Hello, everyone. As this pandemic keeps chugging along and the date at which we can safely re-open continues to get pushed further out, use of our online resources is surging. I realize that this isn't reaching everyone, though, so we are going to begin a delivery service. This is only for our materials, so we can't get you anything from other libraries. It's silly for all of our books, DVDs, etc. to be sitting with me in the Library when the most of the community is stuck at home, though.
Starting off, I am going to designate Thursday as delivery day, so we will deliver any items waiting for you on the hold shelf at some point during that day (let us know if that doesn't work for you). We want to avoid face to face interaction, so we'll leave your material on your door-step, knock on your door, and give you a reasonable amount of time to come get them before re-collecting them and moving on.
All items will be externally sanitized before delivery (we can't wipe down each individual page), and the delivery person will wear a mask and sanitize their hands after handling every delivery. At this point, everything has been quarantined in the Library for a month, so it hasn't been handled by any other patrons.
We're not even thinking about due dates at this point since we aren't accepting any returns, so nothing will be due until further notice. If you are the type of person who HAS to have a date, let's just say June 30. We'll make everything due June 30.
Here's how you can get books delivered.
- Go the the online catalog (mysfpl.org -> Services dropdown -> Borrowing -> C/W MARS Catalog) and place holds as usual BUT select "Douglas Simon Fairfield Public Library" instead of "All C/W MARS Libraries." We'll run the holds pull list as normal and collect everything we can from our stacks.
- Call us at 508-476-2695.
- Email me at jsnook@cwmars.org.
Thanks for Reading,
Justin Snook
