Youth Services News FW: [EXT] Corona Virus

[Dekle, Deanne, DCA]

Good morning Youth Services staff!
I received the message below and thought I'd send it to the listserv and let you all comment about what you and your libraries are doing. Please feel free to reply to the whole list. 


Deanne Dekle
Youth Services & Outreach Consultant
New Mexico State Library
505-476-9705
1-800-340-3890
deanne.dekle at state.nm.us




Hi, Deanne. I just want to reach out and start a conversation about how libraries are approaching cautionary measures from corona virus. 
Libraries as we know are  touchy feely places with all our check out resources that pass from hand to hand and home to home. Additionally our library has a lot of options for kiddos. We have toys, building blocks etc. I am mostly just wondering if we can exchange some strategies for decreasing vulnerability to this new virus.

Here are some things I've been doing:

Cleaning the toys
whipping down kids computers
putting up a few signs to encourage parents to encourage kids to wash hands before and after library use

I don't mean to be paranoid, but its pretty clear to see that libraries and children's sections are high use and the type of environment worthy of concern.

Anyway, I'd love to hear about what other precautions are being taken at libraries.