[Grovenet] Thanks for book sale feedback

[Alana Graham]

Yes, it would be nice to have fiction put into better categories.  We have so little space in which the book sorters sort and pack they have resisted doing that but I will suggest it again.  (Anyone out there want to help the book sorters with this task?  Anyone out there interested in doing online book selling for us (Friends of the Fg Library) for our more valuable donations for a percentage of the take?)

The professional book sellers are both a curse and a blessing.  They often make a mess and buy up books our "real" patrons would like but they also buy a ton of books and spend a lot of money so it sort of balances out.

I wish I could think of a better way to display the books so they can't get so messy.  Maybe I just have to live with the fact that sometimes things are messy!

Everything else you have mentioned I will take to our board but right now I am tired of book sale and need to go back to my paying job!

Thanks again to all.

Alana


--- On Sun, 11/16/08, Walt Wentz <waltw at teleport.com> wrote:

> From: Walt Wentz <waltw at teleport.com>
> Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Thanks for supporting FG Library Book Sale
> To: isis23ra at yahoo.com, "Forest Grove local interests list" <grovenet at rdrop.com>
> Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 8:36 AM
> >Dear All,
> >
> >Thanks to all who came to the Friends of FG Library
> Book Sale this 
> >past week and special thanks to all the helpers!  We
> did really good 
> >and made about $7,000!  It anyone out there has any
> feedback, 
> >negative or positive, or other suggestions or criticism
> - kindly let 
> >me know.  We are always trying to improve on the sale.
> 
> Great all around. The "one-ended grid" aisle
> layout worked better 
> than I thought, due to the wide aisles.
> It might be nice to have a few more categories in Fiction--
> Mystery 
> and Sci-Fi seemed to be the most common, but they were
> scrambled 
> together with Romance and Western, so some people probably
> got 
> impatient with the search.
> Several categories-- Cookbooks, Computers, Religion,
> Travel, Kiddie 
> Books and Business-- seemed to be burdened with small,
> ragged or 
> outdated lumber that just took up space and didn't
> move. If we don't 
> have to do late stock additions next year and can sort in
> more 
> leisurely fashion, might be good to have a much bigger
> "Free" section 
> for such stuff, including Reader's Digest books, in the
> front room.
> I suspect those two professional "skimmers" who
> turned up Monday to 
> "Help" with the late stock were the ones who made
> a mess in the main 
> room, ditching boxes of mixed genres under random tables.
> Walt
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