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Monday Sep 27, 2010

A new year, a new shop, a new opportunity!

Hello! It's been a while, but with a new semester starting today (after the carnage of freshers) I think this is a good time to have a little update on what's going on up here.

Bookends has officially been open again for a week, after the hard work of several of our volunteers over summer to organise the shelves and make a good start on our filing - and I have to say, the shop is already looking quite good!

As I said before, the new shop is about 3 times the size of our old space, with plenty more shelving and a whole load of sofas and beanbags. Although we don't have the cafe facilities we were originally gunning for, we do at least have a coffee machine offering the cheapest coffee on campus - with the proceeds being split between the cafe downstairs and our Charities Campaign.

The shop is already beginning to get busier as people realise where we are and what we provide, which is great news as the shop could often prove to be a little empty last year. As a member of the marketing committee (and gunning for marketing director this year, among other positions on the committee...) I've already had some advertising postcards made up to increase our visibility around campus, as we previously had no real advertising of our own. We have also put up signs around the new SU centre, although a lot more still needs to be done, with a poster campaign hopefully on the way as soon as I enlist some help!

During freshers week we relied largely on the help of freshers week volunteers, which has been fantastic for helping us to enlist new volunteers and for advertisement through word of mouth. However, it has also been a big indication of how many volunteers from last year are now graduated, which could make the first few weeks of term difficult until we have our new volunteers trained up and a routine back up. I guess we'll just have to see how it goes.

Bit of an essay, but that's all I've got for now - I'll check back soon with jucier schemes. Fi.

Posted by Fiona ( 10:30 AM )
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