[ISLMA-Share] Tabletop book fair

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One of our smaller schools used the tabletop book fair.  It seemed to work
okay, but I know if you don't have a percentage of sales, Scholastic will
make it a tabletop one. We put ours in an empty classroom.  I was not
involved--the PTO ran it.   The selection was limited and did not include
older titles.

Nancy Genteman
Highland CUSD#5
Highland, IL

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I'm curious if you all are experiencing this because of your sales
> volume.  I was told 2 years ago that I had to go to "box" fairs.  I had
> several problems with that including the fact that they WOULD NOT send me
> the more mature titles I wanted (the ones that sold well).  I talked them
> into letting me keep the cart fairs.  Are they getting rid of cart fairs
> completely?  I don't have space OR tables to do a box fair.  Opening those
> carts and selling was so simple.  Not sure what I'll do now.
> Connie
>
> Connie Workman
> VIT CUSD #2
> Table Grove, IL  61482
> cworkman at vit2.org
> (309) 758-5138
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> We just set up a tabletop this afternoon. It looks good but were unable
>> to use many of the table top displays as we have mostly free-standing table
>> and I am afraid of the displays getting knocked over. My big disappointment
>> is no cash register. It's like going back to the 1980s. Very
>> time-consumming.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>
>>> So this year is the first year that I will be having the tabletop book
>>> fair by Scholastic. Has anyone had one yet? I have had the "big-case" book
>>> fairs for the past 3 years and loved them. Now Scholastic throws this at me
>>> and says that there won't be cases or a cash register. I am a bit afraid of
>>> the unknown when it comes to this.
>>>
>>> Any pointers? Any advice?
>>>
>>>
>>> *Mr. Tim Yoder*
>>>
>>> Librarian
>>> Harvard Junior High School
>>> 1301 North Garfield Street
>>> Harvard, IL 60033
>>> 815-943-6466 ext.2337
>>> Fax 815-943-8521
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>> Unit 50
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>> Teutopolis IL 62467
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