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Language Rich Library Environments add value to your customer’s library experience but they also add more “stuff” to your children’s section. I often get questions about how to keep centers in a library clean. The answer is three fold; encourage clean up, staff cleaning schedule and sanitization. Offer a stamp or sticker for kids who clean up their mess. We post signs around some of our more messy centers that encourage kids to clean up. After they clean up what they played with they can show the Librarian and get a stamp. Most children will do anything for a stamp or sticker. They are low cost and will save you and your staff a lot of cleaning. Clean up the area several times a day. All of our staff takes responsibility to clean up from the pages, to the circulation and reference staff to the security guard, everyone picks up...