GIFSL*: 40. Signage: Welcome

Of course you welcome people to your library - don't you?

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We recently added a WELCOME sign.

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I could, of course, try telling you that we commissioned this banner at tremendous expense, the aqua colour chosen to match the foyer, and so forth and so on.

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Trouble is, if you've been reading this blog for any time at all, you'd be calling me a liar and, fixing me with THAT sort of beady eye, asking me for the truth.

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Remember the floor cushions we made from banners?  The banners came from Reverse Garbage, which had them from The Rocks Authority (for those to whom this is mysterious, The Rocks is one of the most historic areas of white settlement Sydney, and houses museums and encourages tourism - it's on the southern end of the Harbour Bridge.  So it's a place where banners happen, and clearly an Authority run by wise good people who send their banners to Reverse Garbage when they've finished with them, so their banners will find new homes). 

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Where was I?

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Ah yes, at Reverse Garbage, hauling through the banner box in search of treasure.  Not only did I find the purple and green banners which became floor cushions, but also a couple of these WELCOME banners (and nary a mention of the Rocks on them anywhere).

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Oh, by the way, I took all the ones I found while I was there.  Reverse Garbage is the kind of place where you don't know what you're going to find until you find it, and then you snaffle it because it won't be there next time.  We hung this from one of the rafters using self-adhesive hook/loop tape (Velcro).  And it will have a longer life recycled to greet those coming to its new home.  (Even if, because was hung vertically at the Rocks, the word WELCOME on the back is upside down...!).

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There is, however, nothing at all to stop you finding all sorts of ways to WELCOME people into your school library.  Is there?  Go outside your library, walk in and see when you notice the first signs of welcome (whether they're signs or something else).  Can you improve on what's there now?

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Cheers

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Ruth.

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