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our student aides researched new releases and gaps in our collection and selected several titles they felt would be relevant and high interest for our students they then researched to read reviews about these titles and checked e-library to check the collections from other schools after making these selections we arranged for a field trip with our barnes and noble community connection we worked with b&n s customer relations manager to design a high interest productive experience including:

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a module that offers a behind the scenes look into their receiving/processing room as well as the shelving process students were encouraged to compare and contrast processing and shelving tasks and skills they currently have in their position as library aides with those of a barnes and noble employee a browsing searching and shopping module where the students took titles they had researched and locate them in the store for us to purchase a design module where students toured the retail floor to identify effective displays and understand marketing techniques/strategies a café module where the students learned about customer service food safety and food regulations assisted in receiving and processing supplies and then created their own frappuccino most popular module

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after collecting and totaling all the books we used our teacher discount 20 -whoop as well as our gift card which we earned from our fall barnes and noble book fair to purchase more than $400 of new fabulous books and materials for our collection our student aides will be working until the end of the year to create book tweets digital book trailers and displays to promote these books to our school we will post reviews/promos and comments/discussions to our blog.

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