[OPLINLIST] Circulating Magazines

[Anne Lowery]

We have decided not to circulate magazines and to take back and current 
issues out of public space in the library. We will not allow browsing or 
circulation

until further notice.

Anne Lowery, MLIS
Director
New London Public Library
67 South Main St.
New London, OH  44951
419-929-3981 - phone
419-929-0007 - fax
www.newlondonpubliclibrary.org

On 7/20/2020 3:26 PM, Chris Weaver-Pieh via OPLINLIST wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The new Battelle report confirms that COVID-19 is detectable on 
> magazines at the 4 day mark. This means MCDL's universal 3-day 
> quarantine process no longer seems sufficient.
>
> If you are treating magazines differently than other items (including 
> not circulating them at all), could you please email me back?
> Or please forward my email to someone in your library that I could 
> runs some ideas by?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Chris Weaver-Pieh
> Collection Resources Manager
> Medina County District Library
> weaver-pieh at mcdl.info
>
>
> https://www.webjunction.org/content/dam/WebJunction/Documents/webJunction/realm/test2-report.pdf
> Test 2: Natural attenuation as a decontamination approach for 
> SARS-CoV-2 on five paper-based library and archives materials 
> <https://www.webjunction.org/content/dam/WebJunction/Documents/webJunction/realm/test2-report.pdf>
> assay plates were observed for CPE. The test matrix covered five time 
> (T, or day) points: T0, T1, T2, T3, and T4. As shown in Figures 2 and 
> 3, at
> www.webjunction.org
>
>
>
> *Chris Weaver-Pieh*
>
> Collection Resources Manager
>
> Medina County District Library
>
> 210 S. Broadway St., Medina, OH 44256
>
> 330-722-6235 x2940
>
> mcdl.info <http://www.mcdl.info/>
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