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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white">Lab testing begins on the first round of selected materials<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">If you signed up for updates from the REALM Project, Reopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums you would have seen this in your inbox today.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Round 1 material testing underway<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Five items commonly found in public libraries have been selected for initial lab testing to determine the length of time the COVID-19 virus may live on the surface
of these materials. Testing began May 13, 2020, using materials provided to Battelle by Columbus Metropolitan Library, and the results of this first round are expected to be released mid-June.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">For more information and more details on this first round of testing and other activities, visit the “</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=3c7e5b3ca34c8aebf640543f9366d991cb478fb0a239067a530c7d0d4eaf491a9830aa5a9e8bbe379c79b2ed3c201fab" title="Happening Now"><span style="background:white">Happening
Now</span></a><span style="background:white">” project update page. <br>
</span><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/explore-topics/COVID-19-research-project.html">https://www.webjunction.org/explore-topics/COVID-19-research-project.html</a><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">For more on the scope, timeline, and committees involved with #REALMproject,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.webjunction.org/explore-topics/COVID-19-research-project.html">https://www.webjunction.org/explore-topics/COVID-19-research-project.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">---------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Shannon White<br>
Library of Michigan, 702 W. Kalamazoo, Lansing, MI 48909<br>
<a href="mailto:Whites29@michigan.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">Whites29@michigan.gov</span></a> 517-335-1507 |
<a href="http://www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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