text: An absolute disgrace and an embarrassment A bookstore with hardly any books The first floor all the McGill paraphernalia and regalia you would never need and did not even imagine existed Stupid overpriced tshirts and other assorted crap that they try to get parents to buy for their kids All that is missing is McGill toilet paper now THAT I would actually buy So no books on the first floor although they used to have magazines there The second floor has a computer store and a coffee shop with the remaining third of the floor devoted to real actual books fiction philosophy sociology etc But the funny thing is that several years ago they actually stopped stocking books so now they disguise the empty bookshelves by placing the books covers facing out on the shelves If you actually place the books the way they are supposed to lie on a shelf they would have about a quarter left Finally the third floor has some books but mostly uesless text and reference books So there you go nnWord on the street is that the evil head librarian at McGill brought in her inexperience husband to run the show at the book store some years ago and he is been running it into the ground ever since It is the same corporate bottom line mentality that is rife through all of McGill Logic You do not make money selling books You make money selling souvenirs So why bother with the books Um I do not know because maybe you are a university that is supposed to be a center for learning So less books more McGill crap and a coffee shop that is not even open in the summer anymore although tons of students faculty and researchers are still around The only reason I go is the twice a year clearance of books in which they get rid of more and more of their dwindling stock at cut rate prices But I am sure even that well will soon run dry as McGill University Bookstore eventually meets its aspirations of becoming the first bookless bookstore