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Enrollment | Buying Textbooks

Welcome to the PUC Bookstore Textbook Information web page! The staff of the PUC Bookstore would like your book buying experience to be as smooth and efficient as possible. So keep reading. You need to know this stuff!!

Bookstore Hours
Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Monday –Thursday 8:30 am-6:00 pm
Friday 8:30 am - 3:00 pm

WHAT TO DO FIRST
Know your classes. Print your schedule off of Lantern ( lantern.puc.edu ) making note of the department, course number, and section for each class. Bring your schedule with you to the Bookstore or have handy when you place your order on-line.

There are two ways to buy your books from the PUC Bookstore:
1. Buy your books online. Two weeks before the beginning of each quarter (except Summer), you can start buying books from our webpage. There are two ways to buy books from the college webpage:

• Go to www.pucbookstore.com and choose the books to buy one by one.
• Or from within Lantern, after you have logged on, click on “order textbooks”. It will take you to a page that shows all the classes you are registered for. Below the class list click on “order Textbooks” and that will take you to a page that shows all the classes and all the textbooks that you need for those classes. At this time you can choose the books you want to buy and proceed with checking out.

2. Come to the Bookstore, choose the books you want and purchase them.

How will you be paying for your books?
Two weeks before the beginning of the quarter, PUC allows students to charge books and supplies to their student accounts. Visa, MasterCard, and Discover are accepted. American Express is not accepted at this time. You may use these payment methods regardless of whether you purchase your books on-line, or come to the Bookstore.

Personal checks are allowed with a valid driver’s license, state ID, or passport. Talk to your financial aid counselor if you need help paying for your books. If you need to return a book during the Refund Period, bring in your books, and they will be processed for a refund.  You will be given a Check Return Form, entitling you to return to the Bookstore 10 working days from the date on the check to receive your cash.

FINDING YOUR BOOKS
Familiarize yourself with the layout and organization of the textbook section. All books are shelved according to the department they are in. The names of the departments are shown on signs above the shelves.

Within each department textbooks are shelved by course number, not by class name. These numbers start with the lowest course numbers on the bottom shelf. There are shelf cards for each course giving details about the class and instructor.

Example:

NURSING STUDENTS:
The nursing books are shelved just like the rest of the textbooks. This is sometimes a problem because most students identify nursing classes by quarter and not course number.

For example: Third Quarter Nursing is actually NURS 125.

Sometimes a book will be identified as “OPT” for Optional (i.e.: a drug guide in Nursing; or it may say “One of These Required”). This means that you can buy either of the books listed (they are usually the same book with different ISBN numbers).

WATCH OUT!
Some departments have several different prefixes. For example: PSYC 121 and SOWK 121 are both shelved in the Behavioral Science Dept. They are two different classes! This is why it is important to have your schedule when you buy your books.

Some classes have several sections, each one with different books. Example: ENGL 101 has 7 different sections. In order to buy the books for the correct class you need to know which section you are in (See the example on the 3X5 card). This also happens with RELB 120 & 121. (The Bookstore provides handy red cheat-sheets for the English and Religion Depts. to help).

What to do if your book is stolen:
After you are sure you will be keeping your book, it is a good idea to put some identifying mark in your book.  Circle a page number, or underline a specific word on a page.   Write your name in the book, or write a special word on the edges of the book.  Give us a call to report the theft, and give us a brief description of your identifying mark, and the ISBN of the book.  We will flag that ISBN and keep a look out for it during buyback.

What to do if you bought the wrong books:
Even if you are careful, it is still possible for you to buy the wrong book. If you find that you have bought the wrong book, don’t worry. The Bookstore begins to accept the return of books that are in their original condition and still in the shrink-wrap, if applicable, on the second day of classes and ends on Friday that same week. All you need is your receipt and student ID. Do not write in your books until you are sure that you are taking the class, you will not be able to return your textbook if it has been written in.

We hope this information has been helpful to you.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to call
our Textbook Information line at 707-965-7117.