c'mon team!
Gabriel has a plan for future library functions that require teamwork, coordination, landmarks, organization, etc., and the plan involves a certain product from the library world's favorite supplier of library kitsch: Demco! You may view the object of Gabe's desire below.
Unfortunately, Gabe lives on a paltry graduate student budget, much like the rest of us. He would go ahead and purchase the Demco "Welcome Library Logo Banner" himself but $49.99 for the whole kit and caboodle is just too much for someone with a work-study allottment of $7.25 an hour. The banner is like a week's worth of part-time work in the archives! Damn!
[Gabe quoted the price as $70.00 but he was working from a catalog made out of paper; I am more likely to trust the internets which say that $49.99 will buy us both the banner AND a wooden dowel set.]
But if 10 to 15 graduate students worked for an hour and gave half their wages to Gabe's cause (which is really a cause that will better serve the group and work to further our goal of organization, coordination and, thus, worldwide domination), we could own the book-loving, hunch-backed stick figure without anyone's grocery budget being reduced to Ramen noodles and PBR. I hate MSG in the morning.
If you are inclined to support a budding archivist's dream, contact Gabe. You know where to find him (he won't be in the computer lab).
7 comments:
Is this serious? What the f does Gabe plan to do with this freak flag!?
I'll pay for the girl,who is a steal at either $49.99 or $70. But, I would never pay $50 for that sad flag! Tell Demco that the flag is just not worth it at that price...hell its not like you can smoke it or put it in you gas tank. Save the money and seen some poor sapp to SAA, ALA, SLA, WLA, ASPCA, UNSECO, or UNICEF!
I can't make this up.
Subject Demco FLAG
Hi Deborah,
thanks for the posting on the blog on my behalf. I was actually thinking about purchasing the library FLAG rather than the banner, as it is more visible flying thru the cool Wisconsin wind. Do you think you can change
the message to include the flag and not the banner?
thanks,
Gabe
Not to be anti-flag but I think our money would be better spent to pad the SLIS drinking fund.
Oh and Deborah, thanks for the advice on where not to find Gabe. Options on where to find him? Anywhere there's food. Or in the SLIS office, waiting for a package to be delivered.
For much less than $49.99, I think this could be handmade as part of a stitch'n'bitch/craft night!! C'mon sewers... we could TOTALLY applique one of these ourselves!
Caroline, great idea! We could totally rock out a better design than that.
Yeah, what is with the figure in that design? We don't want some slump-shouldered, pasty freak with a big ol' round head representing us as librarians.
Now to represent me personally, it would be quite apt. But not librarians in general.
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