[Web4lib] Headphone for Library Internet use.

[John Reynolds]

Our "Friends of the Library" group buys them for 99 cents at Big Lots or
someplace like that and we sell them for $1.50, as part of their fund
raising - we sell a couple dozen a week. I'm at a large regional library,
which is always very busy.  We used to have inexpensive ones that we checked
out but they regularly disappeared and the ones that didn't disappear got
fairly disgusting after a while - I'm not very squeamish, but I wouldn't
have put those things on my head.

On 7/30/07, Louise Alcorn <Louise.Alcorn at wdm-ia.com> wrote:
>
> Lynea wrote:
> 3.      Our IT office ordered computers with headphone jacks only in the
> back, so students were constantly moving the CPUs to access the jack and
> in the process, unplugging other cables. That meant we were regularly
> hearing "this computer doesn't work."
>
> This was a major problem for us, too, with our old machines.  We were
> lucky that the ones we just installed in February all have front jacks.
> I was considering doing exactly what Lynea did if we'd gone on much
> longer with the jack-in-back PC's - it was driving me crazy to be
> constantly moving PC's back into place and re-attaching cords.  Plus the
> USB ports were back there (we had *really* old machines).
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Louise E. Alcorn
> Reference Technology Librarian
> West Des Moines Public Library
> 4000 Mills Civic Pkwy
> West Des Moines IA 50265
> (515) 222-3573      louise.alcorn at wdm-ia.com
> http://www.wdmlibrary.org
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