Books in library as of 2/1/00
1996 books value of $799.00
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Books in library as of 2/9/99
1450 books value of $585.00
1998 3000 books value
of $1064.50 as of 2/4/98
grossed $2000.00 from sale
1997 9500 books total with value of $7350
Pre Sale on April 5th will be from 5-8 p.m.
April 6th sale times are 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Set up time on April 5th - we can begin around noon or
later or whatever, discuss it and see what will work out.
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Committees & Assignments:
Treasurer - Terry
Publicity - Kim (chair), June, Terry
(Please note open times and coordinate
or change them)
Solicit faculty,staff, community for donations through
newsletters, Tech Topics, Lode, Daily Mining
Gazette, Radio Stations
Design posters and table tents
Posters to public schools, libraries, retail stores, Suomi?
Send letters to all book dealers in UP & Traverse City?
Set up sandwich board
Remove all of above after sale
Personnel - George (chair), Dana, Wil
Pick up donated books from around campus and/or community
Coordinate movement of books from the Library to the sale
Student Workers - Faith, Peck
Obtain commitment from fraternities & sororities to work
at the sale (set up crew 8-10 people),
clean up crew - 8-10 people , need vehicles to
transport unsold books
Arrangements - Dee (Chair),Erin, Karen,Faith
Karen - solicit paper and plastic bags for sale.
Invite local libraries to come (schools, etc)
Erin - Determine whether parking tokens are needed and
if so, make arrangements with Bill Blumhardt
Contact Backroom Books, etc to arrange for the
disposal of unsold books.
Find someplace that will take unsold Readers Digest
Condensed Books
Faith - Solicit departments for donations, perhaps thru
liaisons
Coordinate disposal of unsold books
Dee - Arrangements at MUB and set up of tables
Schedule people for open sale hours
Coordinate sale
- Should we raise the price of books at the sale? (if so, we
would
need to let Julie and Ellen know now)
- If we can't use email to solicit, should we make up posters or
how should we get the word out?