Stephen Abram has posted a seven-step for reviewing all of your library signage. I’m considering his advice, especially #2 (about how many signs say “no” vs. “yes”) when it comes to the new signs I’m putting up in the Friends bookstore. When recently asked to create a “no food/drink/pets” sign I posted one that asked customers to “please enjoy their food, drink, and pets outside”. It gets the point across without saying that word no one likes to hear.
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Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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