Posted on 04/10/2021 6:18:00 AM PDT by tellw
Libraries play an important role in our communities and this is a week to celebrate it. It's National Library Week! Justin Silverman with the Anderson Public Library talks about how they've managed the pandemic and provided books to people.
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Is anyone allowed to walk the stacks of their public library anywhere yet?
Yes, I can. Middle Tennessee.
Not the Library of Congress. The communist junta has it walled off behind concertina wire and guarded by troops inside the Iron Curtain of the illegally occupied Capitol.
That is because we have an illegitimate tyrannical putsch underway, and people are no longer free to read nor think.
Not in Oregon...
Back in the 70s and 80s, I spent many happy hours at the central library in Portland. The stacks were open to the public, and I enjoyed lots of less-known books that weren’t displayed out on the reading-room shelves. Not too many years after that, the stacks had been closed to browsing, since the homeless had taken to using them as toilets.
They opened our public libraries for browsing on February 25th (Jackson County, MO) after almost a year of being closed. There is a librarian sitting near the front telling everyone who enters to wear their mask, stay 6 feet apart, and only browse for 90 minutes (per day).
I think they still quarantine the returned books for either 72 or 120 hours to kill the CCP germs. 🤣
Public library in my County in SE VA (Southhampton) is and has been open for a number of months.
Our local library in San Angelo Texas been open throughout the pandemic. It has also provided curbside service and other staff, facility protective measures to consistenely serve the public. Good on them.
Ours are in TN...
Are there any library boards not dominated by liberals?
Here in Mesa, Arizona, we can go in our libraries and browse. They’re limiting the number of people allowed in at one time but during the week that’s no problem. And of course they enforce mask wearing and remind folks to social distance. But it’s not bad considering what it sounds like some of the rest of you have to put up with.
But might be shut down Monday if the witches in Lansing have their way.
My daughter is a professional librarian at a medical school in Las Vegas and, yes, the library culture is HEAVILY liberal and in places hard-core Leftist. Our local library system here in Mesa is a little more on the conservative side and seem to be open-minded. No drag Queen hours and nonsense like that. If you request that they stock a particular Conservative-leaning best seller, they have no problem doing it.
Yes in SC. Ours have been open for a while.
My wife is a senior librarian in Oakland...they are still doing curbside pickup with plans to reopen in a limited capacity on April 17, up to full capacity in June. I don’t think that is going to happen this summer.
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