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Dear Library Lady,

We are strapped with our budget this year and we still want quality books that are up-to-date, do you have any ideas that can help us get books on a limited budget?

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Use Capstone Rewards, whenever you buy books you get points and can get free books, with cataloging and processing based on the amount you buy. If you order from JLG for a year (around $800 - $1000 depending on plan) you can order 20 free books. Scholastic book fairs has Scholastic points from which you can free books from the fair or from the catalog.

Offer Scholastic Book Club fliers in the library. You can set it up so parents order online. No need to handle money, just deliver the books to the students when they come in the mail. You will earn free books and points with which to order more books for your library.

Purchase paperback books.

Start a Birthday Club. Just make a wish list on a book website, encourage parents to purchase books for the library for their child's birthday. Put an acknowledgement in the front of the book with the student's name and allow him to check out and read the book first.

Put a wish list on a book vendor website and let your parents and volunteers know where to find it.