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The library's Head of Technology, Chris Jelley, used the library's 3D printer to create face shields for hospital workers.
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Laura Hasset, in blue, and her co-workers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in Rockville Centre sported the face shields.
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North Merrick Public Library patron Columbia Ciccimarro helped deliver face shields to health care workers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in Rockville Centre.
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Although the North Merrick Public Library is temporarily closed to the community, its technological resources are hard at work to assist hospital workers and scientific researchers fighting to keep the public healthy in the age of Covid-19.
Head of Technology Chris Jelley used the library's 3D printer to create face shields for hospital workers. Jelley has hand-delivered a dozen face shields to both Plainview Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in Rockville Centre.
Additionally, North Merrick resident Columbia Ciccimarro told the library that a group of nurses at Sloan Kettering were in need of face shields after their department was reassigned to Covid placements. They were given face shields, as well.
The library's industrial-quality 3D printer can make face shields that meet CDC specifications. Each shield takes approximately three and a half hours to make, and each roll of filament can produce eight to 10 shields.
The library has also donated the computational ability its computers to scientists conducting Covid-19-related research. A special software was installed on some of the computers to support the Folding@home project initiative, a global network of research computers aimed at developing new therapies to a variety of diseases by the means of simulating protein dynamics.
Although the Covid-19 crisis has been challenging, using the library's resources to help combat the disease and assist in keeping health care workers safe is of the utmost importance to the Board of Trustees.
Provided by North Merrick Public Library; compiled by Alyssa Seidman.
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