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POLITICAL ADVOCACY COMMITTEE
Continue the "Soft" Book Bans Conversation (Date TBD)
Let's join together to discuss ways to support or be more active with your local school board. We want to hear what you’ve been seeing in your community and talk it out.
Round Table: Tips & Tricks for Recognizing & Battling "Soft" Book Bans Session Recording
*Feedback and examples needed* for CALIBA Tool Kit for Booksellers: Politics and Bookselling (login required) - With the help of Bookshop Santa Cruz, your Political Advocacy Board has put together the bones of this peer-to-peer bookseller tool-kit. We would like YOUR HELP on fleshing it out. Please suggest additional examples and possible language in the google doc or email Hannah. Thank you in advance.
Tell us ways that you’re involved in political action (letter writing events, mutual aid, etc.) in your community. Share your events with Hannah or tag us (@caliba_20).
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PROFESSIONAL BOOKSELLERS SCHOOL
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2025 SUMMER READING GUIDE
Looking for ways to share the Summer catalogs within your community? Click here to view the usage guidelines and our 12-week Summer Challenge.
Use the digital catalog and marketing assets to promote the Summer Reading Guide:
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POLL RESULTS: HOW ARE YOU PROMOTING CATALOGS IN YOUR STORE?
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- Posting catalog title book reviews on social media (20.7%)
- Adding to checkout bags (16.9%)
- Creating displays around the catalog titles (15.1%)
- Making book lists on Bookshop.org and Libro.fm (15.1%)
- Including the digital catalog in your newsletter (15.1%)
- All of the above & more! (16.9%)
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Share your display and marketing ideas with us on Discord, tag us on social, or add us to your newsletter list (info@caliballiance.org).
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2025 WINTER CATALOG: IMPRINT PROOFS DUE TO STORES
We’ve been notified the imprint proofs have gone out to stores. Please make sure you check your email and send your feedback to RAMP.
Prep for your marketing, buys, and hand selling with the catalog resources page.
Have any questions? Contact Alecia, alecia@caliballiance.org.
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- Alta joins City Lights Bookstore fixture Paul Yamazaki for a tour of a new exhibit of the artwork of City Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- Congratulations to a BINC/Macmillian Scholarship Winner: Kealie Mardell-Carrera of Underdog Bookstore, Monrovia.
- Image of the Day: Buzz Me In at Sausalito Books by the Bay
- Bookshop Santa Cruz is helping little readers get back into the swing of things with some back-to-school appreciation.
- Readers’ Books, in Sonoma, is helping readers travel through books.
- Alibi Bookshop, in Vallejo, has their annual book drive going until August 5th.
- Wild Plum Books, in St. Helena, made a zine!
- A Seat at the Table Books, in Elk Grove, put on an AC repair fundraiser with drag performers and a DJ!
- Rebel Reads, in Yucaipa, will be back on the road for Bookstore Romance Day. Hope you’re feeling better, Andie!
- Skylight Books, in Los Angeles, is partnering with Altadena Girls on a back-to-school book drive!
- Chevalier’s Books, in Los Angeles, is partnering with prison librarians across the country to get books into the hands of incarcerated individuals.
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Click here for the Los Angeles Times & Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestseller List
Click here for the San Francisco Chronicle & Northern California Independent Bookstore Bestseller List
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- *NEW* Part-Time Bookseller - Mrs. Dalloway's, Berkeley
- Managing Director of Finance and Operations - City Lights Books, San Francisco
- Marketing Manager - Simon & Schuster, Virtual
- Part-Time Administrative Assistant - The Collective Book Studio, SF Bay Area
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Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes: A Mystery
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
9781250351906
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Hannah
Executive Director
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How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
Django Wexler
9780316392204
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Valentina
Operations Manager
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The Compound
Aisling Rawle
9780593977279
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CALIBA RESOURCES
Click here for a complete list.
MEDIA OUTLETS
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This map shows our current bookstore members.
Don't see your store on the map? Check your information on our website, then contact Alecia to update the map.
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Email Valentina to join.
Current CALIBA bookseller membership required.
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We're working hard to make your life easier with membership tips & tricks:
How to set up auto-pay for dues.
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Join our monthly office hours (fourth Thursdays) to co-work with Hannah! Have a question, idea, or comment about a CALIBA program? Office hours are a great chance for you to check in directly with your Executive Director.
Click here to register for a morning session (9-10am) or afternoon session (2-3pm).
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Support CALIBA
Publishers support CALIBA when bookstores participate.
Bookstore Participation = Publisher Sponsorship = CALIBA = Bookstore Education, Advocacy, Networking +++
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