November 30, 2001

SUNY-Albany Must Share Professors' Reading Lists With Off-Campus Bookstores, N.Y. Court Rules

By AUDREY Y. WILLIAMS

A New York appeals court has ruled that the State University of New York at Albany must share faculty members' course-book lists with an off-campus store that competes with the university's own bookshop.

The unanimous decision, by the Appellate Division of New York's Supreme Court, could spark more competition and lower prices in the college-bookstore market. The appellate court, drawing on an interpretation of New York's Freedom of Information Law, found that if public-university