You know how airports and hotels and universities all have those zippy plasma screen televisions with updates and promotions and pictures continually scrolling on them?
I've wanted one of those for my library for AGES.
Sadly, cost is a wee bit of a factor. Those screens are uber-expensive, and then getting a program that will scroll and flip and update can be awfully pricey.
So, what do we do in the TinyTown library?
Get creative - on the cheap!
I decided that with a castoff monitor from my folks (thanks, Dad!), a decommissioned CPU from the Indiana Room and a powerpoint presentation on a flash drive, we could build our very own zippy promotional system!
It sits by our circulation desk and flips between pictures from programs, upcoming program information, general data (hours, ILLs, etc), and how to contact us. We're going to update it every few weeks, and so far response has been very positive. It may not be the biggest screen ever, but for us, it'll do. ;-)
Rock on!
(I'm particularly proud of using the plant to camoflauge the wires. We're nothing if not image conscious. *grin*)
I've wanted one of those for my library for AGES.
Sadly, cost is a wee bit of a factor. Those screens are uber-expensive, and then getting a program that will scroll and flip and update can be awfully pricey.
So, what do we do in the TinyTown library?
Get creative - on the cheap!
I decided that with a castoff monitor from my folks (thanks, Dad!), a decommissioned CPU from the Indiana Room and a powerpoint presentation on a flash drive, we could build our very own zippy promotional system!
It sits by our circulation desk and flips between pictures from programs, upcoming program information, general data (hours, ILLs, etc), and how to contact us. We're going to update it every few weeks, and so far response has been very positive. It may not be the biggest screen ever, but for us, it'll do. ;-)
Rock on!
(I'm particularly proud of using the plant to camoflauge the wires. We're nothing if not image conscious. *grin*)
Seriously.
Postscript: The gun was found in a trash can, but we don't know where. After I hung up with Nat, I started to wonder if the shooter would be stupid enough to put it in the library drop box. God knows we've found kitty litter, trash, and even a dead fish (!!) in there...
Life in a small town, my friends. :-)
Nat (calling me at work this morning): Hey, did you hear about the shooting at the Peerless last night?So, yeah. The library got searched for evidence. Again. We're like a regular crime scene these days...
(The Peerless is a less than reputable, uh, establishment in town. I've never been.)
Me: Yeah, I heard someone got shot in the leg a couple of times. Any idea who was shooting or got shot?
Nat: No, not yet.
Me: Huh.
Nat: So, Greg (her hubby) got a page last night around midnight.
Me: Oh?
Nat: Yeah. They were calling for the fire department's bucket truck.
Me: Oh god, what for?
(I'm picturing a three alarm fire or a kitty in a tree, mewling pitifully.)
Nat: So they could search the library roof.
Me: Um, what?
Nat: For evidence.
Me (trying not to laugh): They thought the evidence was on our roof? Someone slung the gun up there?
Nat: I'm thinking so!
(At this point, we're both nearly hysterical.)
Me: Know what would have been damn funny? If one of them fell THROUGH the roof looking for evidence, because with the roof looking like swiss cheese and leaking everywhere until we get it fixed...
Nat: I know!
Postscript: The gun was found in a trash can, but we don't know where. After I hung up with Nat, I started to wonder if the shooter would be stupid enough to put it in the library drop box. God knows we've found kitty litter, trash, and even a dead fish (!!) in there...
Life in a small town, my friends. :-)
So, one of TinyTown's police officers came to see me this morning.
(No, I haven't been doing anything untoward.)
He informed me that someone got arrested in town over the weekend, and had a trunk full of stolen signs, and they were trying to figure out if one of the signs was ours.
(It was.)
Apparently, someone stolen the library icon sign that you see when you drive into any small town on a main road - the blue one with the library icon on it?
They also stole church signs from that same sign area.
Not street signs, not a bar sign, but the library sign and a church sign.
So, apparently TinyTown thieves are both devout and literate. ;-)
Here's my second amusement for the week...
Each week, the church right by my house has a different expression on the front sign - some are funny, some are serious. You've all seen these, right?
I've NEVER seen this one.
In case you can't see it, the sign says:
(No, I haven't been doing anything untoward.)
He informed me that someone got arrested in town over the weekend, and had a trunk full of stolen signs, and they were trying to figure out if one of the signs was ours.
(It was.)
Apparently, someone stolen the library icon sign that you see when you drive into any small town on a main road - the blue one with the library icon on it?
They also stole church signs from that same sign area.
Not street signs, not a bar sign, but the library sign and a church sign.
So, apparently TinyTown thieves are both devout and literate. ;-)
Here's my second amusement for the week...
Each week, the church right by my house has a different expression on the front sign - some are funny, some are serious. You've all seen these, right?
I've NEVER seen this one.
In case you can't see it, the sign says:
Git-R-Done
Fer God
I almost drove off the road, I was laughing so hard.
Fer God
