Umm... What To Do With That Useless Old Paper Legislation - Make A Xmas Tree Of Course
Can anybody come up with a better themed legal Christmas tree this year - we doubt it
Here's the story in the Winston - Salem Journal
You'll have to link for the picture http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2011/dec/05/wsmain01-unique-christmas-tree-in-professional-cen-ar-1678285/
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree. How lovely are your Business Periodical Indexes.
So maybe the Christmas "tree" in the Professional Center Library at Wake Forest University isn't worthy of a song. But, the tree surely gets points for creativity.
Built by stacking such page-turners as "Essentials of Amateur Sports Law," "Texas Code Annotated," "Dynamics of Manufacturing" and "Business Periodicals Index: Aug. 1980-July 1981," the crafty staff at the library fashioned a Christmas tree using books bound for the recycling bin.
Angie Hobbs, a reference coordinator for the library, which serves students in Wake's law and graduate business programs, challenged the staff of 14 to find creative uses for outdated materials as a team-building exercise.
The staff responded with a variety of whimsical decorations and gifts that are on display at the library through January.
Gina Jarrett, the acquisitions coordinator, made strands of garland from strips of microfilm. Liz Johnson, a reference librarian, made a day planner from an old, clunky law book. Hobbs rolled up 700 pages from the "U.S. Code Annotated" to make a wreath.
Other items included a key chain using the "enter" key from an old computer keyboard, a bracelet made from a book spine and a hollowed-out copy of "Felix Frankfurter: A Tribute," that can be used to hide an iPod.
Mike Greene, who fashioned a dragon from a long, crunched-up strip of brown paper that was used as packing material, said the staff had fun envisioning how everyday library materials could be re-purposed.
"It was interesting to get these sparks of ideas to make something out of a thing that doesn't look like it," he said.
The library always has plenty of items to recycle, Hobbs said.
"Because of technology, a lot of our materials get replaced by electronic resources," she said. "And because laws are constantly changing, when the laws change, the books change. So this is a constant thing."
Hobbs, who puts up the library's displays, said students have shown an interest in the display.
"They are focused students, so to get their attention on anything is often challenging," she said. "But I have noticed them stopping and looking."
