{"id":17530,"date":"2017-08-04T13:13:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=17530"},"modified":"2017-08-04T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:13:15","slug":"book-car-wash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2017\/08\/04\/book-car-wash\/","title":{"rendered":"This library uses a tiny &#8216;car wash&#8217; to clean books! There&#8217;s no water, of course!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Check out this video from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BPLBoston\">Boston Public Library<\/a>! They have a cute little machine that dusts books. It looks like a tiny car wash! Of course, there&#8217;s no water&#8230;!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A behind-the-scenes look at how we remove dust from our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/books?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#books<\/a>. It&#39;s like a mini car wash for books, minus the water! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/libraries?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#libraries<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/booklovers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#booklovers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3xGI6ZEHVJ\">pic.twitter.com\/3xGI6ZEHVJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Public Library (@BPLBoston) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BPLBoston\/status\/855059133338406912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The library reports that it doesn&#8217;t use the book cleaning machine on rare books because they are too fragile. They also note, &#8220;We use the machine when we add books to our Archives Center or when materials from the stacks are requested for use or are being digitized.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nLearn about all the different &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/lj.libraryjournal.com\/2016\/11\/technology\/book-cleaning-product-spotlight\/#_\">Library Book Vacuum Systems<\/a>&#8221; over at <em>Library Journal<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this video from the Boston Public Library! They have a cute little machine that dusts books. It looks like a tiny car wash! Of course, there&#8217;s no water&#8230;! A behind-the-scenes look at how we remove dust from our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesome","category-cool","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17540,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17530\/revisions\/17540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}