Days after the Lincoln woman took a recipe book back to the Lincoln library on Superior Street, she received something in return.
A letter, and a cause for alarm.
“On 11/28/18, library staff discovered evidence of bed bugs in an item you returned to Eiseley Branch Library,” it began.
The letter instructed her to seal her remaining library items in plastic bags and return them to the counter for inspection. And it warned her she could be charged if library staff found more bed bug evidence and had to trash the items.
The woman was incredulous, and spoke to the branch manager, she wrote last month in a letter to the city.
“I asked how the library would know that the book had been contaminated at my home, or whether my home was at risk of contamination from the infestation problem at the library?”
A simple question — with a complicated answer that involves freezers and dogs, and dates to 2014.
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