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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Perhaps a benefit of a more rural area but in Baker, headphones are standard at all workstations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>When first deployed, we used zip ties to secure them but that caused more inconvenience to patron use than it was worth in theft. Theft is now rare; most loss is due to breakage from regular wear on the wiring. We plug the headphones in at the front of the PC towers & often find them unplugged I expect from patrons using their own.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>We do have jack splitters at our AWE kids stations and have yet to lose one, much to my surprise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>-----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Perry Stokes | Library Director <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Baker County Library District | 2400 Resort St | Baker City, OR 97814<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>o: 866-297-1239 | m: 541.403.0450 | f: 541-523-9088 | e: director@bakerlib.org<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> Libs-Or [mailto:libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Cheryl Spangler<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 12, 2015 5:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> John Goodyear; libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Libs-Or] Securing headphones to adult computers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>We have had them. But after all the broken and stolen ones, we gave up.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> Libs-Or [<a href="mailto:libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">mailto:libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Goodyear<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 12, 2015 5:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Libs-Or] Securing headphones to adult computers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Personally I would never put on public headphones. We used to wipe them down with alcohol, but still..<o:p></o:p></p><pre>John Goodyear<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>CCRLS<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>503-315-4584<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://www.ccrls.org">www.ccrls.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 3/12/2015 4:56 PM, Nathan Pedersen wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>For those of you that have headphones attached to each of your adult computers, how do you secure them?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have been handing out headphones informally for two years, however we are now considering purchasing a pair for each of our adult computers. We are looking for a good solution to “tether” or otherwise secure the headphones to the computers. Ideally, we’d like to have an audio jack splitter with our headphones secured into one side and an opening on the other side so users can insert their own headphones as desired.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Nate Pedersen</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Community Librarian</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Deschutes Public Library</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(541) 617-7092</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="mailto:nathanp@dpls.lib.or.us">nathanp@dpls.lib.or.us</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.deschuteslibrary.org/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>http://www.deschuteslibrary.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><img border=0 width=185 height=60 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D05CF5.0735BE90" alt="Email
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