Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

carolt

Thanks, viva.

Just to add that I always said it was good for you:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1293098/A-regular-chocolate-treat-halve-womans-risk-giving-birth-prematurely.html

vivatifosi

Oooh Carol. Mention of my favourite food group. Thank you

carolt

Chocolate. Cake. Biscuits. Ice cream. Pudding.

There's your 5 a day.

Belch.

Malcolm.

carolt wrote: »

Chocolate. Cake. Biscuits. Ice cream. Pudding.

There's your 5 a day.

Belch.

Your name is Pastures New and I claim my five pounds!

carolt

Actually, my name is most girls you could mention.

Don't forget we're made of sugar and spice and all things Nice.

treliac

vivatifosi wrote: »

Those are questions I can answer. Libraries will definitely accept books that are in very good condition and are newer, popular titles.

The sale price is the maximum we can get for the book and is tried and tested. Generally lower than charity shops as condition not as good.

We sell books for three reasons. We can't have books sitting on our sale shelves for a long period because we get backlogs of others behind them.The first is that the book is showing wear and tear, childrens' books in particular don't last as long as adult ones. What is acceptable nick to you may not be to us, for example, we know when a book has a few loose pages that we'd be able to sell it, but we'd only get one more borrowing before we have to bin it.

The second reason we sell books is that they aren't issuing and we need the shelf space for more popular titles, these are the ones that tend to look pristine on the sale shelves.

The final reason is that we've had books donated and we can't use them. We do try and use all the books we receive, but if they aren't on our catalogue, we need to weigh up the cost of getting them catalogued against likely issues. So books that aren't on our catalogue end up on sale shelves, as do children's books with American spellings (they confuse the children so don't for the most part get onto our shelves). If we receive a donation that we have in our library, then we will send it to other smaller libraries with smaller selections, but sometimes we get given books that we have copies of everywhere and they have to go on sale as our shelves would otherwise be stuffed with the same titles.

Fascinating insight into the world of libraries.

They are certainly a different species these days. Selling things such as reading glasses and very child orientated now.

Are you looking forward to the summer reading challenge?

vivatifosi

treliac wrote: »

Are you looking forward to the summer reading challenge?

I love the Summer Reading Challenge. I didn't when I first started doing it as it takes a while to hit your stride, but I do now.

Having struggled all my teen and adult life with Macbeth, last year I had an 8 year old telling me all about it, finally it made sense! What's not to love about engendering a yearning for reading in the young that will hopefully stay with them for life? There are only two things I don't love about it: pushy parents who sit next to their child and tell them what to say, and the impact it has on all the other work that has to get done.

vivatifosi

treliac wrote: »

They are certainly a different species these days. Selling things such as reading glasses and very child orientated now.

Selling reading glasses? Really? I must add that to my list of revenue generating ideas! I have days where my eyesight is so bad I'd probably be my own main customer .

I do think libraries need to commercialise more: more book sales, selling stationery, renting out rooms to the public, holding art exhibitions etc. It should all be part of the natural evolution of the service, though there are many who don't like that vision.

PasturesNew

Malcolm. wrote: »

Your name is Pastures New and I claim my five pounds!

You're wrong. Carolt used the word "pudding". Pudding is a posh word. I don't use posh words.

treliac

PasturesNew wrote: »

You're wrong. Carolt used the word "pudding". Pudding is a posh word. I don't use posh words.

'Pudding' is a posh word (raises eyebrows), golly gosh I didn't know that.