Its simple math.  More USED Books = more savings.  Well Lieberman’s happens to be the #1 bookstore at UDEL for a reason.   We stock more USED books than our competition and they are all priced lower!   Sure sometimes another bookstore may try to sneak in a lower price, $.25 cents lower than ours.  Thats ok.  Let us know and we will meet our obligation.

The fact is that other bookstores spend their time watching OUR pricing because we continually price our books cheaper than the rest of the industry, as well as offering lower specially discounted books to provide you with even more savings.

WE STAND BY OUR GUARANTEE and we wholeheartedly think that if you buy all of your books at all three bookstores, you will always find a lower total price at Liebermans.  The Math is quite simple.

Don’t take our word for it!  Shop and compare.  We are hear to make you happy and earn your business.  We are a student driven bookstore who truely understands your plight and wants to offer the lowest possible prices on textbooks.

Let us know how we are doing.  If you find a price at any of our competitors that is cheaper, just let us know and we will assist.   We thank you in advance for your trust.

Dan Lieberman
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LIEBERMAN’S BOOKSTORE

EXTENDED RUSH HOURS

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Make the Commitment to a Semester Abroad

Studying abroad is a big commitment, especially if you decide to go for a full semester. But I’m sure anyone who’s been will tell you the same thing- it’s a once and a lifetime experience. Of course, going for summer or winter session is also a great experience. Especially if you can’t gather the funds for a full semester or you aren’t able to fit four months out of the country into your busy undergraduate schedule. But if you don’t fall into one of the categories above and have the opportunity to go abroad for an entire semester- I highly recommend it.

When you live in a country for four months, you become a local. You know where to grocery shop, how to avoid the tourists, where all the good parks are, etc. You get to venture outside of the popular destinations and see for yourself how the local people really live, work, and play. When you go for one of the month long sessions you are really just a “glorified tourist.” You spend the majority of your time running around the country trying to see all of the landmarks, museums, and historical places. It’s impossible to capture the true essence of what it’s like to live in a foreign country in such a short time period.

Plus, you’ll have more opportunities to travel outside of the country if you go for a full semester. For example, if you chose to study in London, you’d have plenty of free weekends and easy access to continental Europe, where you could see numerous additional countries and experience their own unique cultures. You would also get a one to two week break period which you could use to explore. When you go abroad for winter or summer session your prospects for travel are severely constricted.

Furthermore, by going for a whole semester you gain a better understanding of how the school system in that country operates. You are placed with real professors from your chosen country and held to the same standards to which they hold native students. This is immensely valuable if you plan to attend graduate school in that country or if you are considering a career in teaching abroad. When you go for the month long programs the conditions are typically much more relaxed and the classes are usually taught in an American manner rather than a foreign one.

If you’ve decided to just go abroad for one of the shorter sessions without giving much thought to a full semester, I urge you to reconsider. Both are great experiences, but overall I find the semester long programs to be much more rewarding and enriching. It’s a serious commitment, but it’s one that you’ll both remember and cherish making.

happy customer isnt stuck with her book

It’s a simple formula actually. When you buy books at our store, we always ask you if you have bought books from us before. We keep a simple account on file with all of your purchases for you. This allows us to go back and to be able to reprint your receipts, in the event you lose them.

We have all been through that drill before. Bring the book back to the on-campus bookstore without a receipt and get stuck with a $100 book you cannot return now. As long as you make sure that we add your account to your order when you are checking out, we will have the receipt on file and there are no risks to getting stuck with the books.

(Patting ourselves on the back) Its just another reason to shop Lieberman’s. We value you as our customer, which is why we put in this extra step and all the extra effort to help you. We don’t want you getting stuck with your books. That’s not a win-win scenario for anyone–and is bad business in general.

Stay On Top: Freshman Year Advice

From a distance, college looks like an endless cycle of partying, hanging out with friends, and extra-curricular activities. But believe it or not, there’s a good deal of academics mixed in there somewhere. Most upperclassmen think that the biggest mistake they’ve made through-out their individual college careers was not taking freshman year seriously. Therefore, it’s extremely important in your first year of college to establish a good balance between your social and academic life. Here are some tips to get you started-

1.       Go to class!!

Freshman year is exciting because it’s typically when we, as young adults, get our first true taste of freedom. Most professors won’t take attendance and none of them will call your dorm wondering why you haven’t made it to class in the last week. Speaking from experience, you should still go. The attendance and participation portion of your grade will suffer deeply from extensive absences and furthermore, so will your test grades. It’s almost impossible to pass a class without attending.

2.       Develop Good Study Habits

Setting aside a few minutes each day to review the material from your classes will make studying for midterms and exams much easier. The most important thing you can do to pass your exams is simply taking the time to study. We all know that in high school the idea of studying was laughable. Most of us just didn’t need to. But in college it’s necessary since your exams are such a large portion of your overall grade and the material is much more difficult. Therefore, go to the library, a coffee shop, or even your friends dorm, just find a place where you can establish a focused study routine and stick to it.

3.       Get to Know Your Professors

In high school you had no choice but to become personally acquainted with your teachers, but in college it becomes your own responsibility. The classes are typically so large that you can sit through a course all semester without the professor knowing your name. It’s not out of a lack of interest; they just have so many students that it can be difficult to remember them all. So take the initiative and introduce yourself in the beginning of the semester. Not only will you get to know an interesting person but you’ll also gain many academic benefits. For example, if you’re having trouble with the material you’ll feel much more comfortable going to their office hours and asking for help when they know who you are.  It’s also useful to develop an academic relationship with them because you will inevitably at one point or another need a professor to write you a recommendation. (For study abroad, internships, graduate school, etc.)

You can have these shipped to you from our store or you can stop by.   Click on through to check out the prices and selection on our storefront.

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Publisher:  So her professor XYZ, we have a new bundle package for your intro book you used last semester!

Prof:  A new bundle package?  What is that?  Do I really need that?  I used the basic book last time and it seemed fine.

Publisher:  Well, the bookstores are ordering alot of the study guide and the extra software that is optional.  If we bundle it all together , we are throwing in the software as a freebie to the student and the overall price is much lower for the students.

Prof:    Well,  I suppose that might be a better deal for the students after all then, right?

Publisher:  Absolutely!  The students wont know what hit them!!!

Back to reality.   As a bookstore attempting to save our customer’s money, we attempt to buy all the components that are listed in the packages.   Fact is however, that some publishers wont even let us know what the pieces are inside the bundle package until it actually arrives.  There are countless stories of huge packages that occur at this campus and other campuses that are simply unnecessary.    You are being forced to buy something that you clearly dont value and its not fair, period.   Its a huge game of cat and mouse that the publishers are playing.   In addition to that, either some professors just need to be informed and educated a bit about these consequences or some of them simply just dont care.

Dont get me wrong,  we all know that most of all professors are good people who do care about your wellfare, but there are always going to be some that operate on their own agenda.  Thats just life and that goes for all types of people.    What is crazy is that this is one of the few industries in the world where the end consumer, and the actual store who provides the product actually have no say in the process of determing what products are to be offered for sale to the customers, and whether the customers need to buy those products or not.

Some bundle packages may actually have a value.   In defense of the bundle package,  I have seen some that are responsible and sensible as the subject material was technology or science based and had some really cool sofware that actually enhanced the learning process.  When this happens its a good thing for you.   The bottom line is that the resposibility falls on you to hold the other parties in this process to task when abuse occurs.   Its like voting.  If you dont vote, dont complain.    If you dont investigate with your professor ahead of time regarding big packages filled with software and other anxialaries, then only you can be held responsible later when you find out its worth nothing next semester and you never even used half of the items in the package.

At Lieberman’s we try as hard as we can to fight against unnecessary packages by offering you as many used copies of components that we can, when we can.

Sound off with your comments.  We would love to hear your feedback.

We have been requesting desk copies for professors for several years and it seems most faculty that take us up on the service enjoy not having to place the orders and asking us to take care of it.

If you are in a pinch, and its the beginning of the semester we can make urgent requests and even provide you with a loaner copy from our shelves until your books arrive.

If you would like to take advantage of this service we recommend you contact our General Manager Binh Phung at 302.283.9980 immediately.

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