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8. Remind Collection Management Librarian to send out notice about Faculty Preview, which takes place the full week before the booksale.
9. Three weeks prior to the books sale; email Insights as well as the Retriever regarding book sale notice.
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3. Make sure you have backup batteries for register. (order some if you need them)
4. Price signs
5. "Please Do Not Enter" signs
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12. Scrap paper, pencils, scotch tape, stapler & staples, calculator, scissors, cell phone and/or walkie talkie, empty boxes, shopping bags, signs for bookshelves (type of books).
13. Desensitizer
14. Traffic control posts: need at least 8 of them (some are stored in photocopy room next to Circ and some are in 154)
Setting up for the book sale:
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2. Move two tables from 154 to Rotunda for register and staff to use.
3. Move benches in the Rotunda to mark off two sides of the circle.
4. Review cash register procedures and create new key settings when necessary. 3Usually, you will need settings for Library Media, CM, and Special Collections material.
5. CM Librarian gives change money to AR the morning of the book sale. This "loan" will be replaced asap.
6. Give money with deposit forms to AR staff for deposit during the book sale.
Ending book sale:
1. At the end of each day before you disconnect the cash register, "Z" out the register to obtain the day's log of totals. Save this to balance register and money at the end of the book sale and to give the copy to AR.
2. At the end of each day, count money in the register, make a final deposit, and keep some for change for the next day.
3. Final end of book sale, "Z" the last transactions. Balance the register with cash and void slips. Give receipts and money to AR.
4. Notify CM librarian of book sale total, total of Media material sold, and total of SC material sold.
5. Weed through book sale left overs, clean up, and leave some for free give away for a short period of time.
6. Clean up on last day. Move benches, tables, bookshelves to their original locations.