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This is an inquiry from someone off list. I know that museumpests.net was looking into posting information on bed bugs, but I don't know how far along that is. Anyone have any advice? Sounds like OSU is already having problems... Thanks, Tara From: Paustenbaugh, Jennifer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 2:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [padg] pre-emptive bed bug measures I am wondering what, if anything, libraries are doing to scan for bedbugs on books patrons return to the library or what other pre-emptive measures you may be taking in regard to bed bugs? We are starting to hear about incidences of bedbugs in our community and from our university custodial service in regard to university owned apartments, etc. I know this problem is starting to become more common throughout the US and have heard about library fumigations in northwestern PA and Denver. If anyone has thought about or addressed this issue, I would appreciate hearing from you. Related to this, we have wondered if we discovered that an item was infested before it was discharged from our circulation system (and hence the tie to the patron destroyed) if this would be grounds for seeing what other items the patron had checked out? For contacting the patron to arrange for materials to be returned by a means other than through our book drops? For contacting university housing authorities if the patron's address was a university-owned residence hall? I'm not seeing much in the literature on this, so hope I will hear from some of you on or off list! Best regards, Jennifer Paustenbaugh Jennifer Paustenbaugh, Ph.D. Associate Dean of Libraries for Planning & Assessment Puterbaugh Professor of Library Service Oklahoma State University Library Stillwater, OK 74078-1071 USA 405.744.9778 (V) 405.744.7579 (FAX) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to [email protected] with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected]
