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Post lockdown book quarantine at Richmond Library

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DescriptionDuring the first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, all Tasman District Library buildings were closed, as were the after-hours book return bins. Customers held on to their library items over the lockdown and due dates were automatically extended until the library reopened. When library staff were allowed back into the building and customers were able to return their library items, there was an influx of returns.12,493 books and other items were returned to Richmond Library during the last two weeks of May. The library was also quarantining all books that were returned for several days, as there were fears at that time that Covid could spread on surfaces like books. The Richmond Library's Constance Barnicoat meeting room was put into service as a quarantine store. Normally seating 50 people, the room very quickly filled with book returns. This photograph shows the adult fiction, and some of the children's book returns. Each shelf has a sticky note showing the date that items on that shelf could be released from quarantine.CreatorKaryn McLintockDate21 May 2020Subject/KeywordCOVID-19Community facilitiesRichmond (N.Z.)

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