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The first floor of the University of Alberta’s largest library was closed to students Friday so it could be treated for bed bugs, the university said.

Sharon Murphy, associate university librarian, said a student reported seeing a bed bug Monday on a backpack near a bank of public computers in the Rutherford Library.

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Murphy said staff immediately contacted the facility and operations department, which in turn contacted a pest control management company that brought in a canine detection unit.

They confirmed the presence of bed bugs in a cluster of about a dozen mesh chairs in a “small localized area.”

Those chairs were bagged and immediately removed, Murphy said.

“From that moment on, the company has following their regular procedures for dealing with bed bugs,” Murphy said.