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Lutherville Lab Book Fair Survey 2025

The LL PTA is interested in learning more about your experience with and views on the Book Fair. Our goal is to find a model that considers our LL community as a whole and considers equity and access to reading materials as well as fundraising objectives.
Thank you in advance for sharing your perspectives, thoughts, questions and suggestions.
1.How have you interacted with the Book Fair during your time at LL? Please select all that apply.
2.How have you interacted with the Book Fair during your time at LL? Please select all that apply.
3.What do you appreciate about the setup of the current offering of the Scholastic Book Fair? Please select ALL that apply.
4.Which of the following do you find concerning about the current offering of the Scholastic Book Fair?
5.Which Book Fair model would you prefer moving forward?
Hours
6.Location
7.Offerings
8.Partner/Source

Stay with Scholastic

Benefit:
If we choose to keep a portion of our profit in “Scholastic Dollars” we keep more of our funds. We have traditionally split this amount as 1) cash (to fund other PTA projects) and 2) Scholastic Dollars, which we have saved for students in need of financial support to attend the fair and as stipends for teachers & staff to use at the Book Fair the following school year. We have not used our Scholastic Dollars to purchase additional items the school might need such as rugs, new books or furniture but could in the future.

Downsides:
If we do NOT keep any $ in Scholastic Dollars, we receive less of our profit. Keeping $ in Scholastic Dollars means that a portion of our profit has to be spent with Scholastic. Scholastic only stocks Scholastic books.

Partner with a local bookstore rather than Scholastic

Benefit:
$ stays local, less restrictions on how our money is spent, potentially access to more titles

Downside:
Unknown profit and setup, potentially in-store shopping or pre-ordering as only option(s)
9.Goal
10.Do you have any other questions or feedback that you would like to share regarding the Book Fair?