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Subject: Re: microforms: On a lighter note as the holidays approach --
EdPerry
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:49:42 -0600
From: "Baumli,Vickey" <VBAUMLI@mail.nwmissouri.edu>

I used to keep several of them around for the little ones who came to
help
Mommy "do research".  They love to roll them, stack them, etc.  Of
course,
you don't need lots of them for that, but maybe day care centers could
think
of something to do with them.  Vickey Baumli

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Subject: Re: On a lighter note as the holidays approach -- Karen Nadeski
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:58:11 -0700
From: Julia Franklin <JFRANK@isl.state.id.us>

Here's an idea to recycle two objects at the same time..
Take the reels spray paint them silver,
Paint the edges with a good craft glue,  (archival of course)
run the edges through sliver glitter,  wait until the glue dries.
You can hum your favorite holiday song, mine is "I have a little
Dreidal:"
When the glue is dry. Take a piece of ribbon, you can choose your
favorite color through a spoke for a hanger. Then glue one of those CD's
that hang about, from like AOL or old Fed Docs or such shiny side out on
the center of the reel, over the spokes.   Do a lot of these and suspend
them from the ceiling of the Serials Dept.
FUN!!!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: microforms: On a lighter note as the holidays approach
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:11:49 -0600
From: Ed Perry <Ed.Perry@uregina.ca>

HMMMMMMM!  I once suggested to Chris Pooley at Silver Platter that they
start mounting redundant cd s on handles, and giving them away at
conferences as pizza cutters.  Maybe the same thing with film reels for
cutting lasagna?

Ed Perry

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:51:22 -0500 Karen Nadeski <knadeski@cslib.org>
wrote:

> Does anyone have any ideas how to use old metal microfilm reels during
> the holiday season?
>
> We currently have a project underway to move all our film on metal
> reels to plastic ones and it occurred to me that some craft-oriented
> people might have already seen possibilities for these metal reels.
> Someone has suggested spray painting them and using them as tree
> ornaments, but this sounds fairly mundane to me.
>
> Throwing this out on a Thursday instead of a Friday this week.
>
> ;-)
>
> Karen Nadeski
>
> Project Librarian, Connecticut Newspaper Project
> Connecticut State Library
> 231 Capitol Ave.
> Hartford, CT  06106-1537

Ed Perry
Engineering/PAS Librarian
University of Regina Library
Regina, Saskatchewan
Canada    S4S 0A2
Phone:  306-585-5109
Fax:  306-586-9862
E-Mail:  Ed.Perry@uregina.ca