Book+Fair

For 3/30/09, write your reaction to the Book Fair and Why (type it next to your name below:)
Mrs. Slim - I liked the book fair. We rang up $4300 in sales so we made $800 for the library's databases. I don't know if the DDR was a good idea, it may have distracted people from looking at the books. Some of the pens were out of ink. We may want to advertise that we take credit cards and checks. One of the cash registers was a little weird. Next year we can schedule PTSA parents for longer shifts. At Open House, no one came in from 6pm to 7pm. Only came in from 7pm to 8:45pm. The scheduling went fine with the poster on the refrigerator, but next time I want to do an online calendar. (Google Calendar?). The iPod needs to be stowed behind the book cases so no one messes with it. Maybe next year we'll sell t-shirts for cheap. Maybe we should be doing a student store now! The long cow pencils were a big seller. So were the hacky sacks and the erasers (especially the Hello Kitty erasers). The calendars were 3 months obsolete and were expensive. Only sold a couple. Pre-sales are the key. Need to work with English dept. better to do pre-sales. We ran out of Romeo and Juliet's (Folger Edition for $5 because one teacher offered extra credit. I went up to Pomona to re-fill the book fair as the company will not re-stock unless there have been at least $6000 worth of sales. But I faxed the list of things needed and Mrs. Nelson's filled the boxes and all I had to do was drive up there, pick up the boxes and drive home.

I decorated with concert t-shirts and asked the teachers to wear concert t-shirts to advertise reading on Wednesday.

The "Read Like a Rock Star" Theme worked well. I'll send some attachments. I had a hidden iPod with rock music, which the students liked. I had a Dance Dance Revolution game going, but it seemed to distract students instead of increasing sales. I dressed up every day as a different type of "Rock Star." The students thought it was funny. We put it in the daily announcements and made flyers. I had a parent "all-call" sent home to tell parents to check us out at Open House. The best way to boost sales is to schedule classes to come in during the day.

Period 0: Josh - Overall, I thought that the book fair went well. I felt lucky that I am in Library Experience so that I could thoroughly see the book fair because the time when I went with my English class was too crowded and somewhat chaotic. DDR had its ups and downs. Although it did attract people to the book fair, perhaps it was for the wrong reasons. Also, I thought the iPod was a neat addition. The music was pretty chill. Carlos -I was surprised that the library made $800. I liked the book fair because it was organized and there were lots of cool books. Allexis - Library Circ Desk. - My reaction to the bookfair is that i liked the wide variety of books. I think we did good and it was a great book fair. Andy - Book Fair - Monday - Set Up, Tuesday - Security and make neat. (the book for was pretty cool, a lot of different kinds of books and little items made it very enjoyable... i bought a couple things, the book"the angel", a hacky sac, and some pens) Mauricio-It was interesting to see how the library could become so full of people because of the book fair and I enjoyed it. I hope we get to do this again soon because it was a fun experiance.

Period 1: Vishal - Book Fair - i think the book fair was a good idea because i found out a lot of stuff from book that i didnt know i especially like ddr it was fun!!! Neel - Book Fair, Security by Emergency Exit: I really enjoyed last week because of the book fair. I walked around ans actually saw lots of people intersted in it, so i thought it would be cool if we had more of this type of things. Mayra - Library Monique - I love the book fair! Especially DDR!! I had fun and it looked like a lot of others had a good time. Noemi - neat up the Book Fair, the book fair was good i really enjoyed it but the best day was in open house;) Annette - I thought that the book fair was a good idea because it had a lot of interesting stuff and the library made money for the databases. A lot of people that came to the book fair were really interested on all it had and I think the opening a student store idea is good.

Period 2: Megan - Although i worked the circulation desk, it was still fun watching everyone come in and especially the ddr! everyone loved that. You should do it again next year! Over all, i think it went pretty good. Anar - Library Circulation Desk: The book fair was completely awesome. I noticed that all the books that we had for sell were really interesting. I loved reading some of the books and being a security guard. We should do this often. or...like you said have a stuend shop. Nancy - Book Fair - Greeter and Security of Back Packs Zack - Emergency Exit Security - it was nice pretty chill for a bookfair.

Period 3: Ana - Book Fair - Greeter / Backpacks - m.... I thiNk the bookfair was not sdo fun for me ..but definetly was entertaining Farshad - Library - i worked mostly as a security person, but i had a lot of fun watching people coming in from different classes and buying books, and reading and just enjoying themselves

Period 4: Maria - Library-i helped take a car thingy and i was at the library in the front office Carolina - Greeter/Backpacks Mark - Security by Emergency Exit\ it was great

Period 5: - Cernelle - Library-i did the cashier thing. that was so much fun! the book fair was i think did really well!! - Peter - Book Fair - Security by Emergency Exit - it was really fun but crowded. - Matt - Library- I think it went well but i agree that the games were distracting - Victor - Book Fair - Greeter / Backpack Security. "IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE." "5 OUT OF 5 STARS." - Terrazas - Book Fair - make the Book Fair look nice. this book fair sucked so much jk. your the best ms slim

Period 6: - Melina - i thought the book fair was a lot of fun. i enjoyed the atmosphere the library had throughout the whole week. it was a fun and comfortable place to walk in to. it felt relaxing to end the day watching twilight or helping out. i'm really glad we got so much profits out of it. it had been the best book fair so far. the music was really cool, i liked most of the songs. [great selection mrs.slim =]. overall, magnifico! me encanto! - Jordon - Library