The New Middlebury College Bookstore is Now Open:
The New Middlebury College Bookstore is now open in our new more spacious location which includes clothing, supplies, and books in one location. The new space is amazing, and it is worthy of a top-5 college like Middlebury. The new physical space will allow us the opportunity to merge physical and online space into a new dimensional synthesis; this approach will allow us to remain on the cutting edge of the future.
The Vision of the New Middlebury College Bookstore:
1. We will have more in-store events in our new bigger space.
2. We will provide more virtual services through our Bookstore web sites.
3. We will continue to drive more value back to students through our Panther Rewards Program.
4. We will strive to stock more used textbooks that save students money.
5. We will increase the number of sustainable, fair trade, and local products we carry in the Bookstore.
6. We will partner with students and department to bring programs that benefit students, the College, and the environment, like the campaign we had last spring to recycle books here on campus "A Book is a Terrible Thing to Waste."
7. We will provide more open access to book information on the web in a timely competitive fashion.
8. We will offer in-store and online streaming video promotions, events, and information.
9. We will provide more products and services that more effectively meet the needs of our campus.
10. We will promote student accomplishments through the sale of their artistic works both in-store and through our online Bookstore.
11. We will integrate student group fundraising events both in-store and through our online Bookstore.
12. We will seek to promote many departments on campus.
13. We will continue to develop our global leading Middlebury College Bookstore Facebook Social Network, which has brought a plethora of positive national press to the College, Rewards Network, and all of our Virtual Networks to create a matrix of value, a social networking engagement technology vortex.
14. We will promote the academic accomplishments of the Middlebury faculty through the sale of their books both in-store and through our online Bookstore. We will seek to schedule faculty and author readings or appearances in the Bookstore by opening space via moving our new mobile supply and book in-store fixtures.
15. We will continue to develop our Monterey Virtual Bookstore.
16. We will work to increase and enhance how we serve the needs of the Language School, Bread Loaf School of English, and Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
17. We will seek to enhance how we serve the needs of our alums when Reunion and Homecoming is happening on campus, and provide for those needs virtually through our online Bookstore.
As Middlebury continues to increase the reach of the College as a leading provider for the global educational needs of students, the Bookstore will seek to provide the materials, Bookstore systems, and customer service processes, which will serve those academic and social needs. In these challenging financial times, the Bookstore will continue to deliver more value and services to students, faculty, staff, and the College all at the same time. We will become what we are not yet, striving for excellence in all that is Middlebury now and will be in the future.
Bob Jansen
Bookstore Manager
You will enter our new location from a new street entrance on the ground floor up front on the Hepburn Street side facing Mead Memorial Chapel (southeast corner).