[Publib] Headphones for patrons

[Michael Golrick]

Hi-

We have gone to selling headphones to the public who want them, and we
allow them to bring in their own. After the Gates provided headphones
started disappearing and dying, I was loathe to invest our precious
resources in supporting the sometimes bad behavior of patrons who take
things. Selling the headphones also resolved the health issues related
to sharing personal items. We purchase them in bulk for $1.89, and sell
them for $2.00....not a huge burden even in my community.

If there is demand, I will find the details and share that also.

Michael A. Golrick              mgolrick at bridgeportpubliclibrary.org
City Librarian                  http://www.bridgeportpubliclibrary.org
Bridgeport Public Library


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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 12:29:05 -0400
From: "Sharon Foster" <fostersm1 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Publib] Headphones for patrons
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The internal speaker is fairly simple to disconnect, and I highly
recommend
doing it on the public computers.

On 7/1/06, Rachel Davis <rdavis at thomas.lib.me.us> wrote:
>
>
> Our headphones are used daily by children who either want to hear
audio on
> the computers (we ask them to please use headphones instead of turning
up
> the sound) or want to listen to an audiobook, read-a-long, or music on
our
> public cassette/CD player.   Granted, we are not a huge library
(population
> of just over 9,000) so I'm not sure if our system and these products
would
> work in other settings, but it works for us!
>
> Rachel
>
>