I called around to a few libraries. According to the administrator of my hometown library, no book has enough lead in it to warrant concern. (Formaldehyde is another matter, but nobody's getting after that.) She believes the thrift shops which dumped their pre-1985 books were overreacting or possibly threatened. The local library said they weren't going to do anything since they have no kids' books printed before that date anyhow.

http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=1850
http://overlawyered.com/2009/03/cpsc-no-we-didnt-ask-libraries-to-pull-pre-1985-books/

M.N.

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It may be an issue for some more rural or less-well-moneyed libraries, unless they've already sold or recycled or dumped their older hardbacks. I'm thinking of the wonderful NC Wyeth covers and illustrations in the older adventure books, for instance.

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