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Booksale Procedures
Timing
Not at beginning of semester and end of semester through finals.
Fall : September 1 - November 15
Spring : February 1 - April 15
Summer : anytime
Pulling and selecting
Reference puts decisions on yellow sheets and new book truck as appropriate.
Technical Services pulls items in course of work flow and places in booksale
bin.
Circulation Assistants may in course of updating/shelving pull items and place
in booksale bin.
Pricing
TS Acquisition Assistant will put prices on books, based on the price list before
books go to storage. Reference will, time permitting, put prices on book or
yellow slip when the decision is made for book to go to booksale.
Storing/Transporting
TS/PS Students (as delegated by the Acquisition Assistant/Public Services
Assistant) will put books on booksale shelves in storage. When a cart is
full and it is time to do a sale, the books are put in the Rotunda. After the
books have been there a week, they are marked with a black + (written on
the green X on the number.) The following week any with a black + are removed
to the booksale recycle shelves. Of the remaining books, any that have been
there 1 week are then marked with the black +. New books can now be added. This
procedure is to be followed every week.
Recycling
Books should not be put into the recycle bins right behind the cart in the rotunda
(because patrons will not buy them but wait for them to be recycled and just
take them!) Books should be taken to storage and put on Booksale - recycling
shelves. After booksale is over, they should be recycled. If it is necessary
to put books in the rotunda bins, covers should be ripped off the books at a
minimum; any book we cannot rip the covers off of can be placed in the recycle
bin in the Administrative Assistant's and the Cataloging Assistant's office(s).
Selling
PS students and staff (cash only, receipts, and money to Administrative Assistant
every day or when over $40)
The Administrative Assistant will assist with having change available
Advertising
FYI - Public Services Librarian
Signs - (on carts when "new" items; general signs in building)
PS
Accounting
PS - Administrative Assistant
| What should and should not go to booksale |
Basic Rule #1: Materials should go to booksale only if designated as
"booksale" (i.e. with a yellow slip or otherwise) and never
"by default".
Basic Rule #2: Nothing over 10 years old should go to booksale.
Basic Rule #3: If it doesn't sell the first time, recycle it.
YES's :
- California judicial counsel forms
- Any recent title from Reserve
- Single volume collections of California codes or court rules (latest
year available only)
- Legal Directories
- Nolo's
- Nutshell's
- Hornbook's
- Treatises and practice-oriented materials (including CEB)
NO's:
- No replaced, single volumes of multi-volume sets (i.e. Volume #20 of
AmJur)
- No separate supplement volumes for (CEB or other) monographs (unless
the monograph accompanies it)
- Fiction (it never sells)
| Basic price |
$2.50-$3.50
nicer, newer = more |
Hardbound or
Looseleaf binder
Multivolume set |
$2.50-$3.50 per volume |
Martindale Hubbel
California only |
$5.00 |
Case books
Text books |
$2.50-older
$5.00 newer-last year
$10.00-current year |
| Nolo Press |
$3.00 |
California
Codes and Rules |
$3.00 |
| Nutshells |
$2.50 |
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