[Web4lib] Mouse pads

[Sutherland, Michael John]

Judy, 

You'd be better off by purchasing optical scroll mouse for each station
and dumb both the mouse pad and old mouse. You can pick up some
inexpensive mice from places such as
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=5188-2466&cat=MOU for about 4.99
for the HP mouse. The optical mouse will accurately track on smooth,
flat surfaces so you don't have to clean the mice wheels or have dirty
mouse pads everywhere. 

Michael Sutherland 
 
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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Judy McBrian
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 12:43 PM
To: publib at webjunction.org; Weblib
Subject: [Web4lib] Mouse pads

Excuse the cross posting please

I know, this is a really elementary question, but I would like to save
myself a trip to the "mouse pad" store ;-)

First of all we're a not too large library and my job description is
cataloger, Systems Admin., and whoever-answers-the-phone is reference
desk.

In the spring we bought some mouse pads with mircroban (seemed like a
good idea) that had a surface that was not particularly hard, (sorta
like flannel) After a summer of teens on myspace , etc. ad
nausaum...I've found really grungy mouse pads and totally crudded up
mice wheels.

I mean, I  used to clean these things about once a month with a little
dirt inside them.  Now I find that after only a week the movable parts
inside are really coated with bits and bots of dirt and whatever, and
the mouse pads are filthy even with daily cleaning. because it seems the
surface of the pad holds onto everything, and then the mouse sucks it
up.

What Id  LIKE to do is march the patrons to the sink, hand them some
soap with the  command "WASH"

Since that's hardly seems practical, I'm asking for your wisdom in
finding an affordable hard surface mouse pad that won't pick up the dirt
so easily and hence pass it into the mouse workings.

Web sites are not too helpful in describing the surface on these pads
unless they are really, really nice...and expensive.  (I've seen some
made of glass...gee, that'd be great for this particular public
setting...)

Thanks
Judy McBrian
Boonville Warrick Co Public Library




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