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School Libraries Trashed in Illinois, FloridaTwo school libraries located hundreds of miles apart were vandalized in facility-wide rampages on the same Saturday night by what authorities believe to be area teens. The Shepard Junior High School Library Media Center in Deerfield, Illinois, suffered some $20,000 worth of damage January 31 when intruders "broke everything that was glass," including a dozen computers and ceiling-light fixtures. Luckily, new workstations that had still been in boxes the night of the incident were up and running, librarian Karen Davis told American Libraries. Books, however, were the main target of intruders who tore through the Volusia County (Fla.) School District's Southwestern Middle School library. According to Nancy Martin, VCSD's director of media services, "they literally turned over bookcases and pulled books off some of the shelves that were attached to the wall." By Monday, volunteers had reshelved almost all the volumes. No arrests have been made in either incident. Posted February 16, 1998. |
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