[CALIBK12] Wet books

[Ostapiej, Anne]

I keep a blow dryer in my office for just such emergencies!
Anne

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From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Jane Brooks
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 12:09 PM
To: Janet Pedersen; LM_NET at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Cc: calibk12 at listproc.sjsu.edu
Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] Wet books

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
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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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