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Subject: Re: On a lighter note as the holidays approach -- Karen Nadeski
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:09:18 -0500
From: Frank Sadowski <fsadowski@RCL.LIB.ROCHESTER.EDU>

Karen,  No ideas about your question, but rather a comment on the
plastic ones:  I hope they all have TWO square holes -- one on each
side.  I'm analyzing a microfilm collection, and there's a round hole on
one side, which means I can't use it on the reader unless I unwind the
entire reel and rewind it on the other side.  ...  Frank

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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