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LVC’s bookstore operates 100% online. The College also hosts an on-campus gear shop to sell branded merchandise.
Lebanon Valley College’s bookstore operates 100% online for your convenience. Ordering is quick and easy. Log in with your school account to see a personalized page with your courses and required materials. Then, select from the physical and digital options available, select delivery details, and check out.
Purchase LVC merchandise, convenience items, and more in the LVC Gear Shop, located in the Mund College Center. LVC employees receive a 10% discount on most items in the Gear Shop.
Log in with your school account to see a personalized page with the courses you registered for plus the texts that faculty and administrators assigned to them. You can then select from the new, used, rental, and eBook options available. The bookstore also hosts a marketplace, where students around the country and third-party vendors sell new and used textbooks at heavily discounted prices.
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Textbooks are no longer available for sale on campus, beginning Fall 2024. The bookstore operates 100% online, which makes ebooks more accessible, and allows for more affordability using price match and the marketplace.
Akademos offers an easy to use adoption portal for faculty members to enter the textbook information for courses. More information on this process can be found on this page.
You can have your course materials delivered to your home address or use the “Ship to Campus” option, which sends your books to the LVC Gear Shop for convenient campus pick-up.
If you order digital course materials, access information will be emailed to you. The online bookstore also has an eLibrary that keeps a record of all the digital items you have ordered and offers easy access.
The store located in the Mund College Center is the LVC Gear Shop, which sells branded merchandise, convenience items, and more. The LVC Gear Shop assists with pick up for books from the Online Bookstore, but no books are sold in the physical campus store. Learn more about the LVC Gear Shop below. Branded athletic gear can be purchased from GoDutchmen.
Accessing ebooks and digital materials purchased from the LVC Online Bookstore is easy! Log in at lvc.vitalsource.com, and visit your personal eLibrary page, linked at the top right.
New textbooks can be returned for a refund as long as they are within 30 days of the order date or two weeks after the start of class. Most ebooks can be returned within 14 days. Marketplace items are not returnable. Items ineligible for return are marked ‘not returnable’ at checkout. If you miss the deadline to return or if you ordered a book that is not returnable, you can always post it for sale on the marketplace.
The marketplace is where students and book vendors across the nation buy and sell books at discounted prices. You can save an average of 60% off when you order a marketplace book. Please note, marketplace items do not qualify for free shipping. At the end of the semester, when you are finished with your books, this is where you can sell books that you purchased that you do not wish to keep.
Check out with a credit, debit, or prepaid card. You may also use PayPal, Google Pay, or Apple Pay. You may also charge the books directly to your student account, when approved by the school. Graduate students must contact cashier@lvc.edu to complete paperwork to charge books to their student account.
*You may use alternate forms of payment for rentals, but you are required to add a credit card to ensure its return. It will only be charged if you do not return the rental on time.
Various shipping methods and time frames are offered. Orders over $79 qualify for free economy shipping (exclusions may apply). Use the Order ID in your confirmation email to check delivery status. Not all marketplace vendors offer tracking, but you can contact the seller through the website for a status update.
You will receive multiple emails regarding your book order. If you have chosen the “ship to campus” option, wait for the “ready for pick up” email. This means that your book has been checked in and is available for pick up in the LVC Gear Shop.
Any issues with orders from the LVC Online Bookstore should be handled through lvc.vitalsource.com. The LVC Gear Shop does not have access to this information and will not be able to assist. The LVC Gear Shop is just a pick up location.
For additional assistance, please contact or stop by the IT Solutions Center and they can facilitate your communications with the LVC Online Bookstore.
If you have rented a book, you will have received a prepaid shipping label to return that book at the conclusion of the semester. Please make sure you are using the supplied prepaid USPS shipping label to return all books. Shipping labels are provided free of charge and provide definitive tracking of your returned books. You can access return labels and manage your rentals by logging into your account. Rental textbooks are not returnable for a refund. Once your book is packed up with the USPS shipping label, it may be dropped off at the LVC Mail Center for shipping.
Books that are no longer needed or wanted may be sold on the online marketplace through lvc.textbookx.com. You must list the book for sale, and once the book is sold, you are responsible for packaging the book and mailing it to the purchaser.