When I worked in a high school, we were constantly being asked to "loan out"
various supply items - scissors, glue, tape, staplers, rulers, etc. - most
of which were never returned. After loosing a fair portion of our supplies,
we finally created a "supplies station" which students were free to borrow
from, but when they took any item, they had to leave a shoe. The shoe was
returned to them when the item was returned to us. Once that policy was
instituted, we never lost another item, ahd most of our students found the
concept humorous!
Linda Lucke
Linda Lucke
Learning Center Director
Butterfield School
Libertyville, IL
Happy are those who have learned to laugh at themselves, for they shall
never lack for amusement!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paula Yohe" <paula_yohe@YAHOO.COM>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] Target & Rant: Chained stapler/3-hole punch
> I purchased some coils that had an adhesive end -- can't rememeber what
company -- but it was probably Highsmith --
> anyway - fastened the end to a block of wood and kept these in a small
basket each
> I had calculators, scissors, staplers,
> Each basket had a picture of an item on it -
> at the end of the period - it was easy to count the baskets and take a
quick look -
> I kept the baskets on a table near the circulation desk --
> i never lost any
> paula'
>
>
> Barb Engvall <macbarb@CHARTER.NET> wrote:
> We tied a small horse shoe to a pencil QUITE a number of years
> ago...and that pencil is STILL there! It is really SHORT now...but we
> haven't lost it yet! Maybe we should try the same thing on the scissors
> we keep by the laminator!!! ;-)
>
> BTW... we only used a string!!! Don't know if it would work with with
> the other things... attaching a string to a stapler might be a bit
> difficult. The 3-hole punch should work, though! Leave them on an
> 'open' desk or counter for use and they should stay there!!
>
>
>
>
> Barb Engvall
> =^..^=
>
> Teacher-Librarian
> John Campbell Elem
> Selah, WA
> macbarb@charter.net
> http://www.selah.k12.wa.us/JC/jc.cfm
>
>
>
> On Mar 3, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Dawn Sardes wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have a source for a stapler and three hole punch that has
> > a chain attached to prevent theft? You know, sort of like how you
> > can't just walk off with bank pens.
> >
> > I have seen this done (of course, i can't remember where), so it MUST
> > exist somewhere.
> >
> > We no longer keep these items at our public desks because of the theft
> > problem, but I would like to be able to have them in my Ya area for my
> > kids (the kids, BTW, always make a point of returning things--it's the
> > adults who are the problem).
> >
> > Just last week, a lady asked me if she could use our stapler, and I
> > explained that due to theft, we no longer keep one at the desk.
> >
> > Five minutes later, she approaches my co-worker, who was sitting right
> > next to me and says, "She told me you no longer have a stapler I could
> > use. Is that true?"
> >
> > I felt like saying, "Right, Lady, I woke up this morning determined to
> > deny you use of a stapler. In fact, keeping you from a stapler has
> > been my life-long ambition. I can now die happy."
> >
> > As that great philosopher, Charlie Brown, said, "Good Grief."
> >
> > Dawn M. Sardes
> > Teen Services Librarian
> > Euclid Public Library
> > Euclid, OH
> > dawn511@adelphia.net
> >
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