Comments on: Selling Flash Drives at the Reference Desk http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2007/05/01/selling-flash-drives-at-the-reference-desk or, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:17:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2007/05/01/selling-flash-drives-at-the-reference-desk#comment-15030 Brian Herzog Thu, 10 May 2007 15:47:16 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=102#comment-15030 Ha - I'm happy I could help. I hope your students can use them. And for the record, we sold our first (and only, so far) flash drive on Monday. Ha - I’m happy I could help. I hope your students can use them.

And for the record, we sold our first (and only, so far) flash drive on Monday.

]]> By: Benjamin http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2007/05/01/selling-flash-drives-at-the-reference-desk#comment-14884 Benjamin Thu, 10 May 2007 01:19:25 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=102#comment-14884 I've been wrestling with a parallel issue all year, figuring I didn't have the budget to buy a handful of flash drives I could catalogue and risk loaning out to students. But these? If they never come back, I'm out the equivalent of an end-of-term late fee. Whoop de doo! This is a very valuable tip that I have also taken advantage of in the tax-free Granite State. Cheers! I’ve been wrestling with a parallel issue all year, figuring I didn’t have the budget to buy a handful of flash drives I could catalogue and risk loaning out to students. But these? If they never come back, I’m out the equivalent of an end-of-term late fee. Whoop de doo! This is a very valuable tip that I have also taken advantage of in the tax-free Granite State. Cheers!

]]> By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2007/05/01/selling-flash-drives-at-the-reference-desk#comment-13974 Brian Herzog Wed, 02 May 2007 20:19:37 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=102#comment-13974 Hopefully, that's the next step. I think public libraries move slower than academic libraries, so the computers we have now will probably be around for a few more years. By the time we are ready to buy new computers, I bet floppy drives won't even be an option. Hopefully, that’s the next step. I think public libraries move slower than academic libraries, so the computers we have now will probably be around for a few more years. By the time we are ready to buy new computers, I bet floppy drives won’t even be an option.

]]> By: Kate http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2007/05/01/selling-flash-drives-at-the-reference-desk#comment-13938 Kate Wed, 02 May 2007 17:46:11 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=102#comment-13938 Woo hoo, nice work! That is a very cheap flash drive! Hopefully your patrons will soon see the benefits. Our library computers don't even have floppy drives anymore. Students have almost completely converted over to flash drives. I can't remember the last time one came to me with a floppy that they couldn't stick in the lab computer. Woo hoo, nice work! That is a very cheap flash drive! Hopefully your patrons will soon see the benefits. Our library computers don’t even have floppy drives anymore. Students have almost completely converted over to flash drives. I can’t remember the last time one came to me with a floppy that they couldn’t stick in the lab computer.

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