Bookshop in NUI Maynooth

Quick Question

Can anyone go into the bookshop and buy a book or do you have to be a student?

Holsten

I'm pretty sure you can, they don't ask for a student card or anything.

dory

Yup anyone can.

r3nu4l

I remember years ago when I was a first year in Maynooth (1992), one of the barmen from Caufields used to come down to the Bookshop on the old campus and buy the Irish times because it was sold at student price in the college

Yep, anyone can buy a book from the NUIM bookshop, staff, students, locals, visitors, tourists, martians etc!

brianthebard

Its quite expensive though and most of the non-college stock is the same as the bookshop in the town, they are owned by the same people afaik. whatcha looking for out of interest?

Firetrap

Good to see some things haven't changed as regards book prices. I remember during my student days I had to buy a Rotring pen set for Geography practicals. The bookshop was so expensive that it worked out cheaper to catch a bus into town and buy the pens there than to walk across the campus and buy the set in the college bookshop. There has to be something wrong with that

brianthebard

That's awful! I saved 15quid on a book this year by buying it on amazon, its a joke really. And if you buy a book one year the next year its up to a fiver more expensive. Inflation can't be that much surely??

Rozabeez

Any chance its possible to avoid buying ALL of the books listes by using some of the library ones?

John

There really needs to be an SU run second hand bookshop like in TCD. Stuff like standard first year textbooks in subjects people tend to drop when they go into second year and some of the more specialist books that people have no need for when they leave college are usually quite cheap.

Doesn't really affect me as most of the books I need are so specialised that I need to order them anyway.

brianthebard

Rozabeez, yes there is a chance, but there aren't always many copies of the book in the library, so you need to be on the ball and get them early.

John there is a second hand bookshop, I'm not sure if its open for the whole year or jus part of the first semester.

r3nu4l

There have also always been a few b*stards who will find the books they want and then hide them in the library so that there will alwys be a copy available. I remember a guy in my year hiding Biology books in the Periodicals section. When I was in Third year in 1996 I remember being only the second person to take out a new Genetics book. When I got home the pages relevant to our course had been neatly sliced out with a scalpel and were missing! :mad: So obviously, the person who took it out before me was the culprit. I'd love to have known who that was. It took the library 5 weeks to replace the book pages.

Rozabeez

tbh wouldn't photocopying pages that you need then going at them with a stapler be a better idea? There's a few libraries around that could be worth looking at if you can't find things in the college one. Leixlip, Celbridge, Maynooth and any other Kildare ones only require the one card.

John

brianthebard wrote:

John there is a second hand bookshop, I'm not sure if its open for the whole year or jus part of the first semester.

I didn't know that. I actually don't know much about Maynooth as I'm usually hiding in a cupboard

brianthebard

Yeah people are still hiding books r3nu4l, there are four copies of a history book I wanted last week, two haven't been taken out but they aren't on the shelves!
What year are you in John? Maynooth is a bit of a DIY college, in that if you don't go out and find out everything for yourself you won't find out anything!

John

I'm doing a PhD, I'm fairly self-contained so I haven't found the need to find things out but the few things I've had to do with administration have been an adventure!

Holsten

They like their money in that place too, your one at the till wouldn't let me off 20cent.. hahah.

Firetrap

Ah well, you see if she let you off 20c, everyone else would want that as well. All those 20c add up and we can't have that

Thanks for the replies and the interesting info about people hiding books!!
I got the book I wanted, it was an economics book and I need it now! I also could only find it for 5 euros cheaper on amazon before including delivery charges!!

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Rozabeez wrote:

There's a few libraries around that could be worth looking at if you can't find things in the college one. Leixlip, Celbridge, Maynooth and any other Kildare ones only require the one card.

They would almost certainly not stock academic books, at least not to the extent that would be needed for the specialisation required after first year etc. Completely different type of library.

Photocopying can be expensive, particularly if you have three chapters to photocopy. If you include the labour, photocopying a book is almost the price of the book, which is in colour, bound, and printed on both sides of the page.

And isn't photocopying a whole book illegal, anyway?

ballyarse

the second hand book shop is run from a small cupboard of a room in the SU across from the main office for the first few weeks of each semester!! i'd suggest waterstones or the second hand college bookshop in town (dublin). Also if amazon is too expensive go on to campusbooks4less.com or similar sites which are quite cheap!!

Zapp Brannigan

Holsten wrote:

They like their money in that place too, your one at the till wouldn't let me off 20cent.. hahah.

They let me off 50c. Ha!