School Librarian Corner: Dirty Books. No, Literally, Dirty Books

The other day I read a Facebook post from a fellow school librarian in the midst of an end-of-the-year inventory. This librarian said it gets kind of gross when you touch all the books in the library. Tell me about it. If you’ve ever handled a bunch of library books, you can probably identify. Your […]

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The other day I read a Facebook post from a fellow school librarian in the midst of an end-of-the-year inventory. This librarian said it gets kind of gross when you touch all the books in the library.

Tell me about it. If you’ve ever handled a bunch of library books, you can probably identify. Your hands don’t always end up looking dirty, per say, but it definitely feels like you’re wearing invisible germ-gloves and if you don’t wash them pretty soon you’re tempting fate. I’ve even joked about this in the past.

So I guess this post is asking two things:

1. Does this happen to you?

2. Do you ever do anything to de-germify books?

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