<div dir="ltr">Hello All,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for all the suggests! </div><div><br></div><div>Here are the responses:</div><div><br></div><div>

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I've used chalkboard paint on a sign and on a wall and it worked well! I'd recommend using real chalk instead of chalk markers if you want it to be easily removed though, as there's often a faint "halo" until you use chemicals to clean it.  Good luck with your project!<br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></p><div id="gmail-m_-6038677942061573794Signature" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper"><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px">Nicole Uptegraff<br>Library Assistant</div></div></div>

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<span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We put "chalk board" paint in our group study rooms where we have dry markers.  It seems to be working well and I've had no negative feedback on it.  It has been up for about one year.</span>

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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="2"><font><font>Christine Lind Hage</font></font></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Director, </span><span style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Rochester Hills Public Library</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Division Councilor, United for Libraries</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="2"><font><font><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=500+Olde+Towne+Road+Rochester,+MI+48307&entry=gmail&source=g" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">500 Olde Towne Road</a></font></font><br><font><font><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=500+Olde+Towne+Road+Rochester,+MI+48307&entry=gmail&source=g" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Rochester, MI 48307</a>-2043</font></font><br><font><font>248/650-7122</font></font></font></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">

</div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="2"><font><font><br></font></font></font></span></div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">My experience with painting metal with any kind of paint:  First, rough it up a little with sand paper.  2nd, Lay down a base coat...flat, not gloss.   White base for<span> </span></span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Whiteboard</span><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>paint.  Anything darker for the Blackboard Paint.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Good luck!</span><br style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We are getting ready to do<span> </span></span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">whiteboard</span><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>paint on the tops of all the tables in the Teen section.  Will have to rough up the laminate tops for that, too.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Lynn Schofield-Dahl</span><br style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Three Rivers Public Library</span>

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