{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"ALSC Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog","author_name":"Angela Reynolds","author_url":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/author\/angelans\/","title":"Books for a quarter?","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7m33LUbXeH\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/books-for-a-quarter\/\">Books for a quarter?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/books-for-a-quarter\/embed\/#?secret=7m33LUbXeH\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Books for a quarter?&#8221; &#8212; ALSC Blog\" data-secret=\"7m33LUbXeH\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","description":"Our Summer Reading Club is mostly funded from the sales of an annual Book Sale. We just held our SRC Book Sale a few weeks ago and raised just over $1000. Our books are cheap\u2013we sell paper backs for 25 cents and hardcovers for a loonie or a toonie (for those of you not up on Canadian money lingo, that&#8217;s $1 or $2). So yes, we sell a lot of books to get to that $1000. And yes, it is a lot of work. It takes 2-3 people several hours to set it up, and we run the sale for 3 hours, again, with 2-3 people taking cash and keeping the books in some sort of order. It is an exhausting enterprise, moving all those books out into the sale room (our lunchroom) and then moving them back again (into the storage space). But it is all worth it for...","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/booksale-004-300x225.jpg"}