textbooks are purchased primarily based upon registration.
Mount Aloysius College Mountie Merchandise: The Bookstore offers a wide variety of imprinted apparel, hats, glassware and various other gift items.

Supplies
We are able to provide the student with a range of school supplies, art supplies and greeting cards.

Book Buy Back
Textbook buy back programs are held specifically at the end of the fall and spring semesters. Other buy backs are scheduled during the summer sessions. Please call the Bookstore or check campus bulletin boards for dates and times.

Return Policies
The return policy is posted in the Bookstore behind the service area and at the entrance and exit to the store. Students are expected to be familiar with the return policies. Copies of the policies are available at the service desk. Please remember to maintain a copy of your sales receipt for your textbooks.

SPECIAL NOTE: The Bookstore is closed for some holidays and to conduct an annual inventory each June. Please call the store if you are unsure if we are open for business. Information regarding special circumstances are made public through various college publications and at the Bookstore. If you call and do not get an answer, please leave a message on our voice mail and we will return your call as soon as we are able.

HELPFUL HINTS WHEN SHOPPING FOR REQUIRED TEXTS AT THE
BOOKSTORE:

Please bring your class schedule with you! All of the required texts are arranged alphabetically according to the course code number on your class schedule.
Please keep your sales receipt. Refunds are not issued on any textbook unless proper proof of purchase and an ADD/DROP slip are provided to Bookstore personnel.
If you can’t find it, ask us! If we are out of the textbook you need, please tell the person at the service desk. “Outs” are replaced within 48 hours if stock is available at the publisher.
Be sure you are buying the correct textbook(s). Please, take the time to read the shelf tag. If you are unsure about a textbook, do not purchase the book. You will save time and money by avoiding unnecessary purchases.
Please, do not write in your book until you have decided to continue taking the course. Textbooks cannot be fully refunded if damage has occurred. Once you have decided to follow through with a class, please do put your name in your textbook. Report any stolen book to the Bookstore and Campus Security.