University of Arizona BookStores

Welcome to the University of Arizona BookStores Company Page. You can expect to see upcoming open positions, events and company news. Read our history below to get to know us better! When the University of Arizona held its first classes in Old Mainfor a total of six students enrolled as freshmen books were included along with attendance costs. Any idea of a bookstore was simply part of the original university administration. In 1928, the first unnamed and unofficial bookstore opened in the basement of Old Main, finally selling textbooks rather than issuing them to students. After the Great Depression, this basement bookstore was sold to the Associated Students of the University of Arizona. With the arrival of thousands of World War II veterans attending UA on the G.I. Bill, things began to turn around for the entire campus, and the BookStores as well. In January 1954, the store moved into a new 8000squarefoot space to accommodate the sharp increase in student population. Ne...