<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I don't think we do anything to prevent per se. We mostly check incoming materials-- and I doubt that's done very rigorously.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 2:34 PM Susan Wess 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">
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<div>I don’t know if there is a way to PREVENT bed bugs. We did switch to wood & hard plastic chairs. </div>
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<div>For quite a few years we were having a semi annual bed bug sniffing dog out to check the facility. The company changed hands & they no longer offer that service. <span></span></div>
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<div>What is your library doing, if anything, for the prevention of Bed Bugs? <br>
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<div>After talking to several pest companies today and being told different things from each, I would like to know if anyone in library land has a solid action plan for the<i> prevention</i> of Bed Bugs.
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<div>Thank you! <br>
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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>