Hello all - We had a really successful Shop Small experience in Hartland led by the Cromaine Library. It included a Pop-up Market. We'd love to know if any other libraries got on this bandwagon as part of a community's Shop Small effort and especially if there were any other Pop-up Markets. What did you do? What did you learn? What would you do differently? Our Community Relations Manager partnered (as she did last year, when she led the effort as an employee for an area firm) with our high school's DECA group to fill the giveaway Shop Small bags. We had over 30 partners for that, giving away everything from free appetizers to $1 off coupons to "stuff." We were given 75 bags by American Express for the event. (The prior year, she had received 200, and while we might not have given away that many - we could have given away another 75.) Nearly 400 people came through the door. If you purchased something from one of our vendors, which included several nonprofit community partners (offering the Senior Center cookbook, Garden Club memberships, community theater season tickets at a discount), you received a ticket for a drawing for a very nice $95 value gift card package, most of which was donated. Our small group of vendors (6 commercial and 8 nonprofits) made 208 sales! We're planning to do this again, expanding it, and, this time, charging a sales-based percentage booth fee that will go to the charity project in which our community will engage at the Library in a month following the event. Please let me know off list at cmarlow@cromaine.org what you learned, if you got involved in Shop Small in your community. Thanks ceci -- Cecilia Ann Marlow Library Director Hartland's Cromaine Library 810-632-5200, ext. 105 www.cromaine.org