Books are being steadily returned, quarantined and cleaned and we are preparing ourselves for curbside pickup next Tuesday. Already we are getting calls and emails and online reservations for items to be picked up next week. Curbside pickup hours will mirror the book return hours of 11-3pm Tuesday-Friday, with 11 to noon reserved for seniors and those with fragile health. Please contact us if you have any questions, comments, complaints, congratulations...
And an observation. While I embrace the wearing of masks, I must report on what a plague it is for the hearing impaired, a population among whom I number. Masks muffle voices and make lip reading impossible. I don't think I realized how much I relied on lip reading. I've heard that there are masks made with see-through material around the mouth. That just seems a bridge too far. I also envision it fogging up. Further, when one un-dons one's mask, it is considerably too easy to also unhook one's hearing aid. That would be an expensive mistake not to be made twice. I've made it more often than I like to admit. Enough of true confessions.
Finally, our mini community survey revealed that books are what people missed the most among our offerings (i.e. more than movies, audiobooks, computers, programs, social gathering). Of course I worry that our big computer users weren't answering the survey because...wait for it...they don't have computers. So we are considering an early phase of re-opening to be providing computer access by reservation. Details TBD: The majority of survey respondents said that they would be willing to return to the library this summer (with precautions like masks and hand sanitizer availability.)
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