Bookstore

The Hampshire College Bookstore is an on-campus store operated by Follett Industries. The bookstore includes the textbook shop, located on the first floor of the library and the Hampstore, located on the ground level of the Library building. The Hampstore features an incredible array of snacks and beverages; frozen and refrigerated foods; ready-to-eat and make-it-yourself meals; natural foods; local products; dairy; and fair trade coffee. There are also magazines; greeting cards; school, art, computer and audiovisual supplies; copy cards; and Peter Pan bus tickets.

Students, faculty, and staff may charge purchases to their Hampshire accounts and have the balance posted to their monthly college bill. Students must have permission from a parent or guardian to charge on account. Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express are also accepted.

Hampshire apparel can be bought online at emporium.hampshire.edu.

= Designated Supplier Program =

As of 2007, Hampshire College is a member of the Workers Rights Consortium, a nonprofit affiliation of colleges and universities which purchase from businesses in compliance with a code of conduct guaranteeing the basic rights of workers who manufacture clothing or other items bearing the name, logo or seal of the school. In an all-campus memorandum distributed November 20, President Hexter said: “Now when you buy apparel with the Hampshire name on it, you can be confident that the conditions under which the workers who have labored to produce it are being closely monitored by the WRC to see that those conditions meet WRC standards.”

Hampshire College's affiliation with the Workers Rights Consortium began when a group of Hampshire students brought the question to the administration, discussed the proposal at a number of weekly Monday morning breakfasts with the President, and with the senior administrative team at the college.

= Hours =

Regular Hours: Labor Day through Commencement Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 PM Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00 - 7:00 PM

Summer Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

= Contact =

Phone: 413.559.6000 Fax: 413.559.5872 Email: bookstore@hampshire.edu

= History =


 * Norman, the cashier in the Hampshire College school store. A documentary made sometime in the 1990s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-BMrasES_g