Texts for your classes

The MCTC Bookstore has highly competitive pricing on the texts required and recommended for the courses I teach. You can get them from other sources if you wish, but be sure to get them as they will be useful to have sooner rather than later. Just know that they, erroneously, list the department as Information Sciences instead of Information Studies. Yes, we've told them. No, they haven't fixed it.

The Badke text required for INFS 1000 must be the 3rd edition. The bookstore has the right one. If you obtain the text from another source, be sure you are getting the 3rd edition.

For INFS 1200, the boostore states that the Kao text is a choice text. It is not a choice; you must have that text. The Evans text is recommended, but optional. I have no idea why there's two listings for the Kao text in the bookstore's database.

I just recieved an email today from the textbook purchaser that told me that there were some problems getting the Chan text in for INFS 2200. Again, be sure you are buying the 3rd edition of that text if you don't get it from the MCTC bookstore. Regarding the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules with updates (AACR2, revised), if you have access to the 2002 update or later at your workplace, you can use that instead. If you don't, and don't wish to spend a ridiculous amount of money for something that you'll promptly donate to a library or sell back immediately following this course, you can try to borrow a current version from a local library. But, you must have the 2002 revision or later. You can also join the American Library Association at the substantial student discount rate and purchase AACR2 directly from them and get a 10% member discount.