Tasteful labels

Once our piano music bookcase was assembled and installed and all the music sorted and transferred, I wanted to label the shelves so that music would get put back where it should go.  But looking at library supplies it appeared that I had three ways to go: (1) expensive and permanent metal label holders; (2) less expensive but rather institutional looking plastic movable label holders about 6 inches wide; or (3) least expensive and really tacky looking address labels about 3 inches wide.  I chose a fourth option.

Looking around our computer room I discovered that we had some laser printable overhead projection sheets.  Perfectly clear, they went through our laser printer with no problems.  We used the address label template to give us labels no larger than approximately 1" x 2/5".  Using a 28 point Arial Narrow font I was able to get all the shelf labels to fit onto 1 or 2 lines of a label.  I then cut each label apart and used rubber cement to glue them onto the shelves.  The result - clear, easily read labels that don't detract from the beautiful wood of the book case.