Library Pass Time Clock

["Lois B. Feldman" <lfeldma@EIS.CALSTATE.EDU>]

Dear Betty,
        The time clock our library uses is an old RapidPrint.  I
don't know if it is still manufactured.  It looks like and is
slightly bigger than a beef tongue.  I saw one like it--although
another brand--at an office supply discount house last week for
$87.00.  The important part, though, is to have it stamp the word
*library* as well as the time, and I don't know how much that costs.
        I was surprised at the discussion about time clocks being
 demeaning.  Until this semester, I've kept the machine behind the
charge-out desks where library practice students accept the passes
and stamp them when students arrive.  This year, though, I don't have
enough students to cover all class periods, so students coming to the
library have to stamp their own passes.  Most of them approach the
time clock the way Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck approached the
truth-telling stone in the movie, *Roman Holiday.*
        On January 3, 1994, our time clock was stamping December 34.
                                        Lois Feldman
lfeldma@eis.calstate.edu                Birmingham High School
Former home of the Valley Girl          17000 Haynes St.
Fer sure, fer sure                      Van Nuys, CA 91406