Event:	Friends of the Palo Alto Library Book Sale Share
Location:	Cubberley Community Center 4000 Middelfield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303-4760
Date:	Feb 8th 2014, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Staff:	Manager: Peter M ; Coordinator: Sarah R
RSVP:	This event has already occurred

Event Description:

The Friends of the Palo Alto Library / FOPAL have over 50,000 wonderful used books, records, videos, magazines, and more at their monthly sale. These are mostly from donations from individuals, estates, and companies. They also sell items that the Palo Alto library has removed from their shelves to make room for new purchases. This is a very large, structured book sale (more details available below)

What we'll be doing:

Volunteers will be helping during the book fair as cashier assistants, donation monitors, line monitor, and floor monitors.

Cashier assistants help by greeting those waiting to check out, adding up the prices of each book and writing up a post-it with the total amount due on it for the cashiers. (This helps speed up the check out process in the Children's Room & Bargain Room) Assistant cashiers may also act as runners if extra bags or tabs are needed. These are found in the Main Room, from the Sales Manager.

Donation monitors will help pack banker boxes with books, stack and label boxes "SORT"and give out receipts to donors. FOPAL receives 100's of book donations during their sale.

Line monitors let our volunteer customer counters know when to allow more customers into the Main Room. They will communicate via walkies-talkie, one or more stationed at the end of our exit ramp and the other at the front entrance / beginning of the line.

Cashier assistants help by greeting those waiting to check out, adding up the prices of each book and writing up a post-it with the total amount due on it for the cashiers. (This helps speed up the check out process in the Children's Room & Bargain Room) Assistant cashiers may also act as runners if extra bags or tabs are needed. These are found in the Main Room, from the Sales Manager.

Donation monitors will help pack banker boxes with books, stack and label boxes "SORT"and give out receipts to donors. FOPAL receives 100's of book donations during their sale.

Line monitors let our volunteer customer counters know when to allow more customers into the Main Room. They will communicate via walkies-talkie, one or more stationed at the end of our exit ramp and the other at the front entrance / beginning of the line.

Floor monitors help straighten books on the shelves, assist customers with finding specific book sections and directing the sales manager to any problem or concerns.

What you should know:

Friends of the Palo Alto Library monthly sale is well established in the book sale community. FOPAL is fortunate in having a large number of repeat customers and several regular book dealers. This sale is high energy for the first couple of hours., so you'll want to wear comfortable shoe and be prepared to stand or walk the majority of the time you are volunteering. Also, our restroom are located in the Cubberley Community Center with one available in the Children's Room for volunteers only. You'll want to take a moment before your shift to find a facility near your assigned area. Snacks and water are provided in each room.

Where to Meet:

Please meet the Sales Day Manager in the Main Room. Once you've checked in you'll be given your assignment, name tag & FOPAL books sale location map. Then some will be off to introduce themselves to our regularly scheduled sales room volunteers. Main Room volunteers will be staying to receive a brief training, tour...

Friends of the Palo Alto Library (FOPAL):

Friends of the Palo Alto Library (FOPAL) is one of the oldest friends organizations in Northern Californian, this year FOPAL will celibate 80 year of community library support! FOPAL holds a monthly used book sale (Second weekend of each month) that generates approximately $20,000. FOPAL's book sale is regarded as the second best friends book sale in Northern California, (San Francisco is #1) All proceeds go directly to the Palo Alto Community Libraries. To date FOPAL has donated over 3 million dollars to fund much needed library literacy / programming.