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Subject: [Fwd: On a lighter note as the holidays approach -- Karen
Nadeski]
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:26:22 -0600
From: Jeanne Little <Jeanne.Little@UNI.EDU>

Greetings All!

A colleague of mine once mentioned that at a former library where he
worked they used the metal film reels to make clocks with! They glued
numbers on and put the clock works in the center section. As for my
thoughts, you could even expand on this and do clocks based on your
University or School's colors! Hmmm...do I see fundraising in our
future?!

I assume you could build from that idea for any kind of theme, including
the holidays.

Just my two cents.

Jeanne Little

>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: On a lighter note as the holidays approach
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:51:22 -0500
> From: Karen Nadeski <knadeski@CSLIB.ORG>
>
> 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

--
Jeanne W. Little

   "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
        but by the moments that take our breath away..."
                [Author Unknown]