RPS libraries to make room for new materials

Students had the opportunity to buy books, videos and CDs for a dollar or less Tuesday. \nThe Residential Programs and Services annual libraries’ book and media sale offered videos, CDs, hardback and paperback books to students for cheap outside of the Teter Academic Support Center from noon to 6 p.m. Shawn Wilson, the RPS libraries manager, said the sale helps support RPS libraries.\nVideos and CDs were only $1, hardcover books cost 50 cents and paperbacks were 25 cents, Wilson said. \n“These sales are generally very popular, and you can find some great buys,” he said. \nRPS libraries are located in different dorms and offer students free rentals of DVDs and other forms of entertainment, such as magazines and books. \nFreshman and Teter resident Nick Foulks said he thinks it’s a great idea that RPS offers old items so cheaply to students. \n“I’ll go browse what’s for sale,” he said at the sale. \nWilson said every year RPS libraries goes through its inventory and decides what should go and what should stay. \n“We continually circulate in new and older items, so what might have been interesting two years ago, may not be now,” he said.\nThe sale was open to both IU students and staff. Students and staff are also allowed to donate any old media items they no longer want so the libraries can provide them to other students who may \nwant them. \nTina Walsh, RPS libraries services coordinator, said she thinks some good items are available at the sale.\n“Last year, we had so many students wanting to buy our old VHS tapes we were selling them for a dime a piece watching them get taken out in sackfuls,” she said. \nThe sale is held toward the end of the school year so that RPS \ncan cycle out older material to make space for next year’s books and movies.\n“There are still a lot of books and movies for sale for so cheap that people still would love to see,” Wilson said.