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Mobile Libraries coming out of Covid-19...

Posted By Sally Hardman, 09 June 2020
Afternoon everyone, hope all are well. We are fortunate in the Isle of Man to have had no new positive cases for almost three weeks, and our libraries were allowed to open from the 20th May (with 24 hours notice!). Public libraries are offering a range of services from collection points to restricted opening with social distancing in place, and we are trying to prepare to resume our Mobile Library service. So far we have managed to do 2 weeks of contactless doorstep deliveries of quarantined, cleaned books and audios, and are going to do this every 4 weeks until we can get our vehicle back on the road and have our borrowers come to us (it's hilarious trying to find some of the addresses - our road and house names can be difficult to say the least). What I'd like to know is - what is everyone else doing, what are you planning to do, and have you had access to any relevant information about screens etc on your vehicles? I appreciate that you will not be able to return to work until early July and even then it won't be an open to the public service in many cases. I know that UK libraries will have the benefit of their local authority H & S departments but we're a small charity run service with a small staff and as the only Mobile Library on the IOM looking for help from our Mobile family across the British Isles. Any answers or advice gratefully received. many thanks Sally

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