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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: cds: On a lighter note as the holidays approach -- Deej
Baker
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 08:13:05 -0600
From: Carol Green <Carol.Green@USM.EDU>

>>
>> Are there any other ideas on how to use redundant CDs? They make
>> beautiful clocks, but one can only have so many clocks.
>> Caroline Dean
>>

Staff from our library usually sponsor a tent at the annual American
Cancer Society Relay for Life.  A few years ago, one of my
colleagues in serials created a lovely mobile out of old CDs and
microfilm reels to hang in the tent.........it went along with whatever
the theme was that year.

On a different note, staff in our microforms area have used burned
out bulbs from micro readers to decorate small christmas trees
at the service desk.  Turned upside-down they look like silver bells.
Just tie them on with a red bow.

Cheers!

Carol D. Green
Serials Librarian, Associate Professor
The University of Southern Mississippi
USM Libraries
Box 5053
Hattiesburg, MS  39406-5053
(601) 266-4476  (601) 266-6033 fax
Carol.Green@usm.edu

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: cds: On a lighter note as the holidays approach -- Peter
Picerno
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:13:29 -0500
From: "Dickie, Betty" <edickie@RICHMOND.EDU>
Reply-To: "SEREDIT:  SERIALST Editors" <SEREDIT@list.uvm.edu>
To: SEREDIT@list.uvm.edu

You can also glue them together into an attractive wreath.  All you need
to
add is the bow.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: cds: On a lighter note as the holidays approach -- Deej
Baker
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:00:16 -0500
From: Peter Picerno <ppicerno@nova.edu>

CDs also make nice coasters.

P Picerno

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: cds: On a lighter note as the holidays approach --
CarolineDean
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 08:36:28 -0500
From: Deej Baker <dbc@virginia.edu>
Reply-To: Deej Baker <dbc@virginia.edu>

Although it looks a bit odd, I have used cds in my garden to ward off
insects
and other creatures. I put a cd at the base of a plant, you can either
cut it
with heavy duty scissors or just lay it next to the stem. It seems to
frighten
off some of the bugs that attack my nasturtiums and was very sucessful
at
keeping squash vine borers away. Several cds also scared off the
groundhog who
was munching on my purple peacock pole beans, I had hung the cds from
strings
down the center of the tepee.

I have not studied this in a scientific manner but this past summer I
did
notice a difference between before and after the cds were placed around
the
plants.

Cheerio!
Deej Baker

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: microforms: On a lighter note as the holidays approach
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:59:38 +0200
> From: "Dean, CE, Caroline, Miss" <caroline@uctlib.uct.ac.za>
> Reply-To: caroline@uctlib.uct.ac.za
> Organization: University of Cape Town
>
>
> Are there any other ideas on how to use redundant CDs? They make
> beautiful clocks, but one can only have so many clocks.
> Caroline Dean
>
>
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