[Michlib-l] Bed Bug Prevention

[Jean Fellows]

I don't think we do anything to prevent per se.  We mostly
check incoming materials-- and I doubt that's done very rigorously.



On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 2:34 PM Susan Wess via Michlib-l <michlib-l at mcls.org>
wrote:

> I don’t know if there is a way to PREVENT bed bugs. We did switch to wood
> & hard plastic chairs.
>
> 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.
>
> Interested if there is a way to prevent them.
>
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> *From:* Michlib-l <michlib-l-bounces at mcls.org> on behalf of Kimberly
> Feltner via Michlib-l <michlib-l at mcls.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, October 27, 2023 2:16:16 PM
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> *Subject:* [Michlib-l] Bed Bug Prevention
>
> What is your library doing, if anything, for the prevention of Bed Bugs?
>
> 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* prevention* of Bed Bugs.
>
> Thank you!
> Kimberly
>
> --
> Kimberly Feltner
> Assistant Director
> Branch District Library
> 10 E. Chicago St.
> Coldwater, MI 49036
> Phone: (517) 278-2341 ext. 123
> Fax: (517) 278-2342
> http://www.BranchDistrictLibrary.org
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-- 
Jean Fellows
(she/hers)
Programming Coordinator
Grand Ledge Area District Library
131 E. Jefferson St.,
Grand Ledge, MI 48837
517-627-7014

*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: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.
<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.>*
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