[NABS-L] question about textbooks for college

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If the bookstore doesn't have the books a available or will not be able to tell you when they would be available, I would try to reach out to the instructors about three weeks before classes start. This gives them time to respond to you. Then you have time for your school's disability office to get them to you before classes start. I'm not sure what your school's policy is on how long an instructor has before they must return your messages, but mine is 48 hours, not including holidays or weekends. 

Hope this helps. 

Camille 

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From: NABS-L <nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of nesma aly via NABS-L
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Subject: Re: [NABS-L] question about textbooks for college

I guess what I’m trying to ask, is how long before the beginning of the semester should I be emailing professors asking about books if they’re not up on the Bookstore website keeping in mind the fact that the assistive technology department is going to need two weeks to get books if they are not available elsewhere.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 20:38 Keri Svendsen via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> You can also have your disability services  check out access text. I 
> try to get my books a couple weeks ahead of time.
>
> thank you,
>
> On 7/6/2020 8:09 PM, nesma aly via NABS-L wrote:
> > Hi NABsters,
> > I have a question. my assistive technology department at my college 
> > says that if a book can't be found on things like bookshare and 
> > learning
> allli,
> > that it will take up to two weeks to get it from the publisher. I am 
> > wondering how long in advance of the start of the semester should I 
> > be looking at the bookstore for books before I worry? I had a 
> > incident the fall of 2019 where I didn't know any of my books  
> > untill the first day
> and
> > was forced to give the department the rental receit. I would love to
> avoid
> > this from happening again.
> >
> > thank you,
> >
> > Nesma
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