[AISLE-Share] Stinky Situation

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This sounds super weird, but get a bigplastic box or bin with a lid and
fill it halfway with kitty litter. Put the book in for a few days with the
lid on, and the smell should go away.

Tonya Tjarks
Twitter: @tonyatjarks
Library Media Specialist
Apollo School
Des Plaines, IL

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 2:47 PM Email list for the Association of Illinois
School Library Educators <aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I normally take smokey books home and hang them on the clothesline.   Wind
> and sunshine is the best for them.
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 2:33 PM Email list for the Association of Illinois
> School Library Educators <aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Advice please!  I'm not sure what to do about this.
>>
>> I have a 7th grade student whose parents must smoke entire tobacco fields
>> at once.  EVERY book he uses comes back wreaking of cigarette smoke.
>> Hardcover books are easier to clean or recover with Mylar, but paperbacks
>> are more difficult since I cover the paperbacks with Demco's Vistafoil
>> contact covering.  That stuff is near impossible to peel off and replace
>> without damaging the cover.  And even if I can clean the cover, the pages
>> still smell no matter what I try.
>>
>> I know it's not the student's fault, but this is the second year of me
>> trying to save these books.  I really consider these books damaged if I
>> can't
>>
>> Has anyone ever tried to contact a parent about this?  What have your
>> experiences been?  Please share!
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> *Amanda Kuzminski*
>> *Library Media Specialist*
>> Orland Junior High School
>> Orland Park, IL
>> 708-364-4214
>>
>>
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