Exciting times in the shop at the moment. Firstly we have added five new bookcases upstairs, this area is not open for general book browsing at the moment though if a customer asks for certain types of book, they can be escorted by a member of staff to this area. It is hoped that now we have extra shelving plus the hope that we will get even more shelving in the future, this area will once again be open for general browsing during shop opening hours.
The addition of the bookcases we've added so far means that we can now display all our poetry and plays for easy searching if we get requests plus of course, customers can ask to view the poetry and plays if they cannot find what they are looking for downstairs.
On the office side of the upstairs area, these bookcases have meant that we can file all our literary works, again for ease of search plus it means our most popular literary sections downstairs are easier to restock as existing stock is sold.
On the donations front, this week we have had some exciting donations that will require specialist valuation, more on this when they are valued and put on sale.
In the shop itself.
Our window display of Military History has gone really well, exceeding all expectations therefore we still have a partial window display as it is still generating much interest and sales. In the other half of the main window we now have Local History books on display. This display only went up last week and already it has generated a lot of interest and sales from this have been very good.
In our display cabinets we have some fine Norwich City FC printed memorabilia with an official 'Scrapbook' being the most interesting.
We also have a script from the ITV series 'The Bill' on display in the cabinet. This is signed by several members of the cast along with photos of the cast and the official 'The Bill' bible. I don't imagine this will stay in the shop very long as this is a popular TV series with many fans that would like to own this piece of TV memorabilia.
Finally:
The shop is gearing up for the Book-Fest that Oxfam hold every year. This year we will be having a book-swap in the shop. This means that you can bring in one (or more) of your books and swap it for one (or more) of our specially stickered books without charge! More details as we approach the Book-Fest.
