RE: on-going book sale

[Karen Ellis]

Title: Message

This is a message from CTLS-L. Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the originator. Selecting "Reply to All" will send a message to the entire list. --------------------------------------------------------- Taylor Public Library has a "Friends of the Library Recycling Program" book case--no mention of "sale" anywhere. We have all our good donations and discards here since our Friends group is currently not cohesive enough to put on any sort of formal book sale. For quite a while, there was an ongoing Friends booksale, but we also realized we would have to charge sales tax so made the change to donations.  We do list suggested donation amounts since people ask anyway, but someone could decide to pay less or nothing at all.    Karen Ellis Taylor Public Library -----Original Message----- From: Sue Lilley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 10:48 AM To: 'Laurie Mahaffey'; 'ctls-l' Subject: RE: on-going book sale This is a message from CTLS-L. Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the originator. Selecting "Reply to All" will send a message to the entire list. --------------------------------------------------------- The donation thing is what Lampasas does. We set no price on anything that goes on the "donation" table. People who want something give a donation at the circulation desk. The amount is completely of their choosing. Needless to say, we save the best "stuff" for the booksale and only put out things that we don't think would go in a booksale.   Sue Lilley Lampasas Public Library From: Laurie Mahaffey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 10:09 AM To: ctls-l Subject: FW: on-going book sale This is a message from CTLS-L. Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the originator. Selecting "Reply to All" will send a message to the entire list. --------------------------------------------------------- The Friends of the Library would like to have an on-going book sale at the library.  I would like to find out how other libraries do this without paying the sales tax.  I understand that State Law stipulates that non-profit organization can do two 24-hour fundraisers without paying tax.  One suggestion I heard is to ask for donation of the price of the book instead of collecting the the sale price.  Do you have any suggestions?    Thank you very much for your help!   Pauline Lam, Library Director 550 Discovery Blvd. Cedar Park, TX 78613 (512) 259-5353 X233  [EMAIL PROTECTED]