Silent Book Auction
At the 2023 NASOH Conference in San Diego, we are going to have a book auction to raise money for the established student awards!
Details:
• We encourage attendees to bring one or more books that they would be happy to donate. Don’t have such a thing? No problem, there are many of us that do have once need-to-have books just collecting dust now. We would especially welcome authors attendees’ autographed books!
• There will be a silent auction for each day of the conference, meaning we will have a number of books out for a day on a table with a signup sheet for each book. Conference attendees can bid on the sheet in $1 increments.
For example, you come upon a book by Robert Albion, and someone has bid $6. You can put your bid of $7 or more dollars on the line below that, with your name in the next column.
Someone else can come along and bid higher. You can come back later and bid even higher if you want. At the end of the day we will announce on a poster the winners, who will pay and receive their book(s).
• Be prepared to bid. You’ll probably get some good deals on need-to-have books.
• There will be no minimum bid. If no one bids on a book, it will be offered back to the donor.
• All proceeds will go to the student awards funds.
• We already have two uncommon, one rare, and one brand new, signed by the author donations and a set of some American Neptune journals!
If you would like to donate a book please drop Warren Riess an email: riess@maine.edu. It will help him prepare for the event.
