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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had bed bugs when I was a grad student. I quarantined my library books in my work office for a year and then returned them. One was an inter library loan that was recalled. I tried to explain to a librarian about the bed bugs and why I had put the book in my work office on campus for so long. She didn't care and I was charged a lot of money. While I did the right thing for the university library (my home one and the lending one), if i had known a bonehead university librarian would have been such a jerk about me keeping bed bugs out of the library, I would have saved my self hundreds in library fines and returned the darn book. I don't trust library books after this because while I did the right thing, it is up the library to take care of their books.[/quote]

Librarian here--it was not your university librarian who was the "bonehead" it was the librarian at the other end of the interlibrary loan. If they both knew the book had bedbugs, the librarian at the other library that the book came from should have stopped charging fees. Sounds like they didn't, so the university charged you.

I don't really worry about library books that much. The only place I have encountered bed bugs in the DC area is in a clothing store dressing room. Will never use a carpeted room to try on anything again. Thank goodness bugs love to bite me and I react fast, so I knew what happened before I brought the clothes I bought into the house. [/quote]

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