Any knitters?

Would you use something like that in a small, rural public
library or would you worry about cooties?

Frankly, if lice really is a concern, just washing the afghan between
use by patrons may not be enough, because you have to consider the
furniture itself

Ewwww!! I hadn't even thought about lice. We don't wipe the chairs down
between patrons, though.

We don't really have a homeless problem out where we are since there are
absolutely no services nearby for them to use. The bigger library downtown,
and the one in Ashland have homeless people, but we're too far out of town.

The way our library is designed, we can see each department from the circ.
desk so I would see if someone was going to walk off with it or carry it to
another section.

It just seems odd to me that the very same people who will sit in an
upholstered easy chair at Barnes & Noble, with the "bottom" of their lap in
full contact with a chair that several other people have been sitting in
would hesitate to put a yarn afghan on the "top" of their lap. :-)))

Right now, it is a chair decoration, but it's there if someone wants it.

Thanks for everyone's input.

Liz from Humbug

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:43:54 -0800, Liz Hampton
wrote:

It just seems odd to me that the very same people who will sit in an
upholstered easy chair at Barnes & Noble, with the "bottom" of their lap in
full contact with a chair that several other people have been sitting in
would hesitate to put a yarn afghan on the "top" of their lap. :-)))

Well, since I don't sit and read at B&N............ but seriously, if
I hadn't gone through what I did and for as long as I did, I wouldn't
have thought twice about fabric-upholstered chairs or afghans at my
library either. I think it's a very cozy and homey idea, just the
right touch for a reading room.


Jenn L.
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"Ruthie" wrote in message
k.net...
Liz Hampton wrote about whether bringing afghans to her library for
patrons to use was a good idea:

Would you use something like that in a small, rural public
library or would you worry about cooties? OH. This would be in the
adult
section of the library, on the opposite side of the building at the kids
section, so there is little likelihood of little people using it as a
hanky
for runny noses.

Liz, unless your library is a really small one in a really rural area -
so that you know all the patrons - I've gotta say no. Based on my
experience as a shelver on a large metro area.

1. Little ones do not spend all of their time in the children's section.
And the afghans would not necessarily *stay* in the adult section
either.

2. Your afghans might go home with someone, and not come back.
Especially since...

3. I just heard a radio station recommending that homeless folks go to
libraries to keep warm. That could indeed lead to cooties - the REAL
ones - and theft.


And of course we all know that only homeless people get lice and scabies and
only homeless people steal!



I've snipped the rest because, well, it really bothered me to read it!

Ann