Top ten budget busting ideas

Budget Busting Ideas Kateri Wilson-Whalley and SLA Scotland Committee Top Ten

1. Make the most of the official suppliers
Check out your suppliers fully
Keep an eye for special offers or sales
Argue the case for best value with the finance department

2. Make the most of your cash
If you do get some petty cash make the most of it by using online suppliers.
Red House (www.redhouse.co.uk) Amazon (www.amazon.co.uk) The Book People (www.thebookpeople.co.uk) Play (www.play.com) Bananas.co.uk (www.bananas.co.uk)
Or you could hit the local charity shops

3. Gather donations
Ask family, friends, staff and pupils to donate books, magazines, etc.
Public libraries for ex-stock
Cinema, publishers or bookseller for spare promotional items

4. Sell Stuff
Sell goods or services i.e. lockers, stationary
Idea Sites http://blog.craftzine.com www.instructables.com www.etsy.com http://planetgreen.discovery.com
Make items to sell
Paint Sample Notebooks Recycled Jewellery Get the pupils involved – ‘Enterprise in Education’ – there may even be some money available in school to help get started.

5. Sign up to a Book Catalogue
Credit to spend on items from the catalogue and/or free books in commission
http://clubs-shop.scholastic.co.uk

6. Use GLOW
share an author visit or link with other schools
posting links, documents and similar to the site so pupils can get it for themselves at home or at school

7. Internet help
posters
CPD
promotion (i.e.blogs)
teaching resources
SLA members resources www.slainte.org.uk www.cilip.org.uk www.ala.org www.ltscotland.org.uk www.literacy trust.org.uk www.tes.co.uk www.education-world.com

8. Use school resources
Ask around
Make contacts
Recycle stuff into activities for pupils
http://belladia.typepad.com/crafty_crow/ http://planetgreen.discovery.com www.craftster.org Bricks wrapped in paper. Newspaper and magazine trees

9. Do your own promotion and display
Rotate Stock
Make own displays
Make your own library shelf guiding and signage
Use old video cases for shelf dividers
Use old tape cases as leaflet/ postcard holders
Get pupils to help!

10. Repair Stock
Can it be fixed?
Repair binding
Insert loose pages
www.squidoo.com/BookRepair www.wikihow.com www.philobiblon.com http://librarypreservation.blogspot.com

Top ten budget busting ideas

by Kateri Wilson on Dec 19, 2011

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