MEMBER LIBRARY WEEKLY BULLETINMEMBER LIBRARY WEEKLY BULLETIN
No. 00-21
May 26, 2000
KAREN CREENAN, Executive Director
1. For your information, here is my e-mail address: kcreenan@flls.org
2. We are pleased to announce that the East Genoa Community Church has established a reading room. The Finger Lakes Library System is providing support services under the Outreach Department program of services to agencies. Their hours of operation are: Monday: 12-4 PM, Tuesday: 6-8 PM, Wednesday: 10 – noon (includes story hour for little ones) and Saturday: 10 – noon. The reading room is located near the corner of Rt. 34 and East Genoa Road.
3. I have started my member library visits. You will be receiving a call from Carol Hendrix to schedule an appointment for me to visit your library in the near future. I am looking forward to visiting each member library.
KATHY PARKHURST, Reference and Interlibrary loan Coordinator
*ATTENTION: There will not be a delivery from Finger Lakes Library System today, May 26th.
Substitute Drivers Needed -
We are looking to expand our list of Substitute Drivers who could be on call to fill in for our regular Drivers on vacation days or sick days. It's an ideal job for someone who only wants occasional work - like a retiree or someone who has a flexible schedule. Job requires a clean driving record, ability to lift bags and boxes of books, and a pleasant, courteous personality. Familiarity with driving a panel van and with the regional roads is desirable. Typical work day is from 9:00-4:00. Contact Kathy Parkhurst at 273-4074, ext. 32.
ARLENE BLY, Administration
We have a supply of large canvas bags (14" x 17" x 9") for sale… they have a natural color body with bright blue handles and bottoms. If you are interested in purchasing one or more of these bags, at $15.00 each, please call me at extension 23. Thanks.509 Esty Street
REGINA LENNOX, 2000 Book Sale Chairman
Ithaca New York 14850
607-272-2223
www.booksale.org
E-mail booksale@clarityconnect.com
April 20, 2000
The Friends of the Library Book Sale Advisory Board considered how and when to accept discards from other library sales. For many years we have been the recipients of leftovers from other book sales. Sometime this has been very profitable for the Friends. But there are many times when it has not. Some book sale chairmen invite other library book sales to take books, which they think will sell at their upcoming event. Once this is done the remaining books are brought to our site. This means that we are getting the undesirable books. Almost all book sale chairmen are very good about not bringing Reader's Digest Condensed books, yearbooks for encyclopedias, books that are falling apart, law statute books, books with mold, etc.
Books, which we know will not sell, we recycle. Paperbacks are put in our recycling dumpster. The hardcover must have the covers ripped off. Our recycling and trash bill in 1999 was more than $1,000. It also takes a lot of volunteer hours. When your books arrive, we discard 30-50% of them. Then the rest are sorted to their specific category where more are discarded by our fine sorters. Of all our donations 40,000 additional books had to be discarded after our fall sale.
I hope that you can understand our situation. For this reason we are asking if you have a library book sale and would like the Friends to take your leftovers, please let us come to your site and select the ones we think we can sell. This will save you the process of bringing them to us. Additionally it will save sorting books we cannot sell. Give us a call at 272-2223 to make arrangements. I hope that this will work for both of us.
As always we thank you for thinking of the Friends.
Regina Lennox
2000 Book Sale Chairman
TCPL Friends of the Library