School Name
Louisville Collegiate School

Founded
1915

Students experience a challenging and robust coeducational K-12 program where they are enabled to rise above and go beyond expectations in preparations for a journey of lifelong learning.

Enrollment
650

Location
Louisville, KY

MBS Direct Client
Since 2005

Client Challenge

As a growing school of 650 students, Louisville Collegiate was beginning to realize its need for space they just didn't seem to have, especially when it came to managing textbooks. Louisville Collegiate's Business Administrator, Donna Sutton, ordered all the textbooks for grades K-12. When the books came in, Sutton, with the help of several other administrators, would organize a "book day" where students and parents bought textbooks for the year. However, when books weren't purchased during book day, Sutton was left with the tedious and time-consuming task of shipping the remaining books back to the publishers. There was no storage space to house the inventory. "I'd send books back in September, only to order the same books again in April. The manual labor of packing and unpacking the boxes was horrible," said Sutton. Louisville Collegiate was operating a book system that had no way of communicating students' actual textbook needs for each school year.

Solution

MBS Direct helped facilitate the change Louisville Collegiate had been waiting for. "With MBS Direct, we don't even get books on campus anymore. It's been a tremendous help," said Sutton. Now the Upper School students and parents order and pay for books online, which are then shipped directly to their homes. MBS Direct provides Louisville Collegiate's Lower School with books bundled specifically for each student and teacher, which are shipped to the school, ready for students to use on the first day of class. "With the other book companies, I was having trouble not knowing in advance if books were going to be available. MBS is good about keeping me informed of what's available," said Sutton. MBS Direct took the guesswork out of ordering textbooks and Louisville Collegiate administrators can count on students having the right books in time for class.

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