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"And they've put libraries and used-book stores on notice that older books may have to be removed from the shelves until their ink can be tested. That's a heavy burden, especially for the nation's more than 116,000 public and school libraries struggling through recession-era budget shortages. And for what? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/health/diseases/u.s.-centers-for-disease-control-prevention-ORGOV000011.topic> told The Associated Press <http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/arts-culture/mass-media/news-media/associated-press-AUTOORNPR000041.topic> that lead-based ink in books poses little danger to children, rating the risk, on a scale of 1 to 10, as 0.5. That's because little Suzie will have to swallow the pages whole, lots of them, to actually expose her body to the relatively small amounts of lead there. Heard of any widespread problems with kids all too literally digesting their copies of Mother Goose?" http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edped252032509mar25,0,2944493.story _____________________________________ Patricia Sarles, MA, MLS Librarian Damrosch Day Treatment School NYC Department of Education 750 Jennings Street Bronx, NY 10459 voice: 718 378-0006 x2172 fax: 718 589-9544 p s a r l e s @ s c h o o l s . n y c . g o v http://damroschlibrary.blogspot.com/ http://robinhoodlibrarians.wikispaces.com "Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life." - Malcolm X "Some kids go to the library ... Others to the street. But they can't go to the libraries if the libraries are closed." - Officer Dombranski, NYPD "The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result." - Louis Sachar -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ --------------------------------------------------------------------