I’ve a passion for library promotion and a fondness for library pin badges from my past. When I came across a badge maker at school I seized the opportunity to make my own promotional badges (well that was the professional reason, the fun reason was simply who doesn’t want to make badges?). I opted for a few that I could wear to help promote a display theme;
Then I decided to do a jokey one based on a slogan I’d seen online;
and finally given my love of Dr.Who (and as David Tennant comes from the County of Scotland where my school is based) I went with the classic quote from the episode Tooth and Claw.
“You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have – arm yourselves! ”
I’ve discovered I have rather a lot of vintage library badges (I’ve a crafty plan for what to do with them so it’s not totally pointless) but since some of the slogans might inspire I’ve decided to blog one a week, every Sunday until I run out or I actually complete the crafty project.
2 comments
Library Quine says:
January 26, 2012 at 7:23 am (UTC 0 )
Ace! The Dr Who quote is fantastic. You could use that 2nd line too, “This room’s[library's] the best arsenal we could ever have – arm yourself!”
Kateri says:
January 26, 2012 at 5:50 pm (UTC 0 )
Never thought of that, I’ll have to make a badge with that on it as well. It would also be a good slogan for a Zombie theme display (now must add that to my library notebook of ideas)