| dc.description.abstract | The Dalhousie University Bookstore’s Buyback program provides students with the
opportunity to sell their previously owned textbooks back to the bookstore. This offers
students the opportunity to receive money for their textbooks while lowering their
ecological footprint. Through participating in the buyback program, students are
ensuring the reuse of books and reducing the amount of books the bookstore has to
order for the following semester. The buyback program in turn will, thus, lower the
demand for brand new books and the production of brand new books.
The buyback program relies on both student and professor participation and this is an
area the bookstore is seeking to improve upon. This project conducted a survey to
determine student and professor participation within Dalhousie University Bookstore’s
Textbook Buyback program to ascertain how to increase and improve professor
participation within the program.
Results of the data demonstrate that students are primarily concerned with the cost of
textbooks rather than environmental impact. The results also revealed that professors
are unaware of the role they play in the program. Therefore it is recommended that
further studies be executed in order to determine how to create incentives to increase
student and professor participation within the buyback program. | en_US |
