No bookstore? No problem.
The recent announcement of the closing of Waldenbooks has put many Milledgeville residents on the same page. While losing Waldenbooks may be a blow to GCSU’s voracious readers, Milledgeville is not lacking in literary options.
Catherine Rentz, a freshman pre-nursing major, is not happy about the store closing, but she is excited to buy books before Waldenbooks closes.
“I’m planning on taking advantage of their clearance sale,” Rentz said.
Upon hearing about the paperback book exchange, she was pretty excited.
“If I find a book I want, I will definitely get it,” Rentz said.
Not everyone is excited about the store closing, even if it does mean clearance sales. Freshman Sam Garnsey, an exercise science/pre-physical therapy major, loves taking trips to the Milledgeville Mall so she can read comic books at Waldenbooks.
“Clothes shopping bores me so without Waldenbooks, there’s no reason for me to go to the mall at all,” Garnsey said.
The self-proclaimed book junkie is not happy the store is closing because that is one of her hangouts when she and her friends go to the mall.
“Now my only alternative is Rite-Aid and that doesn’t do anything for me,” Garnsey said.
Victoria Beasley, a freshman business management major, is planning on getting a library card at the Mary Vinson Memorial Library located at 151 S. Jefferson St.
“I was shocked to find out that the Waldenbooks was closing. I had just bought a book there. But the public library has a lot of the books I love to read,” Beasley said.
Getting a card at the public library here in Milledgeville is free and it works at any library that is part of the PINES system, which includes the majority of Georgia public libraries. And it’s usually fast, too. It only took five minutes for Beasley to fill out her application for a card; then she was able to check out a new book by one of her favorite authors, Sarah Dessen.
The library also provides ways to buy cheap books. They host an annual Library Fair in September where brown bags are sold for $5, and can be filled to the brim with books. While this only occurs once a year, the public library sells books year-round through Frank’s Friends, located on the second floor of the library. Several shelves sit near the reference desk with a variety of books sold at a fraction of their original cost, none more than $5.
Another way you can read books on campus is the Library and Instructional Technology Center’s paperback book exchange. They have two bookshelves set up in the lobby on the second floor. Students can take a book to keep or put it back when they are done reading it. Donations should be dropped off at the Instructional Technology Center information desk behind Books & Brew. Most of the books available for exchange are light reading books.
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on Nov 20 2009. Filed under News.
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