05/09/2023
By Tom Miliano

UMass Lowell’s River Hawk Shop will welcome Valore Campus as its new management company in July.

During negotiations, university leaders were impressed by Valore Campus’s commitment to affordable textbooks and course materials, its plans to refresh River Hawk merchandise, and its goals to expand engagement on campus and develop community partnerships to benefit the campus community.

Current management company Follett will continue to manage the bookstore until July’s transition. Summer session 1 and 2 textbook adoptions should continue to be registered with Follett Discover.

Any questions pertaining to summer textbooks can be directed to bookstore@uml.edu.

We are working to ensure this transition will be seamless with no break in service for faculty, students, and patrons. Fall textbook adoptions will be available shortly via a new system called Valore Collect.

The Provost’s Office will issue a communication to faculty detailing how to access Valore Collect as well as training opportunities in the system. Any fall textbook adoptions that were previously entered in Follett Discover will be automatically carried over to Valore Collect.

Any questions about fall textbooks can be directed to Richard_Cash@uml.edu, who is coordinating the management transition for the university.