<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">You kits look <b>amazing</b>-- probably why they are so tempting for little hands!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Our STREAM Kits are part of our Library of Things. Descriptive cards are on display, but kits are stored in the back room.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">We have Backpacks of Learning, and Early Literacy Book Bundles-- but those are all atop the bookshelves, and largely out of reach.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 11:32 AM Amelia Chea via Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi, <div><br></div><div>We used to lock our book club bags. I don't know who bought them and where they got it from, but I found similar ones on shein here: <a href="https://us.shein.com/Metal-Mini-Dial-Digits-Code-Lock-Padlock-Suitcase-Combination-Padlock-Safety-Travel-Security-For-Luggage-TSA-Approved-Cable-Luggage-Locks-for-Luggage-Suitcase-Carry-On-Backpack-Laptop-Bag-or-Purse-p-16869591-cat-4289.html?main_attr=27_601&mallCode=1" target="_blank">https://us.shein.com/Metal-Mini-Dial-Digits-Code-Lock-Padlock-Suitcase-Combination-Padlock-Safety-Travel-Security-For-Luggage-TSA-Approved-Cable-Luggage-Locks-for-Luggage-Suitcase-Carry-On-Backpack-Laptop-Bag-or-Purse-p-16869591-cat-4289.html?main_attr=27_601&mallCode=1</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 11:14 AM Amanda Pfister (Roseville Public Library) via Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org" target="_blank">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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Our library has Early Literacy kits and STEM kits available for patrons to check out with some adult kits on the way. We were using zip ties as a means of locking the kits to deter patrons from using them in the library. This was working for the most part but
we had an incident the other day where a child opened multiple kits and the library staff had to spend a great deal of time finding the scattered pieces and putting the kits back together in the correct bags.</div>
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I was wondering if any other libraries have found a good way to have their kits displayed but still keeping them locked so patrons cannot use them until after checking them out. Our literacy kits are in clear plastic bags and our STEM kits are in clear plastic
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We don't have the space to keep them behind the counters and unfortunately with our youth desk being unmanned most of the time, we are worried that this may happen more often.</div>
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If anyone has any suggestions, please pass them along.</div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Jean Fellows</div><div dir="ltr">(she/hers)<br><div>Programming Coordinator</div><div>Grand Ledge Area District Library</div><div>131 E. Jefferson St.,</div><div>Grand Ledge, MI 48837</div><div>517-627-7014<br></div><div><br></div><div><i style="color:rgb(71,71,71);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">The Grand Ledge Area District Library is situated on ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples-- land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. For more information, see the article from Central Michigan University Library:<a href="https://blogs.cmich.edu/library/2019/11/26/the-1819-treaty-of-saginaw/#:~:text=In%20the%201819%20treaty%2C%20the,living%20on%20the%20ceded%20territory." target="_blank">https://blogs.cmich.edu/library/2019/11/26/the-1819-treaty-of-saginaw/#:~:text=In%20the%201819%20treaty%2C%20the,living%20on%20the%20ceded%20territory.</a></i><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>