Cleaning and Disinfecting Your Building and Collections
- IMLS’s REALM results: Research Shows Virus Undetectable on Five Highly Circulated Library Materials After Three Days (June 22, 2020)
- CDC’s Reopening Guidance for Cleaning and Disinfecting Public Spaces, Workplaces, Businesses, Schools, and Homes (updated 4/28/2020)
- CDC’s Cleaning Your Facility
- EPA List of Disinfectants
- “How to Sanitize Collections in a Pandemic” from American Libraries, 3/27/2020
- IMLS-hosted webinar, “Mitigating COVID-19 When Managing Paper-Based Circulating and Other Types of Collections”
- OSHA’s “Guidance for Preparing Workplaces for COVID-19“
- IMLS Announces COVID-19 Research Partnership
Resources and Tools for Reopening Plans
Resources:
- Reopening: Not “When?” But “How?” from American Libraries, 4/17/2020
- A Phased Reopening Plan for Libraries as COVID-19 Restrictions Are Lifted from Medium, 4/20/2020
- CDC’s Guidelines for Social Distancing
- CDC’s Guidelines for Face Coverings
- Guidelines: Opening Up America Again from the White House
- Sample Reopening Plans from Other States
Tools:
Other Resources
COVID-19 Isolation Order issued by the Mississippi State Department of Health
Governor Tate Reeves’s Proclamations and Executive Orders
- Executive Order 1516 (August 4, 2020)
- Executive Order 1495 (June 10, 2020)
- Executive Order 1492 (May 28, 2020)
- Executive Order 1491 (May 27, 2020)
- Executive Order 1480 (May 8, 2020)
- Executive Order 1477 (April 24, 2020)
- Executive Order 1473 (April 17, 2020)
- Executive Order 1466 (April 1, 2020)
- State of Emergency Declaration (March 14, 2020)
MLC/MLA’s Facebook group, Mississippi Library Support Resources
Getting Tested for COVID-19 from the Mississippi Department of Health