The bookstore, at 19,000 square feet, is Columbia's largest ever with about three times the pervious space devoted to academic books and supplies. The store entrance is on the east side of Broadway at W. 115th Street. When the rest of Lerner opens in the fall, the bookstore may also be accessed through the campus entrance to Lerner Hall. In addition to textbooks for courses in Columbia's undergraduate and graduate professional schools on Morningside Heights, the Columbia University Bookstore carries 65,000 general fiction and non-fiction titles, general interest and specialty periodicals, academic journals, writing, desk, and computer supplies, dormitory necessities, and gifts and insignia items, such as sweatshirts and other clothing items with Columbia logos. More than just a place to buy books, we want this wonderful new facility to become an important asset for our students and faculty as they pursue their academic goals.
Space is available for student and faculty readings and meetings.
A poetry reading by English Professor Kenneth Koch was held on April 20, and a book signing is scheduled this spring by History Professor Eric Foner and his wife, writer Lynn Garafola, authors of Dance for a City, a 50-year history of the New York City Ballet. The bookstore will post a calendar of campus events. Columbia's unique academic legacy will be highlighted through the bookstore's stock of important campus authors, past and present, and books published by Columbia University Press. Special displays are planned during the academic year featuring, for example, the works of noted current faculty authors, such as Edward Said, Simon Schama and Kenneth Jackson, and former professors, such as the late Lionel Trilling, Mark Van Doren and others. Students and others may satisfy their curiosity about what their professors read for pleasure-monthly displays will recommend recent books from the personal reading lists of faculty.