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How far out does Anderson come to do a book fair?
I am on the Western side of the sate and was curious.


On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Andersons is amazing!
> We used to do Scholastic twice a year, then Scholastic in the fall and
> Anderson in the Spring.
> We are now all Anderson!
>
>
>
> Mariela Siegert
> School Librarian
> Westfield Middle School
> marris116 at gmail.com
> @marris116
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> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> We ran into the same issue - they told us it was because our
>> junior/senior high fair made less than $2000 last year.  We knew the
>> reasons it was small last year, and knew it would be bigger this year, but
>> we had no chance to redeem ourselves.  Since our plan was to move the fair
>> out near to parent/teacher conferences this year, and a tabletop fair would
>> impede our ability to do that, and to have the fair in our library without
>> closing it, we had to cancel.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>>> Yes, we do have the Tabletop fair this year because Scholastic decided
>>> to not send the rolling carts with their trucks. Apparently to cut costs,
>>> they have decided to send boxes of books through UPS so we will not get the
>>> large carts. I am not sure if this is due to us being a Middle School or
>>> because we are a smaller school.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
>>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>>>> Lura,
>>>>
>>>> I too used Scholastic last year for the first time.  What kind of
>>>> changes is scholastic making?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
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>>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
>>>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>>>>> What company would you recommend for holding a MS book fair? I have
>>>>> had Scholastic in the past but due to changes they have implemented, I am
>>>>> looking for other options.
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Lura Weatherford
>>>>> Librarian assistant
>>>>> Argenta-Oreana MS/HS
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