[CALIBK12] Wet books

[Jane Brooks]

Put out a container of plastic bags with a sign on rainy days, explain that even rain water has germs that cause mold and mildew to grow and that the damage can't be repaired.  Also, stress the cost of texts and how precious our library books are.  (I once took a wet book to the ladies rooms and used the hand blow dryer to save it...it worked.)
 
Jane Brooks
Library Media Teacher
Cabrillo High School
2001 Santa Fe Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90810
 
562/951-7736


>>> Janet Pedersen <jpedersen at coldspringschool.net> 5/4/2009 11:19 AM >>>

I'm in a K-6 school and this year we've had several books returned  
that were wet (and some growing mold) from being in backpacks with  
water bottles or a thermos that wasn't closed.  I'm going to talk to  
all students about it at the beginning of school next year when I do  
my book care talks but does anyone have any suggestions?  I'm thinking  
of recommending not putting books in backpacks if there's a bottle of  
liquid in the backpack.  Any other ideas?

Thanks so much,

Janet Pedersen
Librarian
Cold Spring School
Santa Barbara, CA 93108
jpedersen at coldspringschool.net 
website: http://www.coldspringschool.net/component/option,com_uhp2/Itemid,98/task,viewpage/user_id,83/ 
blog:
http://csslibraryblog.blogspot.com/ 

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that  
threshold,
that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever,  
for the
better. ~~Barack Obama (from a speech to the American Library  
Association June 25, 2005)





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