Say No to Renaming UBC Bookstore
UBC claims that the name UBC Bookstore does not adequately reflect the products and services that the store provides and that the word bookstore" is limiting and restraining to their business and to t... continue reading »
"Renaiming the building will just cause confussion to visitors as everyone will still ask "where is your Bookstore". Every university has a Bookstore and people know all they have to do is ask for the Bookstore, they don't have to try and figure out what i"
"Affiliation IRES In contrast to the stated reason for changing the name, UBC "Central" has no obvious meaning and invites confusion, A university requires a bookstore. Logically, a bookstore becomes a focal point for an academic community and provides ot"
"Affiliation UBC Fisheries Centre (Honorary Research Associate) & TNC Indonesia Marine Program (Deputy Director for Marine & Fisheries Policy) I cannot imagine a university without a bookstore. A 'bookstore' is central to the heart of the academia"
"Affiliation retired Senior Editor, UBC Press I am dismayed by this proposal and think it is shortsighted, especially by a university. Books in electronic and other forms should surely still be a university staple, and where better to find them than in a "
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"Affiliation Associate Professor How can UBC justify contributing to the marginalization of books. This name suggests a train station.."
"Affiliation TWUC I took two degrees at UBC, which had an excellent bookstore staffed by people who knew their stuff and behaved as staff in a good bookstore should. They were helpful, showed initiative in steering a customer right, and knew which colleag"
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"Affiliation UBC Alumnus Ludicrous corporate branding has no place on academic campus: it's the UBC Bookstore. Period."
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"Affiliation Sauder School I agree with what several others have already said - UBC Central is completely devoid of any useful meaning."
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