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I'd better warn my married kids to check the status of their babyproofing. (joke)

 

I shudder to think what would happen if we had to remove all books published prior 
to 1985 from our shelves.

 

A book is like a little room you can carry around with you, and anytime you need 
to, you can slip in there and get away from it all.--Diane Stanley, The Mysterious 
Matter of I.M. Fine

 

Basya Karp, Librarian

Shulamith High School and Shulamith School For Girls

Brooklyn, New York

basyak10@hotmail.com
 
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:29:31 -0400
> From: marsharedd@HOTMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: Lead in old books
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> 
> Exactly, Darlene. The best baby proofing is usually keeping an eye on 
> the kids. I shudder to think how lucky I am that my son never choked 
> on toilet seat attachments. lol
> 
> 
> Marsha Redd, Librarian
> Kelloggsville High School
> Grand Rapids, MI
> marsharedd@hotmail.com
> 
> Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone is a 
> student. Everyone is a teacher.
> 
> On Jul 13, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Darlene Yasick wrote:
> 
> >
> > Amen to what Marsha said. I often wonder how those of us over 40 
> > grew up at all considering how little we knew about what could hurt 
> > us mentally and physically! I practically grew up living in the 
> > local library and still seem to have most of my faculties. Watched a 
> > tv show on baby proofing a house the other day - among other things 
> > they suggested that you take off the little covers that hold on the 
> > toilet seat ( could be pried off and swallowed) and a whole list of 
> > other things that I had in my house as my five grew up. Most 
> > stitches came from running into each other or stationary objects. 
> > They grew up with tons of pre 1985 books and have done more than 
> > quite well for themselves academically. Seem like we ought to worry 
> > about real health threats. I wonder how much time you would have to 
> > spend with or chewing on books ( who is watching you) before you 
> > cause damage??? Sorry - retirement is making me cranky!
> > Darlene Yasick
> > Media Specialist Retired (lib027yas@global.net
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Marsha Redd <marsharedd@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Marsha Redd <marsharedd@HOTMAIL.COM>
> >> Subject: Re: [LM_NET] Lead in old books
> >> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> >> Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 10:34 AM
> >> I don't plan on doing anything, and
> >> personally, I hope the government does not decide to
> >> legislate that we do something. Given the fact that most of
> >> us have grown up with books older than the 80's and don't
> >> appear to have suffered ill effects, I find the whole thing
> >> ridiculous. If they want to put out a warning so that
> >> parents don't let their children eat or chew on old books,
> >> that's fine. But requiring libraries to take them off the
> >> shelves would be outrageous in my opinion.
> >>
> >>
> >> Marsha Redd, Librarian
> >> Kelloggsville High School
> >> Grand Rapids, MI
> >> marsharedd@hotmail.com
> >>
> >> Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process.
> >> Everyone is a student. Everyone is a teacher.
> >>
> >> On Jul 13, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Shonda Brisco wrote:
> >>
> >>> You probably shouldn't be doing anything at all at
> >> this time since the jury
> >>> is out on what libraries can or must do regarding this
> >> new legislation. The
> >>> CPSIA (Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act) can be
> >> found here:
> >>> http://www.cpsc.gov/cpsia.pdf
> >>>
> >>> The American Library Association has information about
> >> how they are working
> >>> with the Consumer Product Safety counsel on
> >> this. You can read about it
> >>> here:
> >>> 
>http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/wo/woissues/governmentinfo/cpsia/cpsia.cfm
> >>>
> >>> On June 9, 2009, the following was posted on the ALA
> >> District Dispatch site:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> "Currently, the Commission is not imposing penalties
> >> under the new standards
> >>> for most books. The Commission has been
> >> presented with evidence by the
> >>> publishing industry and others that so-called
> >> “ordinary books” as
> >>> manufactured under present standards do not contain
> >> lead. This evidence has
> >>> been provided so that publishers and distributors of
> >> ordinary children’s
> >>> books might be granted an exemption from the testing
> >> requirements in the
> >>> CPSIA. Today’s meeting is one in a series of
> >> sessions on this topic."
> >>> [More available at the link below:]
> >>>
> >>> http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/index.php?s=CPSIA
> >>>
> >>> Basically the lead content in books is very small and
> >> is not considered to
> >>> be harmful. As a result, ALA is hoping to have
> >> libraries and their books
> >>> exempted from the process of eliminating anything with
> >> lead content. To
> >>> stay up-to-date on this issue, bookmark the ALA
> >> District Dispatch website
> >>> and watch for any new information that might come from
> >> meetings on this
> >>> topic.
> >>>
> >>> (In the meantime, don't toss your books!!)
> >> *grin*
> >>>
> >>> ~Shonda
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --Shonda Brisco
> >>> Assistant Professor / Curriculum Materials Librarian
> >>> Mary L. Williams Curriculum Materials Library
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