A spokesperson for the New York city Public Library system says that libraries may have to “quarantine” their books once the facilities, now shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, are allowed to reopen.
As Yahoo Finance reports, Tony Marx, the chief executive of the New York Public Library, says he is waiting for guidance from scientists and/or experts in the fields of public libraries on what to do about lending out books that could, theoretically anyway, be tainted with the virus.
“We may need to quarantine our books for that long to make sure that we’re not passing germs from one person to another. That’s something that you know, the experts in the world of libraries and science — they’re going to have to tell us,” Marx says.
The answer to that question rests at least partly on how long the virus can survive on cardboard, paper, and plastic, the three components of most library books.
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