Fwd: RE: Imagine the possibilities, Martha Stewart

[Erika Heinen <erika.heinen@YALE.EDU>]

As your friendly Collections Care Librarian, I strongly urge that the "good 
home" Steven seeks for his paperclips is not library material.  Otherwise 
you will find that in high humidity conditions they become less well 
behaved and rust.  Unless the paperclip is one of the collections-friendly 
plastic sort, of course.

I understand that if you place a shoebox full of wire paper clips in the 
back of a closet and leave the door shut long enough, the clips evolve into 
wire clothes hangers.  Unfortunately, they are usually tangled 
together.  Hope this helps!

Erika Heinen
(friendly) Collections Care Librarian
Preservation Department
2-1721

>From: "Steven Bernstein" <Steven.Bernstein@YALE.EDU>
>To: <yulib-l@lists.yale.edu>
>Subject: RE: Imagine the possibilities, Martha Stewart
>Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:56:35 -0400
>
>I too have accumulated many many paperclips (I have a bag full of 'em) and I
>am looking to give them away.
>They are housebroken and well behaved (they won't ever ask you if you're
>writing a letter!).
>If you have a good home for them, please stop by the Hebraica Cataloging
>team.  :-)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Fri, September 13, 2002 8:18 AM
>To: yulib-l@lists.yale.edu
>Subject: Imagine the possibilities, Martha Stewart
>
>
>The mail room, in it's infinite wisdom, has accumulated enough
>paper clips to fill a shoe box.  We can't bring ourselves to throw
>them out and so we're asking anyone who wants them to come
>on down and take what you want.  We are certain that you have
>more ideas for using them than we do.
>
>======================
>Kim Raseman, Manager