Brian Herzog has another great post on Swiss Army Librarian:
Here's a more in-your-face twist on the Library Value Calculator. Another library in my consortium figured out how to display the total cost of a patron's items on their checkout receipt, and since we never let a good idea go to waste, we adopted it in my library, too.
Basically, it's a little macro that pulls the cost figure from each item's record, adds them all up, and provides a total. We present it in kind of a cutesy context, but the intent is to show people how much they save by using the library. Check it out:
A neat idea. Read the whole post.
Because she knows I like to follow Brian Herzog's Swiss Army Librarian, my friend Trapdoor Spider showed me the following:
Now, granted, I sometimes feel as if my customers expect me to be this versatile, but...
...how in the heck do you actually hold it to do anything?!
Mike
BTW, note the price: a mere $1,400 (plus $6.95 for gift wrapping).
