One thing we discovered in our last book sale, a few weeks ago was that bundling the magazines together made them sell
better. We bundled about 10 magazines together (one year's worth or so) with string or rubber bands, and priced the whole bundle for $1. The previous year, the same magazines offered for sale individually for a nickel a piece did not sell at all. This
year, people bought all the bundles we had!
Don't ask me why....
Rachel Mendez
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Portland OR
-----Original Message-----
From: "K.A.B." <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Dec 18, 2003 10:47 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] advice for small library challenge
The general-interest magazines could be offered to a prison library.
(A cautionary note: If the items have mailing labels bearing your
personal name -- not just the institutional name -- then the labels
should be removed or effaced before donation to the prison. Perhaps
a museum volunteer could help with this.)
Does the Santa Barbara Public Library system hold a book sale?
Even if they don't need the periodicals for their own collection,
they might be able to get rid of them during a sale.
--K.A. Bayruns
Seattle, Washington
At 07:53 AM 12/18/03 -1000, Ellen Chapman wrote:
>How about offering them to a retirement home, hospital, homeless shelter,
>service organization?
>
>|((| Ellen Chapman
>|))| University of Hawaii at Manoa Library
>
>
>On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Heather Brodhead wrote:
>
> > Advice needed from any of you out there who might have dealt with this
> problem: I'm withdrawing many serial runs and partial runs. ( I'm
> currently tripping over American Heritage, Horizon and some museums'
> bulletins.) A solo librarian working 3 days a week, I don't have the
> time to offer them to all of you because it takes too much time to sort
> out the ones you'd like, wrap for mailing, and take them to the post
> office. So, I offer them to our Univ. of Cal. Santa Barbara, our public
> library, and the local city college. If they don't want them, I ask a
> couple of local dealers. If THEY don't want them, what shall I
> do??? Even the thrift store doesn't want them. I hate just throwing
> them out. What a waste.
> >
> > Is there anyone out there who has confronted this problem? Any ideas?
> >
> > Heather Brodhead
> > Librarian, Fearing Library
> > Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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